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August 20, 2026
The mission to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.
Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space.
The UK Space Agency has announced funding for CGI’s SODOR (Satellites for Digitalization of Railways) technology project as part of a £13 million government investment supporting 16 projects aimed…
Written by Christophe Bosquillon USSPACECOM’s Space Warfighting Environment 2040 sees space as a permanently contested domain where resilience, interoperability and integration determine advantage…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 19: The Helix Nebula The waxing gibbous Moon dominates the evening sky, located in Scorpius. You’ll find it close…
Orders for both the GAIA 100 5.5-meter and the 6.1-meter systems underscore growing demand for
A normal lunar night lasts about 354 hours. Near the south pole, terrain can keep the Sun visible far longer, but even the brightest sites still need stored power. The post On most of the Moon…
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have decided to abandon the attempt to capture the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope and raise its orbit. The decision comes after…
The discomfort of admitting ignorance may be the price of actually learning something. The post Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “if you wish to make progress, be content to…
Europe’s newest eye on the health of Earth’s vegetation has taken another crucial step towards orbit – the European Space Agency’s FLEX satellite has been fuelled at Europe’s Spaceport in French…
Satellite reentries are adding alumina nanoparticles to the upper atmosphere. The ozone-depletion pathway is credible, but current models disagree sharply on its scale. The post The world banned…
In microgravity conditions, liquid nitrogen boiling behaves opposite to scientists' expectations: more efficient at first, but with a limit of... The post Boiling in…
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Zeno Power Systems Radioisotope Heater Unit to Fly on a Firefly 2028 Mission to the Moon’s Near Side
Building on the success of its Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar mission, Firefly Aerospace has entered into a commercial payload agreement to deliver Zeno Power Systems’ Survive-the-Night Package…
LandSpace has announced the successful launch, orbital payload deployment and first-stage recovery of its August 19 mission featuring the Zhuque-3 Y2 reusable carrier rocket. The achievement marks a…
NASA’s decade table puts the umbral magnitude at 0.930, deeper than any other partial lunar eclipse between 2021 and 2030 except one. The 96 percent figure in circulation measures the Moon’s area…
A lawsuit against ExxonMobil over coastal damage has concluded, clearing the way for new usage rights over 526 km² on Pecan Island. Lousiana's governor Jeff Landry invites next…
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 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hereby announces the scheduled launch of the Mart
Galileo's only direct descent into Jupiter sampled an unusually dry hot spot. Its 58 minutes of data remain invaluable, but some results were local weather, not a global average. The post The only…
The post APOD: 2026 August 20 – The Elephant’s Trunk in Cepheus appeared first on NASA Science .
Rocket Lab will launch its ninth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the action live.
Metal AM specialist DM3D is assisting clients in the space industry by lending its own DED systems and expertise to the 3D printing of large-format parts.
The rocket, which uses liquid oxygen and methane as propellants, successfully completed its main mission by placing into orbit the Honghu-03 satellite, built by Landspace subsidiary Hongqing…
In summer 2026, a large iceberg drifted more than 1,000 kilometers south from the northeastern Greenland bay where it likely originated. The post An Uncommon Drifter in the Denmark Strait appeared…
The rocket, which uses liquid oxygen and methane as propellants, successfully completed its main mission by placing the Honghu-03 satellite, built by Landspace's subsidiary Hongqing…
The rocket, which uses liquid oxygen and methane as propellants, successfully completed its main mission by placing into orbit the Honghu-03 satellite, built by Landspace subsidiary Hongqing…
Within a decade, the Moon's natural wobble will conspire with rising seas to flood American streets on clear days—with no storm in sight. The post NASA scientists found the Moon’s 18.6-year wobble…
Phoenix measured 0.4 to 0.6 per cent perchlorate in Martian soil. NASA's 2026 dust limit shows why the thyroid hazard is real but manageable through habitat engineering. The post Mars dirt looks…
A creature that cannot see color has mastered the art of vanishing in milliseconds, suggesting evolution found an entirely different solution to the problem of camouflage. The post Octopuses are…
Remember the "Wow!" signal? That high-energy radio signature occurred in 1977, when Earth was much "quieter" in the radio band. If it happened today, it probably wouldn't even move the needle on the…
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