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August 21, 2026
This report was originally published on IDRW.org. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has backed Starlink’s satellite internet service for expanding connectivity in underserved parts of... The post Starlink…
For the first time, astronomers have discovered 3 supermassive black holes in a single galaxy in the early universe. Two of them are merging! The post A first! 3 supermassive black holes discovered…
We've known for nearly two decades that some form of water exists on the moon. What we still don't know is exactly how much accessible water ice lies inside permanently shadowed craters, how deeply…
We'll soon get a chance to see a giant curved shadow in space move slowly across the moon during a very deep partial lunar eclipse. There are few more awesome or enlightening sights.
Late Mike Melvill recalled as a nice guy who can never be replaced.
NASA has selected four companies to provide payload processing facilities under the Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract (SPOC). The…
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has selected four more projects under its 2025 FAST program, backing advanced manufacturing for space structures, astronaut training, navigation in low Earth orbit…
A mass of cold air is dropping temperatures in the center-south, while the North and Northeast remain hot and dry; check the forecast by region…
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Taiwan's effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week.
What Moon phase is it today, August 21, 2026? Check the full calendar for the month…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that it no longer envisages an evolution of the Ariane 6 Block 3. It states there is “no need or programmatic justification” for such an evolution…
NASA's Voyager 2 confirmed the discovery of Neptune's rings on August 22, 1989, when it took images of a faint, continuous ring system around the planet. The post Voyager 2 confirms Neptune’s rings…
This engine, developed by Rosatom, runs on hydrogen and can accelerate charged particles, electrons and protons, to an exhaust velocity of 100 km/s…
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.
Records reveal structures that were submerged after the reservoir was filled, between 2001 and 2002; the site also holds objects placed by firefighters for training…
Some microorganisms carried to the Moon by future crewed missions could remain viable in the most sheltered areas of the south pole…
The waxing Moon is on its way to a not-quite-total lunar eclipse Thursday the 27th. On Friday the 21st, it's still east of Antares in the evening sky. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 21…
Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a dramatic change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier’s floating ice tongue broke away on 4…
The memorandum responds to that perception with a change of model in which the White House and its departments and agencies, especially NASA, will stop being the main operator…
A 3.5-billion-year-old rock found in India may preserve signs of ancient microorganisms that once lived on the planet…
As you gaze toward the famous Teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius, you are looking toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The post Teapot of Sagittarius points to the Milky Way’s…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 20: Dark, flat Plato Turn your gaze southeast early this morning to find Saturn already some 30° high, shining so…
Written by Raoul Cardellini Leipertz Space talks endlessly about attracting the next generation. But behind the promise of meritocracy lies a quieter barrier: who can actually afford the education…
An analysis gathered 427 records of interactions between primates and other species and identified behaviors such as caregiving and even "adoption"…
Astrobiologists use new starting points to produce ‘organic’ models of our solar system’s formation.
In the new space race and NewSpace, the distinction between orbital space and deep space raises a relevant reflection for rethinking contemporary space governance. The thesis…
From a historic airfield in Neuhardenberg near Berlin, Benjamin Wolba, co-founder of the first-ever European Defense Tech Hub Festival, joins Torsten Kriening to explain how a group of civilians is…
Proteus Space has been selected by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Draper) to develop an advanced in-orbit mission under a multi-year agreement. The company will take on the…
Aviación Digital, Sp.- The US space agency laid out on August 19, 2026, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the mission's full sequence, described as «one of the…
Taiwan's first flight test of a domestically developed satellite launch vehicle, conducted by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, ended in flight termination shortly after…
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