News IN Space

NASA

• May 2026 Satellite Puzzler
  May 11, 2026
  Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
• Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions
  May 11, 2026 by Sumer Loggins
  Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews safe during missions aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, including the successful Artemis II mission around the Moon. After joining NASA as a Pathways intern, Houghton later became a full-time engineer on the Orion Crew Survival Systems (OCSS) […]
• NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition 
  May 11, 2026 by Elyna Niles-Carnes
  NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.   Links to view the Lunabotics competition live can be found on the agency’s Lunabotics page. The competition is slated to run between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day.    Media are invited to attend the […]
• Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
  May 11, 2026
  The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.
• Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
  May 11, 2026
  The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerous ground-based and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Soon, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the […]

SpaceNews

• NASA retaining six-month ISS missions
  May 11, 2026
• BlackSky’s Lyn Chassagne on using satellite imagery to solve problems
  May 11, 2026
• Creotech plans $118 million capital raise, investment in new satellite factory
  May 11, 2026
• Special Operations Forces test mobile platform for direct satellite imagery access
  May 11, 2026
• Cowboy raises $275 million to build rockets with orbital data center upper stages
  May 11, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Do you take after your dad’s RNA?
  by Holly Barker, Knowable Magazine
• Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
  by Jacek Krywko
• Manufacturing qubits that can move
  by John Timmer
• Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
  by Stephen Clark
• DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
  by Jennifer Ouellette