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August 25, 2026
We chat to author Mike Diver about this complete chronicle of Alien video games.
From the SmallSat Conference in Salt Lake City, Eric Anden, Head of Communication Products at Ramon.Space, joins Daniela Jovic to explain how the company is bringing terrestrial computing to space -…
In this episode, SpaceNews Mike Gruss interviews Kevin Lausten, CEO of Morpheus Space, at the 2026 Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. They discuss why propulsion is critical […] The…
Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy…
Most stars, including massive ones, are in binary pairs. Astronomers think that about 70% of them have gained mass from their companions, but there's been no way to determine which ones have done…
SpaceX has demonstrated the high-speed flight and re-entry at the centre of its 2017 Earth-to-Earth animation, but not the passenger system required around it. The post In 2017, SpaceX proposed…
ICEYE has established national entities in Germany, Portugal and India inside 47 days and named a country chief executive for the UAE in the same window. CEO Rafal Modrzewski and ICEYE UAE chief…
Addressing simulation bottlenecks in complex flight dynamics modeling, aerospace engineering firm a.i. solutions launched FreeFlyer 8 on August 25, 2026. Unveiled at the Small Satellite Conference…
The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to reveal the atmospheric composition of exoplanets near the Solar System, as well as discoveries about cosmology…
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Elon Musk's SpaceX announced plans Tuesday to build a $100 billion facility in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana to launch its anticipated Starship megarockets, currently being developed at the…
Mission accomplished for Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon on August 25. Despite an issue with the Frenchwoman's spacesuit at the end of the spacewalk, the two astronauts…
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — On-orbit checkouts of the Tranche 1 Space Development Agency (SDA) satellites launched in July are progressing much faster than previous plane launches, SDA Director Dr…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 2:57 p.m. EDT.
ACT’s final microwave-background measurements reinforce the 13.8-billion-year age, while Rajendra Gupta’s 26.7-billion-year result depends on a hybrid tired-light model and changing physical…
SpaceX will build a spaceport on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast designed for 10 Starship launch pads, the company and Gov. Jeff Landry announced Tuesday in Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish. The post…
Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material that permeates the Universe. It's not that the stuff doesn't exist. It does, but we…
64 light-years from Earth, HD 189733b has winds of thousands of km/h and a silicate-rich atmosphere, measured by telescopes such as Hubble and James Webb…
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy…
Learning to See Sharper: Deep Learning for Astronomical Data Enhancement. Speaker: Shoubaneh Hemmati The post Galaxies SIG Seminar, 8 Sept 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .
Every beach is a geological map written in sand, its color a direct reflection of the bedrock and ancient life forms that created it. The post The reason sand is yellow, white, black, pink, green…
The United States government approved the sale of laser-guided APKWS II (Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System) rockets, in their air-to-air version, to Italy…
A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana's Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship launches per year.
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The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
Dark matter is known to make up roughly 85% of all mass in the universe, as evidenced by the way galaxies spin and how galaxy clusters are held together under gravity. Yet despite decades of…
A simple mental reversal—imagining your current life as something you once desperately wanted—can dissolve the sting of everyday disappointment. The post Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher…
Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn't mean astronomers aren't capable of capturing this doomed star in a completely new light.
The last eclipse of 2026 will be lunar and, although partial, it will look almost like a total eclipse of the Moon; here's why…
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and…
The White House issued a new National Space Transportation Policy on Aug. 20, replacing the country’s 2013 space transportation policy and setting a target of more than 1,000 launches and reentries…
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