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August 24, 2026
NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is seen in the two-seat IndyCar as he prepares for driver Conor Daly to take him on a lap ahead of the start of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix…
SALT LAKE CITY – The Aerospace Corp. is continuing to demonstrate the viability of pancake-shaped DiskSats in the wake of their December launch on a Rocket Lab Electron. “It’s the […] The post…
A 320-metre oblique impact can reproduce Deimos's giant polar cavity while redistributing debris across the moon, implying an extremely weak and porous interior. The post Deimos may owe both its…
Description This roof-mounted air sensor in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is one of 10 used by NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) to study the city’s air quality. MAIA’s air…
A new study suggests that the formation of Earth is not the result of chance. According to the research, the opposite is in fact almost true: what would have been strange…
Description This map of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, shows the locations of 10 air sensors that NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) mission is using to provide one of the most…
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SpaceX will set a new rocket-reuse record early Tuesday morning (Aug. 25), on its 100th Falcon 9 flight of the year. You can watch the action live.
For years, humpback whales have been mysteriously intervening in orca hunts to save animals they'll never meet again—a pattern so bizarre that marine biologists are still searching for a plausible…
The Solar System had nine planets – until Pluto was reclassified, on August 24, 2006, in a controversial decision. The post Pluto guide: 20 years after…
NASA announced Aug. 19 that the Katalyst Space LINK spacecraft built to boost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will still rendezvous with the telescope but won’t raise its orbit, after an…
This week, on Astrobitácora 8x01, we talk about the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, which could launch in just a few days, barring setbacks. On YouTube, we also discuss the cancellation of…
The US Government has cleared a potential $364m FMS of air-to-air precision guidance kits and related equipment to Italy.
On August 24, 2026, aerospace software developer Sedaro and defense technology firm Shield AI announced the completion of initial on-orbit flight tests pairing Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy with…
Twenty years after Pluto became a dwarf planet, people are still fighting over its status. Experts explain why the debate feels so personal.
The satisfaction you're chasing moves further away the closer you get to it. The post Thought of the day from philosopher Socrates: “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented…
Targeting expanding requirements for high-power intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads, Kongsberg NanoAvionics introduced its Gen-2 MP42 family of ITAR-free microsatellite…
Argotec is working on the MiniCOR (Miniature CORonagraph) mission, a small NASA satellite designed to observe the solar corona and track coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the…
Argotec US is working on the MiniCOR (Miniature CORonagraph) mission, a small NASA satellite designed to observe the solar corona and track coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…
Deep Webb spectra suggest some massive galactic descendants contain far more low-mass stars than a Milky Way-based estimate allows, potentially quadrupling the inferred mass of an ancient…
On August 24, 2026, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operator ICEYE announced the formal establishment of ICEYE India, a new corporate entity operating out of New Delhi. The subsidiary is […]
High Lander has introduced Andromeda, an airspace security software layer that fuses multi-sensor detection feeds into a unified operational picture. Andromeda is designed to provide The post High…
PHOENIX, AZ — August 24, 2026 — Spirit Electronics, a value‑added distributor of high‑reliability electronics focused on performance‑driven program requirements, announced that space‑grade and…
Jupiter's gravity could trigger an outburst of Perseid meteors as the 2028 shower hits its peak.
Want great views of this week's partial lunar eclipse or a closer look at Saturn as it reaches opposition in October? This Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ, nearly 50% off at Walmart, is just what you need.
On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper, published in…
The European Space Agency expects to make specific safety adaptations to the Ariane 6 rocket for future launches of its Argonaut lunar landers that will carry a Radioisotope Power System. The…
The most famous genius in human history, Albert Einstein, not only revolutionized physics but also taught us many valuable lessons about how to live…
A soft landing at sea keeps Starship intact, giving SpaceX an unprecedented chance to recover a complete spacecraft. The post Historic: Starship completes…
Since their debut nearly two decades ago, Celestron’s NexImage cameras have introduced many amateurs to solar-system astrophotography. Starting as modified webcams, the series evolved with higher…
As drones fill the low-altitude sky, security teams can see that something is flying but
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