News IN Space

NASA

• NASA SBIR/STTR Phase I and II BAA, 2026 Appendix A and B are now live! Offers due May 21, 2026, 5:00PM EDT
  April 22, 2026 by Sonja Caldwell
  https://www.nasa.gov/sbir_sttr/nasa-sbir-sttr-program-program-year-2026-information-hub
• NASA’s 777 Aircraft Returns Home with Science Flights on the Horizon
  April 22, 2026 by Charles G. Hatfield
  NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency’s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from a giant passenger plane into the agency’s next-generation airborne science laboratory. After a check flight and a three-hour transit from Waco, the aircraft returned to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on April 22. Since January […]
• NASA Targets Early September for Roman Space Telescope Launch
  April 22, 2026 by Ashley Balzer
  NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team now is targeting as soon as early September 2026 for launch, ahead of the agency’s commitment to flight no later than May 2027. “Roman’s accelerated development is a true success story of what we can achieve when public investment, institutional expertise, and private enterprise come together to take […]
• NASA Astronaut Anil Menon to Discuss Upcoming Launch, Mission
  April 22, 2026 by Elizabeth Shaw
  NASA will host a news conference at 1:45 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 29, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to preview astronaut Anil Menon’s upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including […]
• Night and (Earth) Day
  April 22, 2026 by Monika Luabeya
  This image, released in celebration of Earth Day, shows the terminator – the line between night and day – on Earth. The Artemis II astronauts captured this view on April 2, 2026, during their journey to the Moon. NASA science improves life on Earth every day. The agency provides insights on our home planet that […]

SpaceNews

• Trump picks industry executive Roger Mason to lead National Reconnaissance Office
  April 22, 2026
• FCC clears AST SpaceMobile constellation as launch setback clouds ramp-up
  April 22, 2026
• Space Force awards contracts to Leidos, MapLarge for ‘battle planning’ software
  April 22, 2026
• Kigali to Host IAF Global Space Conference on Climate Change 2026 – A First for Africa
  April 22, 2026
• NASA sets early September launch date for Roman Space Telescope
  April 22, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Physicists think they've solved the muon mystery
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies
  by John Timmer
• Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
  by John Timmer
• Pentagon pulls the plug on one of the military's most troubled space programs
  by Stephen Clark
• Meet Bruce, the "beak-jousting" parrot
  by Jennifer Ouellette