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NASA

• APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy
  September 18, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… 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. Messier 33: The […]
• NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector
  September 17, 2026 by Jessica Taveau
  NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida […]
• NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station
  September 17, 2026 by Lauren E. Low
  Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than October to launch […]
• NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle
  September 17, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the vehicle Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign changed the agency’s plans. Nearly 100,000 fans of the Star Trek television series wrote the White House urging that the […]
• APOD: 2026 September 17 – A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
  September 17, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 17 – A… 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. A Treasure […]

SpaceNews

• Satrec Initiative to build 10-centimeter-class optical satellites for Hanwha constellation
  September 17, 2026
• Simera Sense and IDOM partner to develop and produce xScape350 optical system as demand for high-resolution EO imagery surges
  September 17, 2026
• Inside Europe’s push for space autonomy with Josef Aschbacher
  September 17, 2026
• Icarus Robotics tests Joy in Canada ahead of ISS flight
  September 17, 2026
• Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the BMC3I TAP Lab, Selects Focus Area Cohort Teams for Cohort 26.A
  September 17, 2026

ArsTechnica

• EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
  by Ashley Belanger
• A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack
  by Dan Goodin
• Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse's cortex
  by John Timmer
• Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls
  by Jennifer Ouellette