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NASA

• NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
  July 31, 2026 by Elyna Niles-Carnes
  On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card will travel with the Roman observatory […]
• APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
  July 31, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. NGC 4372 […]
• Destructive Fires Char Western Europe
  July 31, 2026
  Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
• Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA
  July 30, 2026
  The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a scientific instrument called an ozonesonde, was about to be released into the atmosphere above the Texas Gulf Coast by students from NASA’s SARP (Student Airborne Research Program), which concluded its summer session July 27. The balloon’s job […]
• NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission
  July 30, 2026 by Lauren E. Low
  NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. Burnham will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. Launch is targeted for March 2027, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and the trio will spend […]

SpaceNews

• Inside the effort to show Congress what war in space looks like
  July 31, 2026
• Space Force picks 15 companies for $981 million training range contract
  July 31, 2026
• NASA still assessing Starliner-1 flight opportunities
  July 31, 2026
• The new space wars: lessons from Ukraine and the Middle East
  July 31, 2026
• Rules of the road needed for orbital data center constellations
  July 31, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit
  by Stephen Clark
• Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
  by John Timmer
• Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
  by John Timmer
• What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
  by Jane Adkins, The Conversation
• Attitude control issues leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
  by Stephen Clark