The future leaves
signals in time.

Research teams at NASA's Glenn Research Center are developing theory and software to predict aircraft engine noise, helping engineers design and analyze new and improved propulsion systems. Copies of the software can be requested from NASA's Software Catalog.

Research teams at NASA's Glenn Research Center conduct experiments in world-class facilities, including the 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory, the Small Hot Jet Acoustic Rig, the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig, the DGEN AeroPropulsion Research Turbofan, and the Acoustical Testing Laboratory.

The four crew members of NASA's simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation inside a confined habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

According to Scientific American, a spacecraft is launching today on the first mission to travel to the Mars system and return with samples. The report notes the mission must first get through the launch itself.

Per Ars Technica, a Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota, leaving debris in a farmer's cornfield. All evidence points to the debris being part of a Zhuque-2E rocket.

Allison Mjoen, NASA's operations manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, helped shape the systems and ground operations that will one day support human return missions. She and her family watched with awe and pride as supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage and NASA's SLS rocket roared to life.

NASA will play an important role in JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which aims to characterize Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos, determine their origin, and deliver a sample, building on NASA's long history of exploring the Red Planet. The provided context does not include further details.

NASA satellites are observing the El Niño event unfolding in fall 2026, which the headline calls historic. El Niño is a natural climate pattern that emerges roughly every two to seven years and is marked by warmer-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the equatorial Pacific; NASA scientists are tracking it closely.

NASA says roll-out solar arrays have boosted the International Space Station's power supply, with the augmentation carried out over the past five years. From about 250 miles above Earth, solar power supports the station's life support systems, daily activities and hundreds of research investigations.

Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket has seen its first launch delayed again amid difficulties with carbon composites. The rocket was announced in 2021 with an initial target of a first flight in 2024.

In a SpaceNews episode, Mike Gruss speaks with NASA's Shatel Bhakta, principal systems engineer for Moon Base, about what is needed between now and 2028 and the incremental steps toward a moon base. The item is a brief episode description with limited further detail.

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and returned them safely to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the lunar surface. NASA says additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield confirmed initial data showing it performed as expected.

Agile Space Industries, a leading provider of in-space chemical propulsion solutions, has expanded into the Seattle metropolitan area by opening a new office in Bellevue, Washington.

According to WIRED, a scientist on NASA's Artemis III mission shared what to expect from the agency's next lunar mission. Per the report, the voyage — though scaled back from initial plans of landing — will serve as a dress rehearsal for when humans return to the moon's surface.

NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the Moon's South Pole, where nighttime temperatures plunge extremely low, to support humanity's return to the Moon. The effort addresses the fact that standard batteries do not perform well in extreme cold.

European thermal-imagery company constellr has been working with Space Inventor on its next generation of satellites, with some key spacecraft details still undetermined when the collaboration began. The article explores how mini-constellations could more quickly bring new technology to Europe and to orbit.

Members of NASA's Perseverance Mars mission team gathered in the Mars Yard at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a Guinness World Records certificate marking the rover's distance record on the Red Planet. The team's twin, OPTIMISM, was positioned in front of them.