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NASA

• Ever Restless Mount Dukono Erupts
  May 27, 2026
  The volcano on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs.
• NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update
  May 26, 2026 by Jennifer M. Dooren
  NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight during a live event at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will stream on NASA+ and on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to […]
• NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
  May 26, 2026 by Kaitlyn Adams
  Students in New York will hear from NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as she answers their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 28, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event […]
• NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions
  May 26, 2026 by Elizabeth Shaw
  During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch timeframes and upcoming milestones for the first Moon Base infrastructure and exploration missions to the lunar South Pole […]
• Chennai City Lights
  May 26, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately 9:13 p.m. local time on May 2, 2026, from the International Space Station. Earth observations from the space station let us see how our planet […]

SpaceNews

• Nations opt for a mix of sovereign, bilateral, federated and commercial space capabilities
  May 27, 2026
• SpaceX wins $2.29 billion Space Force contract for military data network
  May 26, 2026
• NASA selects four companies for initial moon base awards
  May 26, 2026
• Open Cosmos’ CEO on what it takes to bring IoT to space
  May 26, 2026
• Starcloud orders Starlink lasers for orbital data center network
  May 26, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
  by Scott K. Johnson
• Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
  by Federica Sgorbissa
• SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight
  by Stephen Clark
• China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions
  by Johnny Sturgeon, Inside Climate News
• Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
  by John Timmer