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Submit ArticleSmashed Ice Worlds Formed Neptune's Inner Moons and Rings
The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, with its largest Moon, Triton, comprising more than 99.5 percent of the mass of all of them. Triton’s incredibl...
Source: Universe Today
APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Pict...
Source: NASA
The Cost of a PROMISE
NASA may send an engineering test of the Perseverance rover to the Moon, but at what price?
Source: The Planetary Society
Interstellar Travel: The Space Age and Nuclear Rockets
Given the state of our technology, it would take a spacecraft a ridiculously long time to reach even the nearest star in our galaxy. However, scientis...
Source: Universe Today
Charon’s Mountains Reveal Moon Once Spun 10x Faster
Pluto’s moon, Charon, is one of the most unexplored (and arguably underappreciated) planetary objects in the entire solar system. This is primarily be...
Source: Universe Today
European Designer Proposes 3D Printing A Moon Temple On Astronaut Base
As NASA joins up with Europe to plan a lunar astronaut base, one EU designer envisions robotically building a fantastical Moon Temple open to all the ...
Source: Forbes
How do supermassive black holes grow? AI finds 7 spacetime-warping 'quasars' that could help solve the mystery
Astronomers found seven rare quasar gravitational lens candidates using AI, providing a powerful new tool for studying black hole and galaxy evolution...
Source: Space.com
SpaceX's Starship seen in space by next-gen Starlink satellite (video)
We just got an amazing new view of SpaceX's Starship vehicle in space, thanks to one of the company's Starlink V3 broadband satellites.
Source: Space.com
What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Tran...
Source: NASA
Blue Origin Blew Up Its Launch Pad, So NASA Will Invite Its Rockets Over For Testing
If America is to continue its role as a leader outside our home, it will need to find whole-of-society methods to navigate setbacks. This is a good st...
Source: Jalopnik
Starbase Pad 1 Retrofits Progress as Block 3 Flights Start
While SpaceX has now flown two flights out of the newly designed Pad 2, crews… The post Starbase Pad 1 Retrofits Progress as Block 3 Flights...
Source: NASASpaceFlight
Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion
Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the ...
Source: SpaceNews
NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley
On Friday, July 31, 2026, NASA leadership and Virginia government officials opened NASA’s first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years,...
Source: NASA
NASA to Host Florida Event Celebrating American Air, Space Leadership
NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital crea...
Source: NASA
Spacewalk Preps, Bioprinting, and Exercise Research Top Station Schedule
Expedition 75 is gearing up for a busy August with three spacewalks planned at the International Space Station. The orbital residents are also printin...
Source: NASA
Blastoff! SpaceX launches secret US spy satellites, nails landing in Florida [8:59]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the NROL-95 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Sp...
Source: Freerepublic.com
Astronomers Measure the Long Reach of a Quasar
There are a number of things in the Universe that could wipe out life as we know it, but — for now, and for Earth — a blast from o...
Source: Universe Today
Astronomers Spot Weird, Three-Lobed Asteroid with a Moon
Asteroid 44 Nysa has the weirdest shape yet seen for an asteroid, and that’s saying something. The post Astronomers Spot Weird, Three-Lobed Asteroid w...
Source: Sky & Telescope
NASA, SpaceX Advance Wind Tunnel Tests for Starship Rocket
NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super H...
Source: NASA
TB 26-04 Webbings for Use in Elevated Oxygen Environments
Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen envir...
Source: NASA