Is Earth getting brighter at night? It's complicated, new NASA 'Black Marble project' images reveal
NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
Is Earth getting brighter at night? It's complicated, new NASA 'Black Marble project' images reveal

Using nearly a decade of satellite observations, NASA's Black Marble project reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human nighttime activity v...

Source: Space.com

NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
NASA Releases Technology Priorities to Energize Space Industry

NASA released the 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking list on Wednesday, which integrates more than 400 responses from stakeholders i...

Source: NASA

NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
NASA to Provide Update on Moon Base Strategy, Missions

NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 26, to share Moon Base plans and highlight progress toward a sustained presence on the lu...

Source: NASA

NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
NASA-developed AI Could Help Track Harmful Algae

NASA scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool to take on a longstanding challenge in ocean waters. In a study recently published in A...

Source: NASA

Space Technology 3 months ago
Psyche Spacecraft Completes Mars Flyby

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. During ...

Source: NASA

The Pentagon Has Decided It Has a Hypersonic Problem -- and the Process Discipline to Solve It Is Coming Out of the Commercial Sector
Artemis Program 3 months ago
The Pentagon Has Decided It Has a Hypersonic Problem -- and the Process Discipline to Solve It Is Coming Out of the Commercial Sector

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Defense primes are reporting record backlogs, raised guidance, and accelerating missile and hypersonic pr...

Source: PRNewswire

China’s Chang’e 5 mission returned lunar rocks dated to 2 billion years old — 800 million years younger than anything Apollo brought back — which means the Moon was geologically active hundreds of millions of years later than every textbook had assumed, a
Space Technology 3 months ago
China’s Chang’e 5 mission returned lunar rocks dated to 2 billion years old — 800 million years younger than anything Apollo brought back — which means the Moon was geologically active hundreds of millions of years later than every textbook had assumed, a

On December 17, 2020, a small Chinese spacecraft called Chang’e 5 landed in the Pacific Ocean carrying approximately 1.731 kilograms of lunar material...

Source: Space Daily

Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in microgravity — meaning a six-month mission costs them as much bone mass as a postmenopausal woman loses in a year — and the countermeasures NASA developed to slow that loss are now b
NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in microgravity — meaning a six-month mission costs them as much bone mass as a postmenopausal woman loses in a year — and the countermeasures NASA developed to slow that loss are now b

The human skeleton is, on every available physiological measurement, considerably more dynamic than the standard cultural framing tends to credit. The...

Source: Space Daily

Space Exploration 3 months ago
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 1: The Apology Begins

Years of grievance against dust. It ruins lungs, suits, rovers, and Mars missions. The first installment of an apology, sort of, to the most annoying ...

Source: Universe Today

An astronaut's view of Argentina's snow-capped mountains | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2026
Artemis Program 3 months ago
An astronaut's view of Argentina's snow-capped mountains | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2026

Earth is so beautiful from afar.

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 3 months ago
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The Starlink 10-31 mission will be the 58th Falcon 9 launch so far in 2026. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled dur...

Source: Spaceflight Now

NASA & Space Agencies 3 months ago
Starfighters turns Texas facility toward microgravity flight testing

Starfighters Space, which is developing F-104 supersonic jets for satellite air-launch, is turning its Texas facility into a staging ground for microg...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Program 3 months ago
Orbital Data Centers: Power and Thermal Management for Scalable Architectures

As orbital data centers move from concept to reality, scalable power generation and efficient thermal management are emerging&#1...

Source: SpaceNews

Artemis Missions 3 months ago
I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard

Listen to this audio excerpt from Tim Goddard, NASA open water lead: At the end of their mission around the Moon, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts were re...

Source: NASA

The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight
Artemis Program 3 months ago
The Quiet Engineering Move That Could Define How a Cape Canaveral Air-Launch Operator Gets to Flight

Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Starfighters Space (NYSE American: FJET) just brought in a deep-bench engineering and integration partner...

Source: PRNewswire

Space Technology 3 months ago
SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight Test - Yahoo News UK

SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight TestYahoo News UK SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 ready for debut launch ahead of ...

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Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3
Astronomy Research 3 months ago
Nikon’s telescopes to be installed on Axelspace’s next-generation Earth observation satellites GRUS-3

Nikon’s custom telescopes will equip all seven of Axelspace’s next-generation GRUS-3 Earth observation microsatellites, scheduled for launch in 2026 o...

Source: Nikonrumors.com

Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall
Artemis Program 3 months ago
Rocket Lab Sinks 9%, Planet Labs Tumbles 6%, Intuitive Machines Slides 5%: Space Rally Hits a Wall

Pure-play commercial space stocks are getting hit hard at midday on Tuesday. Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is down 9%, Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) is off 6%, and...

Source: 24/7 Wall St.

NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
Comet & Asteroid News 3 months ago
NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some close-up pictures on t...

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 3 months ago
The cardinality wall: The hidden data bottleneck for LEO constellations

The satellite industry is entering an era defined by scale. Thousands of spacecraft are operating simultaneously in low Earth orbit (LEO), powering ev...

Source: SpaceNews