Comet & Asteroid News 1 month ago
The Material Science Behind A Spacecraft's Impact Armor

Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more and more often is the need to design aga...

Source: Universe Today

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 8 – 17

Jupiter, shining high the western dusk, inches down day toward brighter Venus. Venus, meanwhile, creeps toward the horntip stars of Taurus and stands ...

Source: Sky & Telescope

The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space photo of the day for May 8, 2026
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space photo of the day for May 8, 2026

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

Source: Space.com

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Paraguay signs the Artemis Accords

Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks.

Source: SpaceNews

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA Names Brian Hughes to Launch Operations Role

NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center ...

Source: NASA

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Glowing Views from the Space Station

NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon d...

Source: NASA

India's first space tech unicorn emerges as Skyroot gears up for orbital launch | TechCrunch
Artemis Program 1 month ago
India's first space tech unicorn emerges as Skyroot gears up for orbital launch | TechCrunch

Skyroot's valuation has more than doubled since 2023 as the Indian rocket startup prepares for the country's first private orbital launch.

Source: TechCrunch

Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth

Ok, this is incredible: this person on Reddit discovered that if you take a bunch of the sequential photos of the Earth captured by the Artemis II cre...

Source: kottke.org

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week

ARTnews Top 200 collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo launched the island of San Giacomo in the Northern Lagoon of Venice for contemporary art.

Source: ARTnews

A researcher may have found a shortcut to Mars as NASA eyes red planet
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
A researcher may have found a shortcut to Mars as NASA eyes red planet

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.

Source: USA Today

SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' Super Heavy rocket booster. When could it fly? (video)
Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' Super Heavy rocket booster. When could it fly? (video)

SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the vehicle's Super Heavy on the pad in Texas.

Source: Space.com

Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding in NASA data
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding in NASA data

It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.

Source: Space.com

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled toget...

Source: NASA

Artemis Program 1 month ago
United States Welcomes Paraguay's Signing of the Artemis Accords

The Department of State congratulates the Republic of Paraguay on joining the Artemis Accords. Paraguay is the 67th country to sign the Accords to dat...

Source: Globalsecurity.org

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Dr. Jitendra Singh holds bilateral meeting with French Minister India-France ties set for expansion in space, AI and emerging technologies

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, and Minister of State for PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances...

Source: Globalsecurity.org

Space Technology 1 month ago
Two Blue Origin Operators Just Joined a MACH 2+ Air-Launch Platform

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Starfighters Space (NYSE American: FJET) added senior leaders from Blue Origin’s New Glenn program — a sm...

Source: Financial Post

These Remarkable Photos of Planet Earth Were Taken 50 Years Apart by NASA
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
These Remarkable Photos of Planet Earth Were Taken 50 Years Apart by NASA

These Remarkable Photos of Planet Earth Were Taken 50 Years Apart by NASA   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by NASA Earth (@nasaearth) Las...

Source: My Modern Met

How working for NASA actually works, according to a former NASA astronaut
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
How working for NASA actually works, according to a former NASA astronaut

Mike Massimino is a retired NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

Source: Business Insider

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far side of the moon that cameras struggle to capture. Here's why scientists are excited
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far side of the moon that cameras struggle to capture. Here's why scientists are excited

The Artemis 2 astronauts saw several impact flashes on the moon during their epic April 6 flyby, observations that have excited scientists and mission...

Source: Space.com

A beacon of light in swirls of dust
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
A beacon of light in swirls of dust

This latest Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features Messier 77 (M77), a bar...

Source: Esa.int