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• APOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435
  October 22, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 22 – The… 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. The First […]
• Fires Char New Guinea
  October 22, 2026
  Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.
• Faster to Science: A Letter to the Science Community
  October 22, 2026
  NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.
• NASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis Missions
  October 21, 2026 by LaToya Dean
  NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. During […]
• NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration
  October 21, 2026 by Amanda Barnett
  Interstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that their work marked the inception of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ninety years later, the lab, now managed by Caltech for NASA, isn’t […]

SpaceNews

• TechnoMile Recognized as a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Award Winner
  October 21, 2026
• Global Satcom Services Revenues to Reach $145 Billion by 2035
  October 21, 2026
• Space Nuclear Power Corporation Awarded DARPA Agreement for Ground Test of Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Controller
  October 21, 2026
• Solstar provides Wi-Fi connectivity for NASA proximity operations demonstration
  October 21, 2026
• Summer of Quantum: Building momentum for space-based QKD
  October 21, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Quantum error correction goes well beyond breakeven
  by John Timmer
• Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos
  by Stephen Clark
• Russian spacecraft maneuvers in "extreme proximity" to satellite used by Ukraine
  by Stephen Clark
• Batteries help reduce emissions, but how do we reduce their emissions?
  by Scott K. Johnson
• Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test
  by Jeremy Hsu