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August 20, 2026
A decade-long study designed to prove screens damage children's brains found the opposite instead, challenging one of parenting's most cherished anxieties. The post Researchers in Finland tracked…
Hubble and Webb astrometry caught a star near periastron, allowing a 23-year partial arc to reveal the first individually detected stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri. The post Omega Centauri…
According to INNOSPACE, the company responsible for the vehicle, the flight had to be ended earlier than planned for safety reasons. The post South Korean rocket launched from Maranhão falls int…
A self-help empire built on a meeting that never happened, according to the one source that would have recorded it. The post The man who wrote the best-selling self-help book in history, Think and…
Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
The system favors the transport of cold air and contributes to the formation of a cold front…
Research shows that the way we measure led science to underestimate the Sun; solar storms could cause twice the impact on the planet's infrastructure…
The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on — one light-day away from Earth — is about distance, not time. And it's very, very far. The post Voyager 1: What Is a Light-Day appeared first on NASA…
August 19, 2026
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A reusable space launch capability similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 will degrade a key U.S. advantage in space access for national security as well as commercial applications. The post China’s Reusable…
A 60-million-year reconstruction links sea level to phosphate availability, ocean oxygen and organic carbon burial, with the strongest sink appearing in an intermediate sweet spot. The post For…
NASA Ames Research Center Contact email: sam.kim@nasa.gov phone: 650-604-4384 The post Samuel Kim appeared first on NASA Science .
SAN FRANCISCO – Risk-management firm IN2 will have access to Eartheye Space multi-sensor satellite tasking and analytics through a memorandum of understanding signed Aug. 19. IN2 will include…
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The Administration is requesting $71 billion for the U.S. Space Force in FY2027, more than twice what it has now. An analysis by the Aerospace Corporation concludes it is the […]
Sagan and Salpeter's 1976 Jovian ecology was a calculation, not a claim of discovery: could airborne organisms grow, reproduce and control buoyancy before fatal descent? The post In 1976, Carl Sagan…
The launch, however, was not broadcast, and there is still not enough information to say the mission was completed successfully. The post South Korean rocket launched in Maranhão…
NASA and Katalyst Space announced today that due to ongoing attitude-control issues with LINK, the company was unable to dock with Swift and raise the telescope to a higher…
NASA and Katalyst Space have announced that the LINK mission will not be able to carry out, as planned, the capture and orbit-raising of the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory due to a…
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
A mysterious background of extremely low-frequency gravitational waves detected by networks of pulsars may carry information about events that began more than 13 billion years ago—including the…
Engineers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry partners have completed a comprehensive concept study for "Phoenix 3", a reusable spacecraft intended to…
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into…
Meghalaya's villagers have cracked a code that defies centuries of engineering: bridges that strengthen as they age, grown patiently from living roots into structures that outlast any human-built…
Speedcast has secured another connectivity deal in the energy industry. It has implemented an all-LEO solution across the fleet of TGS, a global provider of data and intelligence to the […] The post…
Some of Earth's microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the moon's South Pole region, NASA scientists say.
While Starship is grabbing headlines, another fully reusable vehicle is advancing towards a potential 2026… The post Stoke Space conducts second stage fit checks, completes first stage engines ahead…
Vantor has new leadership for its U.S. government business, appointing Will Cocos as executive vice president and general manager to lead the company’s business in U.S. defense, intelligence and…
The August 19 landing of its ZhuQue-3 rocket marked the first landing of a Chinese-made rocket using landing legs as well.
The recently launched Katalyst Space servicing mission to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory won’t be able to complete the rescue, NASA and Katalyst confirmed Wednesday. After the Katalyst Link…
Before people can mine resources on the moon, asteroids or Mars, they need to answer a few key questions: What is there? How much is there? And where can it be found? A team led by SETI Institute…
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