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NASA

• NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
  May 20, 2026
  An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered the explosion. The Fermi mission is part of NASA’s fleet of observatories monitoring the changing […]
• Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island
  May 20, 2026
  The blaze spread across the southern side of the second-largest island in California’s Channel Islands National Park.
• NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Mars’ Huygens Crater
  May 19, 2026
  Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper right; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15 degrees south latitude.
• NASA’s Psyche Mission Spies Mars’ Wind-Blown Craters During Close Approach
  May 19, 2026
  This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region.
• Psyche’s High-Resolution View of Mars’ South Pole
  May 19, 2026
  Description This is the highest-resolution view of the water ice-rich south polar cap of Mars captured by NASA’s Psyche mission after it made its close approach with the planet for a gravity assist. The image scale is around 0.7 miles per pixel (1.14 kilometers per pixel). The cap itself extends across more than 430 miles […]

SpaceNews

• The cardinality wall: The hidden data bottleneck for LEO constellations
  May 20, 2026
• Isaacman expects Chinese crewed mission around the moon in 2027
  May 20, 2026
• SDA director Sandhoo takes on broader Space Force missile warning portfolio
  May 19, 2026
• Startup challenging satellite industry’s multi-orbit playbook
  May 19, 2026
• Portal Space taps Quindar for ground mission support of its maneuvering spacecraft
  May 19, 2026

ArsTechnica

• "I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
  by Stephen Clark
• Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
  by John Timmer
• 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