News IN Space

NASA

• NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration
  July 20, 2026 by Lillian Gipson
  An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power systems. Mounted to a Saab 340B aircraft, the engine flew at Farnborough International Air Show in the United Kingdom. It was the public […]
• From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
  July 20, 2026 by Charles G. Hatfield
  Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership and technical expertise helped turn an ambitious idea into a mission that reshaped how we […]
• Our First View of the Surface of Mars
  July 20, 2026 by Michele Ostovar
  “Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]
• Shaping the Emerald City
  July 20, 2026
  The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.
• NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits
  July 17, 2026 by Dede Dinius
  NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing (SWEET-15) […]

SpaceNews

• Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy
  July 20, 2026
• AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round
  July 20, 2026
• Mauritius becomes 70th nation to sign the Artemis Accords
  July 18, 2026
• Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand
  July 18, 2026
• Pentagon awards $7.1 million to expand U.S. production of cover glass for satellites
  July 18, 2026

ArsTechnica

• India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
  by Stephen Clark
• As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
  by Madeline Shaw, Inside Climate News
• Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
  by John Timmer
• We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
  by John Timmer