News IN Space

NASA

• Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
  August 26, 2026 by Sondra Woodward
  NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires more than engineering talent. It requires planning for an uncertain future: anticipating where a mission delay […]
• Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
  August 26, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, ahead of mating to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman’s science instruments are designed to help researchers understand dark […]
• NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science 
  August 26, 2026 by Sumer Loggins
  During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at the right time.  Pilots from NASA’s Johnson Space Center flew the WB-57F high altitude research aircraft from Ellington Field in Houston to Iceland, their […]
• NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned
  August 26, 2026 by Jennifer M. Dooren
  NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in support of space station operations. Watch live coverage beginning at 7 a.m. EDT. The spacewalk is expected to start at approximately 8:30 a.m. and last about […]
• NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
  August 26, 2026 by Joseph Atkinson
  EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercial partners better understand the science of lunar landings, specifically the hazards that may occur when a lander’s engine […]

SpaceNews

• LatConnect 60 and Phi Earth Partner to Connect Space and Soil
  August 27, 2026
• RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies introduces new spacecraft mission enabler
  August 26, 2026
• The threat environment and processing at the edge
  August 26, 2026
• Propulsion is having a moment
  August 25, 2026
• Space Angel secures $1.75m WA Government backing to advance Western Australian spaceport plans
  August 25, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
  by John Timmer
• Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
  by John Timmer
• Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.
  by Martha Muir, Financial Times