NASA Names Sean Gallagher as Chief Information Officer
Official NASA portrait of Sean Gallagher Credit: NASA NASA has selected Sean Gallagher as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). In this role, he is responsible for the agency’s entire…
June 2026
CSDA Selects Eight Commercial Satellite Data Providers for On-Ramp 2 Contract Awards
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced contract awards with eight commercial satellite data providers offering a range of data types to support the agency’s Earth science research and…
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth…
NASA Awards Solutions for Federal Enterprise Procurement Contracts
Credit: NASA NASA will begin processing the awards of multiple contracts for the Solutions for Enterprise‑wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-wide Acquisition Contract. The contract provides streamlined access to commercial products…
NASA Sounding Rocket to Launch Student Experiments
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the agency’s…
400 gold coins help crack a centuries-old shipwreck mystery
Researchers have officially solved a shipwreck mystery that has plagued historians for nearly 30 years—the identity of a ship discovered off the southern coast of England in 1995. The ship…
NASA Invites Media to Botswana Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
Credit: NASA The Republic of Botswana will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 25, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt…
Lion undergoes double cataract surgery
Cataracts are a common eye condition marked by a cloudy lens that can be extracted fairly easily. For humans, anyway. But on June 12th, the patient on the operating table…
6 animal fathers who go the distance
In the animal kingdom, fatherhood exists on a spectrum. Some species like grizzly bears or lions will leave after mating and never really interact with their offspring again. Others do…
Why only humans sleepwalk
It’s like something out of an old-school Looney Tunes cartoon: a gorilla, sound asleep and snoring in his nest high in a tree, suddenly stands up and takes a few…