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NASA

• 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 […]
• Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds
  August 14, 2026
  Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project.
• NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun 
  August 14, 2026
  As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever.  Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the Sun) has developed a […]
• Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field
  August 14, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. A partial eclipse was visible in parts of the U.S., […]

SpaceNews

• U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation
  August 14, 2026
• Wallops gears up for an increase in launches
  August 14, 2026
• Spire and PlanetiQ win NOAA radio-occultation contracts
  August 14, 2026
• Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in.
  August 14, 2026
• Blue Origin outlines plans for second Cape Canaveral launch pad
  August 14, 2026

ArsTechnica

• 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
• Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse
  by Scott K. Johnson
• Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad
  by Jennifer Ouellette