SpaceX stacks Starship V3 rocket, completes major fueling test ahead of debut launch
Space Technology 5 months ago
SpaceX stacks Starship V3 rocket, completes major fueling test ahead of debut launch

SpaceX has stacked its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster at the company's new Starbase launch pad, ahead of the rocket's 12th test...

Source: Space.com

NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge

The Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge — the fifth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a competition to advance persistent infrastructure fo...

Source: NASA

NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
La NASA informará sobre su estrategia y misiones para la Base Lunar

Read this news release in English here. La NASA ofrecerá una conferencia de prensa el martes 26 de mayo a las 2 p.m. EDT (hora del este) para comparti...

Source: NASA

SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker’s death
Space Technology 5 months ago
SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker’s death

SpaceX is now targeting the evening of May 21 to launch the latest and largest version of its Starship megarocket for the first time

Source: Scientific American

New Worlds and the Transnational Space Alliance Summit Launch the First Global Space Faire in Houston
Artemis Program 5 months ago
New Worlds and the Transnational Space Alliance Summit Launch the First Global Space Faire in Houston

December 1–3, 2026 • George R. Brown Convention Center "Return to the Moon" HOUSTON and AUSTIN, Texas, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The spac...

Source: PRNewswire

NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
Extreme Lunar Conditions Need an Extreme Test Rig

When people eventually head to the Moon for long-term exploration and habitation, they'll need equipment and habitats made of well-tested materia...

Source: Universe Today

Artemis Program 5 months ago
Breaking the Martian Sound Barrier

Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, which performed the first controlled, powered flight on another planet, was an excellent demonstration of human ingenu...

Source: Universe Today

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
Hearing the Heavens - Book Review of The Echoing Universe

Typically when we think of astronomy, we think of pictures of M87 captured on a backyard telescope or the soaring colorful peaks of the Eagle Nebula s...

Source: Universe Today

Is Earth getting brighter at night? It's complicated, new NASA 'Black Marble project' images reveal
NASA & Space Agencies 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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