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NASA

• I Am Artemis: Peter Rossoni
  April 24, 2026 by Kendall Murphy
  Listen to this audio excerpt from Peter Rossoni, Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System flight manager: As a child, Peter Rossoni watched the Apollo missions launch with his family. In April 2026, he became a part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, helping enable communications as astronauts journeyed around the Moon. Rossoni’s path to NASA began […]
• The Day of the Trifid Nebula
  April 24, 2026 by Monika Luabeya
  This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in an image released on April 20, 2026. The colors in Hubble’s visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the mission’s launch on April 24, are reminiscent of an underwater […]
• NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Missouri Students
  April 24, 2026 by Gerelle Q. Dodson
  Students in Missouri will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:50 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 30, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This […]
• NASA Celebrates Decade of University Innovation in Aeronautics 
  April 24, 2026 by Jim Banke
  For 10 years, a NASA initiative has helped the agency produce breakthrough aeronautical innovations while fostering the aviation workforce of tomorrow – and the University Leadership Initiative (ULI) is still flying high, making awards with the potential to change 21st century air travel.  Through ULI, NASA has supported more than 1,100 students at 100 schools, allowing them […]
• An Agricultural Mosaic in Taiwan
  April 24, 2026
  Diversity reigns across the farmland of Yunlin County in southwestern Taiwan—a region that produces an array of crops on small farms.

SpaceNews

• Space Force awards up to $3.2 billion for Golden Dome interceptor prototypes
  April 24, 2026
• The governance gap: Why orbital data centers need certification before they scale
  April 24, 2026
• Astrobotic tests advanced rocket engine
  April 24, 2026
• FCC throws out satellite spectrum challenges as D2D dealmaking heats up
  April 23, 2026
• SpaceX wins $57 million U.S. military contract for satellite crosslink demo
  April 23, 2026

ArsTechnica

• This is who's developing Golden Dome's orbital interceptors—if they're ever built
  by Stephen Clark
• Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
  by Jacek Krywko
• Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper
  by John Timmer
• We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons
  by Stephen Clark