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August 7, 2026
"Collaborating with Pokémon, a brand with such a rich and imaginative universe, represents a unique opportunity for ESA to bring space closer to different types of audiences through creativity…
The Raasvet project envisions more than 250 satellites, compared with the tens of thousands in Elon Musk's system.
When NASA's three 'SkyFall' helicopters rise into the Martian sky, one of their tasks will be searching for frozen water using ground-penetrating radar — a vital…
As dwarf planet Pluto moves along in its distant, high-obliquity 248-year orbit, its atmosphere is changing. That's because it's beginning to travel through colder, darker parts of the outer Solar…
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Multiple sources have reported that SpaceX has stopped accepting bookings for its Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions beyond late 2028, with the company citing a fully booked Falcon 9…
August 6, 2026
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The Aug. 5 update from Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp offered the first explanation for what caused the company’s 98-meter-tall (320 ft.) to explode at the pad on May 28.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) has announced its 20th public data release (DR20), delivering a dramatic expansion of the Milky Way Mapper (MWM) scientific survey—the most detailed…
As part of preparations for NASA's Lucy probe's first encounters with Trojan asteroids, mission scientists have begun instructing the spacecraft to orient its…
A warrior's DNA, preserved in Siberian permafrost for four millennia, reveals an unbroken genetic thread connecting ancient violence to modern populations across the Russian Far East. The post A…
Textbook diagrams enlarge asteroids until the belt looks packed. NASA's own scale estimates show why spacecraft cross it safely and why planned flybys require precise targeting. The post The…
On July 30, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying the classified NROL-95 payload […]
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a massive stream of gas—one trillion miles, or 0.2 light-years, long—feeding the young triple-star…
Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics. The new study aims to unveil the physical processes that led to the…
An ancient Greek bronze computer solved a celestial puzzle that wouldn't be mathematically described for another thousand years. The post The Moon does not cross the sky at a steady speed, and the…
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Space hardware provider OHB SE of Germany said Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket… The post OHB to European governments: Invest now in Europe’s spaceport to capture demand and industry will…
The dispersion of launch costs has shrunk over the years. A new paper noted that three effects could be causing this phenomenon. Historically it has been documented how there is a high degree of…
Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.
Narrow jets of luminous matter may be emitted toward Earth from the nuclei of active galaxies billions of light-years away. The galaxy then appears as a point source and is called a blazar. A…
Next week's total solar eclipse is one of 13,000 calculated by hand, without any technology, in the 19th century.
Research suggests that bacteria and archaea may have followed independent evolutionary paths before becoming free-living cells on the planet.
The NASA Science Activation Program’s Cosmic Storytelling with NASA Data (CosmicDS) project, led by Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works to bring authentic NASA data into the hands…
The Sun's outer atmosphere reaches millions of degrees while the surface below is far cooler. Waves, reconnection and new spacecraft measurements explain parts of the paradox, but not yet all of it…
Deep inside super-Earths—rocky planets with masses between 1 and 10 times that of Earth—high pressure can cause familiar minerals to take forms rarely seen on Earth. Understanding more about the…
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3 p.m. EDT. It was Menon’s first spacewalk and Meir’s sixth.
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As Dave Linp stated in a post on X, the anomaly originated in the main oxygen valve of one of the BE-4 engines. This was also confirmed through the recovery and inspection of hardware…
KSC Partnerships Related Links Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge The refuge traces its beginnings to the development of the nation’s Space Program. Canaveral National Seashore Discover a…
A new study analyzing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spectra of more than 1,400 galaxies suggests a surprisingly small group of "leaky" galaxies was responsible for cosmic reionization. The…
The rotation rate of LINK, the rescue mission for Swift in which 2 of 3 reaction wheels failed, has been further reduced to 1.47°/s with the help of the ion thrusters. This is…
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