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August 19, 2026
Firefly Aerospace will fly a payload from Zeno Power on an upcoming lunar lander mission to test a radioisotope heat source to enable future missions to survive the lunar night. The post Firefly…
*Rendering of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander with Zeno Power’s Survive-the-Night Package hosted on the top deck Cedar Park, Texas, August 19, 2026 – Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market…
Press Release No. 41–2026 The European Space Agency (ESA) invites media representatives to an online press briefing on 31 August 2026 about the latest developments of the…
Korean's lunar orbiter, Danuri, captured a view of the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026. This unique perspective includes the moon's limb in the foreground. The post See the August 12 solar eclipse…
In a country where appearance can determine who gets hired, who gets married, and how confidently a woman moves through the world, cosmetic surgery isn't a luxury—it's a system of survival. The post…
Upcoming Science Interest Group & Science Analysis Group Activities, 20 Aug - 26 Aug 2026 The post Upcoming SIG and SAG Activities, 20 Aug – 26 Aug 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .
The new ROSES-25 program element D.9 Habitable Worlds Observatory Instrument Concept Assessments (HWO-ICA), solicits proposals to support maturation of the HWO mission concept. The post ROSES-25…
NASA IRTF Semester 2027A Call for Proposals; Open 1 September to 1 October 2026 The post NASA IRTF Semester 2027A Call for Proposals appeared first on NASA Science .
What phase is the Moon in today, August 19, 2026? Check it out and see the full monthly calendar The post The Moon today: check this Wednesday's Moon phase 19/08/2026…
NASA’s 2026 Joint HELIOTECH and Orbital Flight Symposium will be held 31 August – 4 September at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and online via ZoomGov. The post…
A single pixel of light holds astonishing detail. How ocean glint, rotational mapping, and the vegetation red edge let us read a distant planet's oceans, continents, and even forests, all without…
Sophie Adenot became, on Tuesday 18 August, the first French woman to perform a spacewalk. For 6 h 23 min, the ESA astronaut worked alongside American…
"This isn't what we expected at all."
A study indicates that predators up to seven meters long were at the top of South American ecosystems during the Miocene The post Crocodiles were once "kings" of South America…
Today, August 19, 2026, at 20:45, there will be a very bright pass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, visible throughout Italy. Often looking up…
Image: ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during EVA-97
Light pollution has become a public health crisis that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, leaving millions of people living under skies that their bodies were never designed to…
Image: Ariane 6 blueprint
Video: 00:04:10 ESA’s Mars Express takes us on another mesmerising flight, this time around one of the biggest craters on Mars. Despite measuring a huge 460 km across, Schiaparelli Crater seems to…
The animals live in the groundwater of the Ryukyu Islands and show traits adapted to darkness, such as lack of pigmentation and eyes The post Blind "cousins" of shrimp…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon completed the US EVA-97 spacewalk on Tuesday, 18 August, at 20:52 CEST. It was the first spacewalk for…
Super-Earths might be solid in their deep insides, a new study says. Minerals might take unusual forms and remain solid despite the intense heat and pressure. The post Super-Earths might be solid…
There is a new crater on the Moon since August 5, 2026. It was carved out by the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe has…
The Great Rift or Dark Rift is a darkened swath of the Milky Way where new stars are forming. It's best seen from a rural location away from light pollution. The post The Great Rift is a dark swath…
China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket on land for the first time, state media reported Wednesday, as the country seeks to advance its space program.
The sun passes through Ophiuchus for about 2 weeks every year, so why isn’t this constellation considered the zodiac’s 13th sign? The post Is Ophiuchus the 13th constellation of the zodiac? first…
Written by Jascha Langenberg Reaching industrial scale creates a new challenge for space start-ups: the organisation itself. Chapter 5 explores how founders, teams and structures must evolve as a…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 18: Stars and sparklers First Quarter Moon occurs at 10:46 p.m. EDT. The Moon is up nearly all evening, not setting…
But the most interesting findings come from studying the ejected material, since the images clearly show bright and dark "rays" extending from the center of the…
Calling yourself low-maintenance in relationships is often less a personality trait than a survival strategy — a decades-old adaptation built by people who once decided that having needs was what…
