News IN Space

NASA

• APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky Way over Yellowstone
  August 16, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 16 – Milky… 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. Milky Way […]
• APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
  August 15, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 15 –… 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. Bright Perseids from […]
• 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.

SpaceNews

• Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders
  August 15, 2026
• 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

ArsTechnica

• So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
  by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
• 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