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August 26, 2026
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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Artemis IV will put people on the moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years. NASA research reveals the microbes that might hitch a ride.
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SpaceX's last planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida created a memorable sight for folks hundreds of miles away — a glowing "jellyfish" high in the sky.
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California's central coast.
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Here's a rundown of all the major parts of NASA's Roman Space Telescope launching Aug. 30.
A NASA-led Nature analysis found that measurement uncertainty probably created the apparent ceiling in Earth's polar geomagnetic response; after calibration, the response remained linear. The post…
SpaceX plans to invest at least USD100 billion in a new spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast designed to support thousands of Starship flights a The post SpaceX plans USD100 billion Louisiana…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon successfully completed US EVA-98 at 20:57 CEST on Tuesday 25 August. It was Sophie’s second spacewalk, and the 32nd conducted by a European…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon completed US EVA-98 on Tuesday 25 August at 20:57 CEST. It was the second spacewalk by…
Flight controllers on the ground have already confirmed that the newly installed antenna has good power and data transmission, and will continue testing overnight to ensure…
The exploration of the universe will enter a new stage with the arrival of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a NASA mission designed to observe regions of the cosmos with coverage…
The North American aerospace company SpaceX unveiled on Tuesday its project to build a spaceport in Louisiana, from where it plans to launch its giant Starship rocket and…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- On August 25, 2026, two astronauts completed outside the International Space Station a delicate repair that had been left unfinished a week earlier…
Curiosity’s hand-sized polygons resemble ancient wet-dry cracks elsewhere in Gale Crater, but NASA is testing several other origins before assigning this vast fracture field a water history. The…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot completed their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) this…
NASA has selected the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions (OCO-2 and OCO-3) starting this autumn. Both OCO-2, a satellite…
NASA's Deep Space Network center in California celebrates the addition of a new 34-metre-wide radio frequency antenna to its communications and navigation…
"The speed of the project, the buzz and the pomp make it all very questionable." In response, Shotwell said SpaceX plans to keep much of the site undeveloped and that…
SpaceX has announced plans to construct a new Starship processing and launch complex in Louisiana designed to support thousands of launches annually. Located in Vermilion Parish, the proposed…
NASA Deep Space Network logs show that a distant observer on the Earth–Mars line would have occupied one of humanity's Martian uplink beams 77 percent of the time from 2005 through 2024. The post…
The post APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST Images The Lion’s Head Nebula appeared first on NASA Science .
SpaceX has unveiled plans for “Starbase, Louisiana,” described as the largest private spaceport in the… The post Starbase, Louisiana: The Largest Private Spaceport in the World appeared first on…
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SpaceX and Louisiana have announced a 125,000-acre Starship campus targeting a first flight in 2029, but its $100 billion full-buildout plan and thousands-per-year capacity still depend on vehicle…
Webb's MIRI spectrum identifies molecular water and oxygen-rich silicates around IRS 3, while projected geometry and the dust-production inference require careful separation. The post NASA’s James…
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The instrument is scheduled to launch on August 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket…
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August 25, 2026
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The facility will be built in Vermilion Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and is expected to become the company's largest space operations center The post SpaceX to invest R$514 billion in…
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation…
The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:34 a.m. PDT (5:34 a.m. EDT / 0934 UTC).
SpaceX announced plans today to build a second Starbase, this one on the coast of Louisiana. All Starship launches to date have been from Starbase, TX. They will soon begin […]
