News IN Space

NASA

• Johnson Photographers Honored for Award-Winning Portraits 
  May 18, 2026 by Sumer Loggins
  Three photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center who inspire the world through visual storytelling earned top honors in the portrait category at the 2025 NASA Imagery Experts Program Annual Awards.  “Congratulations to all three on this impressive achievement and for capturing such breathtaking imagery,” said Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche. “Their work represents the collaboration, precision, […]
• NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars
  May 18, 2026
  In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Using instruments aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, scientists identified a phenomenon known to occur in Earth’s magnetosphere, where charged particles are squeezed like toothpaste […]
• NASA Selects Next Class of Space Health Postdoctoral Fellows
  May 18, 2026 by Nathan Cranford
  The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) has selected two early‑career scientists for its next class of postdoctoral fellows. The new fellows will begin their projects in May, focusing on space food systems and astronaut eye health. The TRISH Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports independent research that advances biomedical, behavioral, and technological approaches relevant […]
• Beacon of Light
  May 18, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  The heart of galaxy M77 shines brightly in this May 7, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled by the strong gravity of the central black hole into a tight and rapid orbit around it. The motion of the gas causes it to heat up, […]
• NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station
  May 15, 2026 by Gerelle Q. Dodson
  The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX spacecraft, loaded with nearly 6,500 pounds […]

SpaceNews

• European imaging companies step in to fill warzone gap
  May 18, 2026
• Four NASA payloads to fly on Astrolab’s first lunar rover
  May 18, 2026
• Inside Golden Dome’s push to court commercial tech firms and investors
  May 18, 2026
• Tomorrow.io adds $35 million to DeepSky funding round
  May 18, 2026
• House bill restores funding for TraCSS
  May 18, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades
  by Kiona N. Smith
• Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease
  by Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine
• Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
  by John Timmer
• Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO
  by Stephen Clark