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August 25, 2026
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…
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…
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…
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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…
China’s Chang’e-7 lunar probe sitting atop its Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket has been rolled back to the assembly and test building at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan. Chang’e-7 was ready…
This week there will be a lunar eclipse, occurring 15 days after a solar eclipse — understand the differences between these phenomena…
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…
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. India is firmly on track to establish its own independent orbital outpost, with the Indian Space Research... The post India Targets 2035 for…
Somewhere right now, someone is lining up a shot with bare ears and calling it a quiet afternoon. It will not be quiet. Peak sound pressure levels from firearms run from about 140 to 175 decibels…
A study reveals how two spiral tissues keep the narwhal's tusk, up to three metres long, straight despite its spiral shape. Originally published by…
Microbes on the moon that hitch a ride on human astronauts could survive by using little nooks and crannies for protection from the harsh environment. The post How earthly microbes on the moon might…
Little red dots may reside in small, dense galaxies with total masses equivalent to around 1 billion times that of the sun, according to research published in Nature Astronomy.
Thinking outside the box is paying off—at least for The Aerospace Corporation, which is starting to gain commercial traction for Disksat, its new box-less satellite configuration. The post The…
No GPS? No problem. A team of NASA satellites are extending their stay in space after successfully proving out navigation by other means.
A day octopus flashes black and white for a fraction of a second, extends an arm, and strikes its hunting partner across the head. In some of the documented cases, the researchers could tell exactly…
On today's date, August 25, 1989, Voyager 2 flew over the north pole of Neptune, making its closest approach to a planet in its outer solar system Grand Tour. The post Voyager 2: Our 1st and only…
How a kingdom caught between two empires turned their rivalry into an unlikely shield. The post Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia never colonised by a European power — not because it…
The next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) is set to launch as part of flight VA270 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. It…
Kepler Communications has started its commercial service for the first tranche of its optical data relay network. The milestone follows the constellation’s initial deployment in January 2026 and…
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…
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (August 25, 2026) – Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, today announced a strategic investment in next‑generation…
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The universe is known to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Physicists typically attribute this acceleration to dark energy, a mysterious component of the universe that exerts negative pressure…
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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…
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