NASA supports the Genesis Mission, a national initiative to advance the use of artificial intelligence to address complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery.
President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching the Genesis Mission” on November 24, 2025, creating a national mission to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The mission is led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and has now expanded to more than 15 federal agencies as part of a government-wide initiative. NASA is exploring how its missions, data and expertise can support national science and technology challenges and contribute to the development of the powerful AI tools envisioned by the Genesis mission. This will open the door to faster breakthroughs, new knowledge and discoveries that will benefit the American people and help unravel some of the world’s greatest mysteries.
“America has invested for generations in the data, missions and technical expertise that make NASA one of the world’s greatest engines of discovery,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “The Genesis mission is an opportunity to transform this foundation into faster science, stronger engineering and better mission outcomes. By leveraging our relationships with cross-agency colleagues, NASA can advance AI tools that accelerate exploration, strengthen American leadership in space and open new paths to understanding our planet and the universe. Likewise, NASA is committed to applying our research and development to other initiatives across government for the benefit of American taxpayers.”
NASA has launched new Genesis Mission National Science and Technology Challenges that focus on two key priorities: strengthening American superiority in space and ushering in a new era of innovation driven by the agency’s more than 70 years of science and engineering.
To operate safely in a space environment that is becoming more crowded and dynamic every year, and to maintain America’s leadership in space, NASA must develop advanced systems faster than traditional engineering methods allow. These systems must work reliably together across spacecraft, communications, logistics, surface operations and other mission capabilities. By combining NASA’s mission expertise with the Department of Energy’s computing and AI capabilities, the Genesis mission can shorten the path from concept to operational readiness and strengthen America’s ability to operate and lead in space.
NASA will also explore how AI can enable new discoveries from more than 150 petabytes of data collected over decades of missions and research. NASA’s telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers, and aerospace programs have created extraordinary records about the Earth, the solar system, and the universe, but the scale and complexity of these archives make it difficult to study each observation using traditional methods. Advanced AI tools could help scientists link data from different missions, instruments, simulations and research areas, identify patterns that would otherwise remain hidden, improve predictions and reveal new discoveries in data that may already have been studied. By transforming NASA’s mission archives into engines of discovery, the Genesis mission can increase the return on generations of American investments in space and strengthen research across a broad range of scientific fields.
As the Genesis mission advances, NASA remains committed to leveraging its decades of scientific and mission data and engineering capabilities to accelerate new innovations and discoveries.
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