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August 21, 2026
Keith’s note: according to NASA Artemis II crew will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Jared Isaacman sent this note to all of NASA this afternoon: “NASA Team, As […] The post Artemis…
The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights and reentries, with the goal of expanding the nation's capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.
"We lose so much sleep, we have crazy hours, we say crazy things, we even look crazy."
Long-period Radio Transients are sources that emit repeating radio and x-ray signals. The signals are polarized and coherent, and are similar to pulsars in some respects. But the type of…
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse crossed Iceland and Spain — the first time totality has touched European soil since 1999, and the first time it’s crossed Iceland since 1954. Clouds spoiled the…
Paris, France | August 2026– More than 6,500 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to launch by 2035, generating $155.9 billion in manufacturing revenues as governments expand sovereign…
Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), a co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus in Congress and a member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, discusses the transformative defense…
Rocky planets may have gotten their start far earlier than anyone expected, almost as soon as the first stars gave the universe the ingredients to build them. New computer simulations suggest that…
The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28).
The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday. That […]
The technology can also expand the ability to track aquatic mammal populations in hard-to-reach areas…
Direct imaging has revealed strong evidence that Betelgeuse is orbited by a companion two to three times as massive as the Sun. For generations, Betelgeuse has appeared to the naked eye as a single…
The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday. That […] The post…
The Starlink 15-20 mission represents the 99th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Liftoff from pad 4 East is scheduled for 12:25 a.m. PDT (3:25 a.m. EDT / 0725 UTC).
While Ship 40 is preparing to be transported back to Starbase from Christmas Island, Ship… The post Ship 41 Completes Engine Testing Ahead of Flight 14 appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
While orbital data centers have drawn attention and driven headlines this year, there’s another story unfolding in spaceborne computing — the evolution of the space edge. It’s a shift to […] The…
The Geminid meteor shower in mid-December is one of the highlights of the observing year, with as many as 120 meteors visible per hour from a dark site. To capture them, Qu Xiaofeng set off for the…
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Sun’s wispy outer atmosphere — the corona — to those in the…
The Space Warfighting Environment 2040 is unique because it “was deliberately written to be warfighter-first, not technology-first,” an official at SPACECOM’s Joint Forces Development and Training…
Orbital data center startup Starcloud added $250 million to its Series A round just five months after the raise, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3 billion. Manhattan West led […] The post…
Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a compact red object so luminous that ordinary nuclear fusion…
Space Norway CEO Morten Tengs is stepping down from the role at the end of August, and the company will begin the search for a new permanent CEO. Rune Jensen […] The post Space Norway Appoints Rune…
The Expedition 75 crew wrapped up the work week getting ready for a spacewalk to finish installing a high-speed antenna on the International Space Station. The orbital residents also explored new…
Yesterday Ukraine's military intelligence service (DIU) reported that Russia had received ballistic missiles of the KN-30 type from North Korea for the first time. This involves … more...
Japan recently gave the world a look at the spacecraft of its MMX mission, which will launch on Oct. 19 to grab pieces of the Mars moon Phobos and haul them back to Earth.
The phenomenon is expected to peak at a 3.9 °C anomaly in November and could raise 2027's global temperature to 1.76 °C above pre-industrial levels…
KOI-884 e is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.42 Jupiters, it takes 59.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.28769382022711 AU from its star. Its discovery…
KOI-319 c is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 27.7 Jupiters, it takes 80.1 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.39941542329158 AU from its star. Its discovery…
KOI-319 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 10 Jupiters, it takes 46.1 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.2668 AU from its star. Its discovery was…
TOI-6158 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 0.425 Jupiters, it takes 3 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.03275 AU from its star. Its discovery was…
