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• NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
  October 13, 2026 by Gerelle Q. Dodson
  NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday, Nov. 1, following the retirement of Katherine Van Hooser, who will conclude more than 35 years of distinguished service to the agency on Wednesday, Oct. 21. In her new role, Koch will help lead NASA’s engineering community, […]
• Comparing Off-World Rover Driving Distances
  October 13, 2026
  Description This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and moving across the surface; the figures shown for those two are distances driven as of Oct. 11, 2026. As of that date, […]
• NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team
  October 13, 2026
  Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet. Positioned in front of the team is OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments […]
• Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive
  October 13, 2026
  Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. 11, 2026, the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. During that sol’s drive, spanning 299.6 feet (91.31 meters), the mission passed a major milestone: pushing Perseverance’s total […]
• Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation
  October 13, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova Remnants and Proxies for ReIonization Testbed Experiment (SPRITE) CubeSat, and the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) mission will demonstrate […]

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ArsTechnica

• They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
  by Karl Mathiesen, WIRED.com
• High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
  by Jacek Krywko
• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
  by Jacek Krywko
• What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
  by John Timmer