Comet & Asteroid News 2 months ago
APOD: August 4, 2026 – Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula

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Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface

Hidden moon ice may reveal itself through the way it bends and reflects vibrations from moonquakes. The technique could help astronauts locate vital w...

Source: Science Daily

Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons

WASHINGTON, August 3 : New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of ye...

Source: CNA

Ancient disaster for Neptune moons caught by Webb telescope
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
Ancient disaster for Neptune moons caught by Webb telescope

After being captured, Triton's own gravitational forces stirred up Neptune's original moons and caused most of them to collide with each oth...

Source: Newsnationnow.com

JUAN WILLIAMS: My nephew returned from space with a message America needs
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
JUAN WILLIAMS: My nephew returned from space with a message America needs

NASA astronaut Chris Williams, nephew of Fox News contributor Juan Williams, returned to Earth after eight months on the ISS, completing spacewalks an...

Source: Fox News

Is QQQ Worth Buying Now That SpaceX Has Joined the Nasdaq-100? Here's My Honest Take
Space Technology 2 months ago
Is QQQ Worth Buying Now That SpaceX Has Joined the Nasdaq-100? Here's My Honest Take

On July 7, Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) made history by becoming the index's fastest inclusion ever. It's the first stock t...

Source: Biztoc.com

Artemis Program 2 months ago
The roads to the Moon

NASA has announced plans for a lunar base starting with its current Artemis architecture. Ernesto Gabriel Arias discusses an alternative approach bett...

Source: The Space Review

I bought a $50 telescope on Facebook Marketplace — here's what I learned
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
I bought a $50 telescope on Facebook Marketplace — here's what I learned

I bought a $50 telescope from Facebook Marketplace

Source: Space.com

At Kennedy Space Center, NASA presses toward Artemis III launch next year
Artemis Missions 2 months ago
At Kennedy Space Center, NASA presses toward Artemis III launch next year

NASA is pressing ahead with plans to launch Artemis III next year, a mission that would test lunar landers in Earth orbit as the agency works toward r...

Source: Biztoc.com

In 2026 NASA flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years, and in almost the same weeks the White House proposed some of the deepest budget cuts in the agency’s history, most of them aimed at its science programmes
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
In 2026 NASA flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years, and in almost the same weeks the White House proposed some of the deepest budget cuts in the agency’s history, most of them aimed at its science programmes

A triumph in orbit collided with a threat to the very science that built NASA's reputation, exposing a deeper crisis beneath the headlines. The p...

Source: Space Daily

Find funding and save Jodrell Bank, stars say
Artemis Program 2 months ago
Find funding and save Jodrell Bank, stars say

Astronaut Tim Peake, guitarist Johnny Marr and 150 other public figures have signed an open letter.

Source: BBC News

If I Had $1,000 to Invest Today, Here's the Trillion-Dollar Stock I'd Buy Instead of SpaceX
Space Technology 2 months ago
If I Had $1,000 to Invest Today, Here's the Trillion-Dollar Stock I'd Buy Instead of SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies, which operates in the space transportation, satellite internet connectivity, and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastr...

Source: Biztoc.com

This Sky-Watcher is an ideal beginner telescope for solar observing
Astronomy Research 2 months ago
This Sky-Watcher is an ideal beginner telescope for solar observing

The Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76mm H-alpha is a portable beginner's solar telescope that is easy to use and offers dramatic views of the turbulent su...

Source: Space.com

Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Pay Package Requires Tesla Stock to Grow Roughly Sixfold to an $8.5 Trillion Market Cap
Space Exploration 2 months ago
Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Pay Package Requires Tesla Stock to Grow Roughly Sixfold to an $8.5 Trillion Market Cap

Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Pay Package Requires Tesla Stock to Grow Roughly Sixfold to an $8.5 Trillion Market Cap By virtue of owning over 40% of t...

Source: Biztoc.com

NASA opens first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years at Virginia facility
NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
NASA opens first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years at Virginia facility

NASA's new wind tunnel has a diameter of 20 feet and stands 24 feet tall, with wind speeds of up to 117 miles per hour. It will help test technol...

Source: Fox News

SpaceX Reports Its First-Ever Earnings Tuesday. Here Are the 5 Numbers That Will Define Whether the $1.4 Trillion Valuation Makes Any Sense
Space Technology 2 months ago
SpaceX Reports Its First-Ever Earnings Tuesday. Here Are the 5 Numbers That Will Define Whether the $1.4 Trillion Valuation Makes Any Sense

SpaceX Reports Its First-Ever Earnings Tuesday. Here Are the 5 Numbers That Will Define Whether the $1.4 Trillion Valuation Makes Any Sense. Space Exp...

Source: Biztoc.com

A single 1968 photograph of Earth rising over the Moon reshaped how we see our planet, and the astronauts who have since watched it hang whole in the black keep reporting the same shift, an effect now common enough to have a name
Artemis Program 2 months ago
A single 1968 photograph of Earth rising over the Moon reshaped how we see our planet, and the astronauts who have since watched it hang whole in the black keep reporting the same shift, an effect now common enough to have a name

For almost all of human history, nobody had seen the Earth. People saw landscapes, horizons, oceans, the ground under their feet, but no one had ever ...

Source: Space Daily

Artemis Program 2 months ago
Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus

SAN FRANCISCO – Spanish startup Kreios Space announced plans Aug. 4 to conduct the first very low Earth orbit (VLEO) demonstration of its air-breathin...

Source: SpaceNews

NASA & Space Agencies 2 months ago
NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions

With a Falcon 9 upper stage set to hit the moon this week, SpaceX says it is working with NASA on ways to prevent similar collisions in the future. Th...

Source: SpaceNews

In about thirty years we have gone from knowing of no planets beyond the Sun to confirming more than 6,000, and the biggest surprise is that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is one our own solar system does not contain
Artemis Program 2 months ago
In about thirty years we have gone from knowing of no planets beyond the Sun to confirming more than 6,000, and the biggest surprise is that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is one our own solar system does not contain

The galaxy is ruled by a type of world we've never seen up close—and it's forcing us to rethink how planetary systems form. The post In abou...

Source: Space Daily