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• APOD: 2026 August 17 – A Golden Corona Eclipse
  August 17, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 17 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. A Golden […]
• APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky Way over Yellowstone
  August 16, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Milky Way […]
• APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
  August 15, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 15 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Bright Perseids from […]
• NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies 
  August 14, 2026 by Bailey G. Light
  NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technology.  The latest NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition invites student teams to explore new operations paradigms and advance the technologies needed to […]
• NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow
  August 14, 2026 by Jennifer M. Dooren
  In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, on and near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The multi-day, family-friendly event will showcase the next-generation aircraft, spacecraft, autonomous vehicles, and technologies that will help define […]

SpaceNews

• Lynk and Omnispace form Elveo Mobile to advance D2D services
  August 17, 2026
• Satellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained market
  August 16, 2026
• U.S. defense agencies tap three companies for satellite disposal study
  August 16, 2026
• Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders
  August 15, 2026
• U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation
  August 14, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
  by Liza Gross
• So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
  by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
• We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
  by Jacek Krywko
• Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
  by Kiona N. Smith