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July 31, 2026
A £3 million investment could help secure a leading UK role in NASA’s future search for life on nearby planets. An Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star would appear as little more than a dim…
A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best…
Teams at Katalyst Space are making progress slowing the spin of their LINK spacecraft, which is designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Swift. The post Efforts Continue to Stabilize LINK Spacecraft…
A giant planet spent more than a decade concealed inside one of astronomy’s most closely watched star systems. Astronomers have discovered a planet named Beta Pictoris d orbiting a young star just…
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Astronomers found seven rare quasar gravitational lens candidates using AI, providing a powerful new tool for studying black hole and galaxy evolution.
Under a minute of footage showing Starship S40 in space during Flight 13, shot from a Starlink V3 satellite. The material comes from SpaceX and the channel sets it to a track of its own; the vantage point — a satellite filming the vehicle from orbit — is an unusual one.
Finding water on the moon may only be a matter of detecting the right vibrations.
We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars' equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on…
While SpaceX has now flown two flights out of the newly designed Pad 2, crews… The post Starbase Pad 1 Retrofits Progress as Block 3 Flights Start appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital creators are invited to attend in person. The…
JJ Abrams' new film "The End of Oak Street looks like "The Twilight Zone" meets "Jurassic Park" with a dash of "A Quiet Place." Could it be the perfect summer movie?
Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agency’s administrator. The post Sending…
We are seeking virtual panelists and/or external (email) reviewers for Accelerating Earth Solutions (ROSES A.13). Here are the rules: The post Accelerating Earth Solutions (ROSES A.13) appeared…
The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has released its second major public data…
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its…
On Friday, July 31, 2026, NASA leadership and Virginia government officials opened NASA’s first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley…
Star formation in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has been slowing down over the last 500 million years, according to a new study using Hubble Space Telescope data. The study was published July…
MADRID – July 31, 2026 – Spanish defense operator Hisdesat signed a formal industrial contract on July 31, 2026, with Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space to build […]
Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We're starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope…
Summer is the ideal time to look for the Great Rift, a long series of dark dust clouds that appear to split the Milky Way from Cygnus through Sagittarius.
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As Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp announced in a post on X, dismantling of the launch tower is complete – the lightning mast and the top six modules have been removed, meaning the…
Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian…
Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian…
John L. Barker, who passed away on July 6, 2026, at age 88, was a seminal force who fundamentally transformed Landsat into a rigorous science mission through his relentless pursuit of precision…
On 27 July, a memory card containing 1,350,144 names was mounted on a plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at KSC. The memory card will travel with the telescope to Lagrange Point 2…
NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests…
Asteroid 44 Nysa has the weirdest shape yet seen for an asteroid, and that’s saying something. The post Astronomers Spot Weird, Three-Lobed Asteroid with a Moon appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
The Flight Dynamics Research Facility will support free-flight and mounted testing of aircraft, spacecraft and drone models.
The Starlink 17-52 mission is SpaceX’s 90th orbital launch of the year so far. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:59 p.m. PDT (10:59 p.m. EDT / 0259 UTC).
