NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Technicians in white cleanroom suits watch as a crane lowers a lunar lander into a large thermal vacuum chamber at JPL

Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL’s Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lander has passed vibration, acoustic, electromagnetic and thermal vacuum tests at NASA's JPL ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch to the lunar south pole. NASA's account gives no test

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Artist's concept of a banded red and purple brown dwarf against a starry sky and the Milky Way

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

NASA's SPHEREx telescope measured 37 nearby brown dwarfs and found water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane. The best models still struggle through the cloudy transition, and thousands more objects are waiting

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Waxing Gibbous moon phase September 21 2026 at 75% illumination — NASA JPL skywatching guide

Moon Phase Today, September 21, 2026: Waxing Gibbous at 75% as the Harvest Moon Approaches

Tonight's moon is a Waxing Gibbous at 75% illumination, rising at 4:37 p.m. Eastern and staying up past midnight. The Harvest Moon — the Full Moon nearest the autumnal equinox — arrives

September 21, 2026

Astrology·News