NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on long-duration Moon and Mars missions.

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

You don’t need to be an astronaut or spend a dime to take part in NASA’s next historic journey around the Moon. As anticipation grows for the 2026 Artemis II mission, the space agency is quietly compiling a digital manifest that will fly alongside the crew,

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government leadership with commercial innovation to make what is impossible today rapidly implementable in the future," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in the statement.

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon.

If the U.S. is serious about returning astronauts to the moon before China, NASA must act immediately and decisively. That starts not with new slogans or incremental adjustments, but with ground truth, an integrated plan and governance reform designed for speed and accountability.