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August 27, 2026
NASA climate simulations keep an assumed early Venus ocean temperate for almost three billion years, but competing models and atmospheric chemistry challenge whether that ocean ever formed. The post…
August 26, 2026
The decompression sickness that kills deep-sea divers has a spacewalk equivalent—and it nearly killed test subjects before NASA figured out how to stop it. The post Before every spacewalk…
On August 26, 2026, U.S.-based defense technology company Palladyne AI Corp. and Ukrainian-Estonian drone autonomy developer NORDA Dynamics announced a formal partnership to integrate their software…
Ad ASTRA Community Workshop: Virtual Registration Available Until 31 August 2026. The post Ad ASTRA Community Workshop: Virtual Registration Available appeared first on NASA Science .
At the heart of this next-gen space telescope lies the parts of old spy satellites.
NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, which will map billions of galaxies, creating a “Google Maps” of the Universe. The post NASA to launch Roman…
Petabytes of data from the Event Horizon Telescope were too large for the internet and had to be physically flown to Germany and the US.
These problem sets from Space Math at NASA include a total of 35 math problems for students K-12. Using real NASA data students apply mathematical reasoning and data analysis to understanding…
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SpaceX is set to acquire around 500 km² of land on "Pecan Island," a stretch of Gulf coast in southern Louisiana. The $100 billion project would make Louisiana one of the…
A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist published the arithmetic of orbital computing in April: one megawatt needs 5,640 square meters of solar array and 2,500 square meters of radiator, and…
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NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the…
After inaugurating the second Starship system launch pad at Starbase, Boca Chica (Texas), SpaceX plans to bring three additional launch pads into service in Florida, one within the complex of…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reached the pinnacle — so far — of its 14-year-old mission on Aug. 26, 2026, when it marked an elevation gain of 1 kilometer in its journey from Gale Crater on Mars up…
During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing…
NASA’s Planetary Exploration Science Technology Office (PESTO) was created by the Planetary Science Division to recommend non-mission specific, non-nuclear investments in planetary technology; to…
<p><span style="background-color: #2b00fe; color: white;">And photographs a solar eclipse just one day after the one that occurred on Earth. The rover Perseverance has photographed from Mars an…
NASA Small Business Supplier Development Program How to Apply Applying to the NASA Small Business Supplier Development Program is a collaborative process that begins with identifying both the mentor…
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SpaceX will invest $100 billion in a gigantic space complex in Louisiana. This Starbase is meant to host thousands of Starship launches and support the ambition of…
NASA launches the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this Sunday (30), set to revolutionize the study of the Universe – watch live with Olhar Digital. The post NASA launches the Nancy Grace…
NASA Small Business Supplier Development Program 10X Credit Pilot Program For new Mentor‑Protégé Agreements beginning on or after October 1, 2026, NASA is launching its 10X Credit Pilot Program to…
NASA Small Business Supplier Development Program Revitalization Initiative As part of our revitalization initiative, we transformed the Mentor‑Protégé Agreement (MPA) application process into a…
A proposed Titan rain-splash mechanism uses two organic-coated interfaces to close a hydrocarbon droplet into a bilayer compartment, but every critical step remains testable. The post Rainstorms on…
Keith’s note: According to this settlement META just settled a $17 billion lawsuit with some online rules for younger users. This was inevitable. As NASA expands its use of social […] The post How…
Sun-reflecting space mirrors proposed by U.S. startup Reflect Orbital will have an even more devastating effect on the night sky around the world than previously thought, a study has found.
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Gwynne Shotwell joined Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday to announce a high-cadence launch site for future Starship operations. The post SpaceX Announces New Starbase, Louisiana Spaceport…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 blooms into a twilight “space jellyfish” over southern New Jersey.
NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA…
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