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NASA

• Artemis III SLS Core Stage Joins Boosters at Kennedy
  October 28, 2026 by Tiffany L. Fairley
  NASA’s Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is integrated alongside the twin solid rocket boosters on Oct. 28 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Technicians lifted the 212-foot rocket stage from the facility’s High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed […]
• NASA University Challenge Ignites Trajectory of Drone Entrepreneur
  October 28, 2026 by Jim Banke
  Five years ago, Gavin Gardner was a Michigan State University engineering student researching next-generation drone technology as part of a NASA grant. Garder expected the research to be demanding – but he was surprised that navigating the financial side of the work presented an even greater challenge. Although Gardner was used to leading fellow students […]
• NASA Selects 19 New Citizen Science Proposals in 2026
  October 28, 2026
  So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announced that their project volunteers have now discovered most of the known brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are similar to planets. The Zooniverse platform, […]
• Webb Sees Turbulent Star Nursery
  October 28, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  In this Webb image released on Oct. 22, 2026, we see a turbulent cauldron of star formation filled with dense clumps of gas. This region is named N159 and is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This region has a lower metallicity […]
• Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at ‘Nazca’
  October 28, 2026
  Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 Following the Basque Lakes drill campaign, Curiosity has returned to a spot just a few meters away from the “Chiu Chiu” block to conduct our next drill campaign. “Chiu Chiu” itself wasn’t a good candidate for […]

SpaceNews

• Flexell Space and Satoro Agree to Collaborate on In-Orbit Demonstration of Next-Generation Space Solar Cells
  October 28, 2026
• Ukrainian startup, GomSpace test satellite for future communications network
  October 27, 2026
• Craft Prospect kicks off PERSEUS project to advance optical communications for space
  October 27, 2026
• Flexell Space Establishes French Subsidiary to Strengthen European Presence
  October 26, 2026
• Astranis Upgrades Falcon 9 Launch Contract to Dedicated Mission for Entire Block 4 Production Run of Satellites
  October 26, 2026

ArsTechnica

• A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
  by Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News
• Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
  by John Timmer
• Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
  by Tereza Ondráčková, wired.com