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August 25, 2026

On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, Louisiana state leaders and SpaceX executives scheduled an 11:00 a.m. press conference to unveil a formal agreement establishing new launch infrastructure and aerospace…

From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work…

From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work…

Magellan's side-looking radar reached through an enormous skylight beside Nyx Mons, revealing a laterally continuing void best explained as a lava tube. The post In 1994, after mapping 98% of Venus…

A flurry of activity has been underway at the Starbase production site over the past… The post Starbase’s future production capacity ramping up appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026.

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space, including solar wind and space weather. Here's why it…

Startup Revolv Space has delivered to Blue Canyon Technologies the four SARA Nano flight models, the systems that will orient the solar panels of the two CubeSats […] The article…

The NASA-led Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on 30 August 2026 at 07:26 EDT / 12:26 BST / 13:26 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. With its wide field of view…

NASA’s Great Observatories were intended to peer at the universe in different wavelengths: the Hubble Space Telescope in visible light, the Compton Gamma Ray in gamma rays, the Chandra X-ray…
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What makes NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope a powerful tool with an unprecedented wide view of the cosmos? NASA engineers who designed, built, and tested Roman pop the hood to explain the…

Recently, the Perseverance rover witnessed two notable astronomical events in the Martian sky: the transit of Phobos across the Sun and, more surprising still, the occultation of Earth by the…

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk at 8:27 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on…

No GPS? No problem. A team of NASA satellites are extending their stay in space after successfully proving out navigation by other means.

NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT and last about…
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A researcher at Kyoto University says the technique had only ever been tested on numbers a computer generated. He has now run it 19 times on public Starlink data and checked the answer against two…

President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to all four members of NASA’s Artemis II crew during a ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The…
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A spent rocket stage has punched a new crater into the Moon, giving scientists a rare chance to watch lunar geology unfold almost in real time. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photographed…

US President Donald Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission during a ceremony scheduled for August 28…
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NASA technicians have completed launch preparations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Last Friday they encapsulated the observatory inside the rocket's payload fairing…
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Aviación Digital.- The growing energy and infrastructure demand of artificial intelligence is leading SpaceX to explore an alternative that until recently belonged to the realm…

The post APOD: 2026 August 25 – Earth’s Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses appeared first on NASA Science .

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk today (Aug. 25) to replace a space-to-ground-antenna on the International Space Station. Here's how to watch live.

This life cycle — launch, operation and reentry — is as crucial as deployment itself for the sustainability of space. The Starlink 17-50 mission, though routine in its execution, marks…
August 24, 2026

A NASA-led team hopes to take a shortcut to direct imaging of extrasolar Earth-like planets. The idea is to use what they call a hybrid telescope composed of an orbital starshade coupled with the…

Welcome | Organizers | Events | Presentations | Meet the ExoGuides | Meet the ExoExplorers The post Call for ExoGuide Nominations appeared first on NASA Science .
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On August 30, 2026, NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, with a field of view a hundred times larger than Hubble's. Lightweight mirror, unprecedented optical architecture…

Rocket launches this week On Monday, Aug. 24, state-owned firm, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), is targeting 11:20 p.m. EDT for a Long March 6C launch from the Taiyuan…

Washington State University researchers used artificial intelligence to find a more efficient, less expensive way to 3D-print a high-performance metal alloy, saving researchers from needing to…

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.