NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Lunar Robots: NASA Spotlights Moon Base at 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition

Robotics will play a critical role in NASA’s ambitious plan to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, presenting opportunities for the next gener...

Source: NASA

How a 17-year-old NASA intern spotted an odd signal in telescope data and found a planet with two suns
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
How a 17-year-old NASA intern spotted an odd signal in telescope data and found a planet with two suns

Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old intern at NASA, spotted an unusual signal in telescope data, leading to the discovery of TOI-1338 b, a circumbinary planet ...

Source: The Times of India

Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Remote Sensing, Imagery & Data Services Market 2026-2032 | Increasing Need for National Security, Maritime Surveillance, and Border Monitoring Enhances GEO System Relevance
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Remote Sensing, Imagery & Data Services Market 2026-2032 | Increasing Need for National Security, Maritime Surveillance, and Border Monitoring Enhances GEO System Relevance

Dublin, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Remote Sensing, Imagery & Data Services - Global Strategic Business R...

Source: GlobeNewswire

Richard Nixon’s White House had a speech prepared in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the lunar surface, and the speech written by William Safire begins “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will st
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Richard Nixon’s White House had a speech prepared in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the lunar surface, and the speech written by William Safire begins “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will st

Two days before Apollo 11’s lunar landing on 20 July 1969, William Safire, a speechwriter in the Nixon White House, sent a short memo to the President...

Source: Space Daily

NASA’s plan for a nuclear reactor on the moon could change space exploration forever—if it works
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
NASA’s plan for a nuclear reactor on the moon could change space exploration forever—if it works

Nuclear power could enable long-term lunar missions, but NASA’s timeline may be too ambitious

Source: Scientific American

Artemis Program 1 month ago
LatConnect 60 announces accelerated growth investment round to build AUKUS-aligned Highest Resolution SWIR Satellite constellation

Perth, Western Australia — 21 May 2026 — LatConnect 60 (LC60), an Australian Earth observation and AI company, announced its growth investment round t...

Source: SpaceNews

Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy cont...

Source: Slashdot.org

Astronauts who walked on the moon reported that the dust tracked back into the lunar module smelled like spent gunpowder, and more than fifty years later scientists still cannot fully explain why, though the leading theory involves regolith that had sat u
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Astronauts who walked on the moon reported that the dust tracked back into the lunar module smelled like spent gunpowder, and more than fifty years later scientists still cannot fully explain why, though the leading theory involves regolith that had sat u

Every astronaut who walked on the moon and returned to a pressurised cabin noticed a smell. The descriptions are not identical, but they cluster aroun...

Source: Space Daily

Artemis Program 1 month ago
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea

Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.

Source: NASA

Space Technology 1 month ago
Vandenberg May See SpaceX Rocket Launch, USAF Missile Test Hours Apart - Noozhawk

Vandenberg May See SpaceX Rocket Launch, USAF Missile Test Hours ApartNoozhawk SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch from V...

Source: Slashdot.org

Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse

When Scott Kelly returned from 340 days aboard the International Space Station, NASA's twin study revealed that roughly seven percent of his gene...

Source: Space Daily

Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX launching 24 Starlink Satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base - KSBY News

SpaceX launching 24 Starlink Satellites from Vandenberg Space Force BaseKSBY News SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch fro...

Source: Slashdot.org

The Senate just installed a deputy administrator who thinks NASA’s job is beating China to the moon — and the 46-43 vote tells you everything about what the agency is becoming
NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
The Senate just installed a deputy administrator who thinks NASA’s job is beating China to the moon — and the 46-43 vote tells you everything about what the agency is becoming

Matt Anderson, the retired Air Force colonel who told senators that beating China to the moon should be NASA’s top priority, was confirmed Monday as t...

Source: Space Daily

Bryson DeChambeau questions moon landing footage but believes in interdimensional beings ‘for sure’
Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Bryson DeChambeau questions moon landing footage but believes in interdimensional beings ‘for sure’

As someone who has made much of his devotion to science, Bryson DeChambeau isn’t foolish enough to fall for any old conspiracy theory. The two-time ma...

Source: Yahoo Entertainment

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Hellish Venus-Like Planets May Be More Prevalent Than True ExoEarths

Exoplanet hunters are keen to find the next extrasolar earthlike planet, one that may harbor life as we know it. But preliminary results from a new s...

Source: Universe Today

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Resolving the Kardashev's Conundrum Using a Bitcoin-Inspired Metric

A new study reevaluates the Kardashev Scale using a new framework that includes the Bitcoin network as a means of measuring the trajectory of human de...

Source: Universe Today

Space Exploration 1 month ago
Future Mars Rovers Could Mimic a Swimming Motion to Traverse the Planet's Surface

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burro...

Source: Universe Today

Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. 'Things will get worse before they get better'
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. 'Things will get worse before they get better'

Satellites forced to avoid space debris appear to have lost some of their data due to the movement. They've also lost precious fuel.

Source: Space.com

Space Technology 1 month ago
Starship Flight 12: Welcome to the Show Block 3 and Pad 2

It’s been just over seven years since a raptor engine first fired aboard a vehicle… The post Starship Flight 12: Welcome to the Sh...

Source: NASASpaceFlight

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Space Force eyes 2027 demonstrations of in-space refueling and satellite servicing

USSF-23 mission will launch vehicles to demonstrate refueling and satellite servicing in geostationary orbit The post Space Force eyes 2027 demonstrat...

Source: SpaceNews