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August 8, 2026
The Aug. 12 eclipse won't rival 2024's Great American Eclipse, but millions across the U.S. and Canada will still see the moon take a bite out of the sun.
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August 7, 2026
The Department of War has published the fifth release of data regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, said: “Today, the Department of War is…
On Aug. 6, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded a 6-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Meir and Menon successfully completed their primary objective…
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The spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has struck the Moon, illustrating the hazard posed by debris in cislunar space. This problem will increase as launches to orbit and to the Moon…
Erich Hernandez-Baquero will take over military space acquisition; Roger Mason will lead the National Reconnaissance Office The post Senate installs new chiefs for U.S. military space acquisition…
SpaceX plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to do much of the heavy lifting, Elon Musk said on Tuesday (Aug. 4) during SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call.
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SpaceX is still towing Starship's upper stage toward shore two weeks after its latest test flight, but the unprecedented effort is unlikely to succeed, according to Elon Musk.
NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments after a power reduction operation performed in interstellar space.
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European satellite operator Eutelsat reported strong growth in its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) business segment during the 2026-2027 fiscal year, according to its 2025-2026 full year fiscal report issued…
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The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs saving, too —and teams are making progress on that front.
Before astronauts return to the lunar surface through NASA's Artemis programme, the hardware they depend on must prove it can survive the Moon's unforgiving environment…
While a SpaceX rocket smashes into the Moon and a rescue mission runs into trouble, a new bill may provide hope for science research.
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in…
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between…
On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars ended its epic and historic mission to the Red Planet. Here's why it mattered.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing ground-penetrating radar technology to look for subsurface frozen water on Mars. Red Planet rotorcraft would be outfitted a flexible, fabric-based antenna…
Meterorite ALH 84001 fell to Earth from Mars about 13,000 years ago, landing in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica. It was discovered in 1984 and taken to the Johnson Space Center, where in 1994…
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On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 06:35 UTC, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket struck the Moon at 2.43 kilometers per second […]
South Korea's lunar orbiter Danuri has captured the effects on the Moon of the impact of SpaceX's rocket upper stage
Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space…
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Blue Origin has traced New Glenn's May static-fire explosion to a main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines, confirmed by hardware recovery and hotfire testing, with return-to-flight targeted…
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3 pm EDT. It was Menon's first spacewalk and the sixth…
New animations from NASA’s PREFIRE mission reveal two years of seasonal temperature swings at the Arctic and Antarctic.
When NASA's three 'SkyFall' helicopters rise into the Martian sky, one of their tasks will be searching for frozen water using ground-penetrating radar — a vital…
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