House Appropriators advance key NASA funding bill
NASA & Space Agencies 5 months ago
House Appropriators advance key NASA funding bill

The bill keeps NASA funding flat with the currently enacted budget, but reprioritizes funding levels across the agency, including a 17% cut to Science...

Source: The Planetary Society

Netverge Introduces Artemis Dispatch: Natural-Language Reporting and Reusable Skills for the Artemis Engine
Artemis Program 5 months ago
Netverge Introduces Artemis Dispatch: Natural-Language Reporting and Reusable Skills for the Artemis Engine

Ask in plain English, get evidence-backed answers about your operations, and save the path as a reusable skill the whole team can run. LOS ANGELES, Ma...

Source: PRNewswire

China has quietly built its own space station, landed on the far side of the Moon, and brought back lunar samples in roughly the time most western coverage spent debating whether they could and the gap says something uncomfortable about how we still talk
Space Technology 5 months ago
China has quietly built its own space station, landed on the far side of the Moon, and brought back lunar samples in roughly the time most western coverage spent debating whether they could and the gap says something uncomfortable about how we still talk

Over the past seven years, China has done several things that, in space policy terms, are not small. It has built and crewed its own modular space sta...

Source: Space Daily

The Hypersonic Test Bottleneck Is Real — And Five Companies Are Building the Infrastructure to Fix It
Artemis Program 5 months ago
The Hypersonic Test Bottleneck Is Real — And Five Companies Are Building the Infrastructure to Fix It

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Source: GlobeNewswire

NASA’s Artemis III Mission Slips to Late 2027, Delaying the Next Crewed Moon Landing
Artemis Missions 5 months ago
NASA’s Artemis III Mission Slips to Late 2027, Delaying the Next Crewed Moon Landing

The future of the Artemis missions are constantly evolving. The post NASA’s Artemis III Mission Slips to Late 2027, Delaying the Next Crewed Moon Lan...

Source: Twistedsifter.com

Artemis Program 5 months ago
Virgin Galactic reaffirms plans to begin commercial service this year

Virgin Galactic said May 14 it remains on track, technically and financially, to start commercial flights of its next-generation suborbital spaceplane...

Source: SpaceNews

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obv...

Source: NASA

NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon
Artemis Missions 5 months ago
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon

SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting

Source: Theregister.com

Artemis Program 5 months ago
Siemens Opcenter RDnL

View CSAF Summary Opcenter RDnL is affected by missing authentication in critical function in ‘ActiveMQ Artemis’. An unauthenticated attacker within t...

Source: Cisa.gov

Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask
Artemis Program 5 months ago
Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask

Landing on the Moon can disturb its environment – people are discussing how to balance those concerns with political and economic goals.

Source: The Conversation Africa

We still can't see dark matter. But what if we can hear it?
Astronomy Research 5 months ago
We still can't see dark matter. But what if we can hear it?

Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter "butter," scientists say.

Source: Space.com

Artemis Program 5 months ago
Chinese satellite maker MinoSpace seeks $736 million in IPO

Chinese satellite maker MinoSpace has seen its initial public offering application accepted, seeking $736 million for constellation and product expans...

Source: SpaceNews

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
Dark Matter May Have Left Its Fingerprint in a Gravitational Wave.

Dark matter makes up roughly 85 percent of all the matter in the universe. We have never directly detected a single particle of it. But a new method d...

Source: Universe Today

Astronomy Research 5 months ago
This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 15 – 24

The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter — the three brightest celestial objects after the Sun — will form up beautifully in twilight this Monday, Tuesday, and We...

Source: Sky & Telescope

SpaceX Sets May 19 Launch Date for Critical Starship Version 3 Test in Texas
Artemis Program 5 months ago
SpaceX Sets May 19 Launch Date for Critical Starship Version 3 Test in Texas

SpaceX plans the first flight of Starship Version 3 for May 19, 2026, crucial for Mars colonisation and NASA's Artemis lunar program.

Source: Ibtimes.com.au

Artemis Missions 5 months ago
Artemis III: The Mission That Has to Work Before Humans Can Return to the Moon.

Artemis II has barely left the headlines. On April 1st 2026, four astronauts climbed aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, rode the most powerful rocke...

Source: Universe Today

NASA wants to fly a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars before 2028 ends, and the real test is whether Jared Isaacman can push the agency past its 60-year nuclear-space stall
Space Technology 5 months ago
NASA wants to fly a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars before 2028 ends, and the real test is whether Jared Isaacman can push the agency past its 60-year nuclear-space stall

NASA says it will launch a nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars before the end of 2028, a deadline that would move space nuclear propulsi...

Source: Space Daily

The Artemis II crew briefed Congress in May; weeks earlier, the same agency’s science directorate faced a 47% cut while human exploration was spared
Artemis Missions 5 months ago
The Artemis II crew briefed Congress in May; weeks earlier, the same agency’s science directorate faced a 47% cut while human exploration was spared

NASA's Artemis II crew brought a plush zero-gravity indicator to Capitol Hill in May 2026, weeks after the White House proposed cutting the agenc...

Source: Space Daily

Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees
Artemis Program 5 months ago
Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eeri...

Source: Science Daily

NASA just confirmed the SLS upper stage on Artemis 3 will be replaced with a hollow spacer, and the choice quietly tells you the Moon landing has officially moved to Artemis 4
Artemis Missions 5 months ago
NASA just confirmed the SLS upper stage on Artemis 3 will be replaced with a hollow spacer, and the choice quietly tells you the Moon landing has officially moved to Artemis 4

NASA confirmed on May 13 that the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 3 will fly without a functioning upper stage. In place of the Interim Cryogen...

Source: Space Daily