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NASA

• APOD: 2026 October 1 – Harvest Moon with Erupting Mount Etna
  October 1, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 1 –… 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. Harvest Moon with […]
• An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta
  October 1, 2026
  Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba’s northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 growing season.
• Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them
  September 30, 2026
  Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Curiosity surprised us at the beginning of the week with a change in rock texture — instead of the finely layered bedrock blocks we’ve been seeing in our recent sulfate unit workspaces, suddenly we were looking […]
• Help Overlap Zoo Reveal Cosmic Dust
  September 30, 2026
  Galaxies, vast collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space. But every so often, a coincidence occurs: Two galaxies line up from our point of view on Earth (or from a space telescope) and appear to overlap in the sky. These rare overlapping galaxies […]
• NASA Adds New Science Investigations for Moon Base
  September 30, 2026 by Lauren E. Low
  Editor’s note: This release was updated on Sept. 30, 2026, to correct the name of the DISCO payload. NASA selected three new scientific investigations and their payload suites to advance our knowledge of the Moon and help pave the way for building humanity’s first lunar outpost, Moon Base. The suite of science instruments and technologies […]

SpaceNews

• Galileo Space Is Building Satellites That Turn Signals Into Answers in Orbit
  October 1, 2026
• NaviGate successfully demonstrates onboard precise orbit determination aboard D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier
  September 30, 2026
• Quantum Space Executes Launch Processing Agreement with All Points Logistics for Prime Mission
  September 30, 2026
• Commercial Defense Satcom Service Revenues to Surpass $22.6B by 2035
  September 29, 2026
• Terran Orbital Names Jamin Brown Chief Operating Officer
  September 29, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
  by Elizabeth Rayne
• A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
  by Jacek Krywko
• Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
  by John Timmer
• What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
  by Jacek Krywko