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August 22, 2026
Astrophysicist Richard Taillet, sadly, is no longer with us. We would have liked to know his opinion on a recent theoretical work…
In a few days, a new space probe will set off for the Moon. It is not yet a crewed mission, but it is a decisive additional step for China, which this time is aiming for the pole…
A rare stellar stream discovered in an ultra-diffuse galaxy 115 million light-years away reveals new clues about extragalactic dark matter…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- Growing dependence on civilian, commercial and military satellites is turning orbital security into one of the most complex issues in arms control…
Webb's integral field spectrograph split one lopsided hydrogen line into two, then turned up a third in the galaxy's outskirts. The mass estimates could be off by a factor of ten, and the paper's…
ALMA and Webb found extreme deuterium enrichment in 3I/ATLAS water, preserving a chemical record of ice formed below roughly 30 kelvin in another planetary system. The post A comet that drifted…
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and the potential for life. But directly studying its ancient past is currently limited to…
The post APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids appeared first on NASA Science .
The goal is to provide a navigation capability independent of GNSS to operate in scenarios where satellite signals have been jammed, blocked or suffer some…
"We're also on track to beat last year's launch count." Experience that opens doors to Neutron. Beck also noted that the extensive experience with Electron, which has already accumulated…
2025 PN7 is a tiny Sun-orbiting quasi-satellite whose 60-year relationship with Earth comes from orbital modelling, while precovery images now trace its measured history to 2013. The post An…
The Cold War space race didn't start with Sputnik—it began with a whisper bouncing off the Moon. The post In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a…
The world's fastest-growing mining operation isn't in the ground—it's in our drawers, filled with obsolete phones and computers. The post A tonne of discarded printed circuit boards can contain…
SpaceX has already caught a Super Heavy booster. Catching the re-entering Starship upper stage would test whether its legless design can become a practical reuse system. The post SpaceX built the…
A prehistoric man's violent death, preserved in ice for five millennia, remains unsolved—and the mystery deepens with every scientific revelation. The post In 1991, hikers in the Alps found a body…
Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16…
Webb's ten long infrared exposures found S/2025 U1 between Ophelia and Bianca, extending a moon census begun by Voyager 2 while exposing how much remains unresolved around Uranus. The post Voyager 2…
What looks like nature's most unlikely friendship is actually a brutal cost-benefit analysis: the caiman has simply decided that eating a 45-kilogram rodent isn't worth the trouble. The post…
August 21, 2026
A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic…
"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."
ASKAP J1745−5051 links a 1.34497-hour radio pulse to an accreting white dwarf binary, giving astronomers a reference case for long-period radio transients. The post A PhD student in Sydney just…
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Integrated Medical Model for 31-180 Day Missions Integrated Medical Model for 31-400+ Day Missions The post Low Earth Orbit IMM Runs appeared first on NASA Science .
What is the IMM? The Integrated Medical Model (IMM) is a sophisticated, stochastic (probabilistic) risk assessment tool used by NASA to evaluate the impact of medical events during spaceflight. By…
Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its center. The star, designated S301, was observed with the Very…
The U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Italy of the air-to-air variant of the APKWS-II, which would include over 5,000 guided rockets. The U.S. Defense Security…
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of galaxies with fading radio lobes, revealing what happens to these vast outflows when their black hole engines stall.
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As Commander of the German Space Command, Major General Traut leads Germany’s dedicated military space operations organization, responsible for protecting German and allied space assets and…
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