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August 25, 2026
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Instrument Concept Assessments (HWO-ICA) program element D.9 of ROSES-25, solicits proposals to support maturation of the HWO mission concept. The objective of…
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Latam Airlines will invest more than US$25 million to install multi-orbit satellite connectivity on more than 60 Airbus and Embraer aircraft
The ancient Persian religion that may have shaped heaven, hell, and redemption across three major faiths remains almost unknown in the West. The post Zoroastrianism, born in ancient Persia more than…
Astronomers have a problem. The comets in our solar system formed some 4.5 billion years ago in its frigid outer regions, beyond the current orbit of Jupiter. These “dirty snowballs” naturally…
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Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco's flag carrier, signed an agreement with Starlink to bring satellite broadband internet to its entire fleet. With this decision, the…
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…
A restless Earth-facing sunspot has been firing off a barrage of powerful solar flares — and now a CME could be heading our way.
On August 25, 2026, at the SmallSat conference in Logan, Utah, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) detailed its role delivering Integrated Mission Services (IMS) as the primary ground and…
A parasite living in your brain may be subtly reshaping your personality, making you bolder, riskier, and less cautious than you'd otherwise be. The post A single-celled parasite carried by cats…
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 team of researchers identified a super-Earth, called GJ 887 d, in its star's habitable zone. The post Potentially habitable super-Earth discovered…
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 .
Space Angel has welcomed its selection by the Western Australian Government as the recipient of the $1.75 million Spaceport Establishment Support Grant, announced by Science and Innovation Minister…
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…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026.
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…
A new study suggests that Earth's magnetosphere might not be enough to protect us from the Sun's solar storms. Although it poses no direct risk to life itself, it…
Tony Hallas from Foresthill, California The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946), a face-on spiral about 25 million light-years away straddling Cepheus and Cygnus, has produced ten known supernovae since…
Three specimens, one of them intact, came out of two hand pumps in Bihar in January 2025. The team that described them says the animal is a new genus as well as a new species, and says in the same…
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One of the most detailed views of the surface of the red supergiant Betelgeuse, taken by the Alma interferometer, shows a strange bright spot, 800 degrees hotter than the rest…
Five-meter-per-pixel maps cross-referenced with the resistance limits of five microorganisms common on spacecraft reveal that up to 30% of the lunar south pole's surface preserves…
SALT LAKE CITY – Aug. 25, 2026 – Tendeg has released NewTEN, a two-axis steerable reflector antenna that expands communications performance and pointing access for small spacecraft. Unveiled Monday…
Polish startup Ares Shield hired to protect data center satellites with high-power microwave weapons
Florida-based Lonestar Data Holdings has contracted Polish startup Ares Shield to provide protection for its off-Earth data centers, in a deal worth up to $6 million.
This fast radio burst (FRB) is among the most distant ever detected and released the equivalent of our Sun's entire output over 30 years…
Integrating Model-Based Systems Engineering and Fault Management to Enable Autonomous Space Missions
Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for…
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…
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