News IN Space

NASA

• NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way
  April 17, 2026 by Monika Luabeya
  An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy. The […]
• Spring Rains Saturate Michigan
  April 17, 2026
  Above-normal precipitation has swollen rivers and damaged infrastructure statewide.
• NASA Invites Media to Latvia Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
  April 16, 2026 by Elizabeth Shaw
  The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science; Jānis Beķeris, chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United States; and […]
• At the Edge of Light
  April 16, 2026 by Monika Luabeya
  In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. A section of Orientale Basin is visible along the upper right portion of the lunar disk, its structure subtly revealed under […]
• Eyeing the Richat Structure
  April 16, 2026
  The circular geologic feature in northwestern Africa can be hard to recognize from the ground, but it is obvious when viewed from space.

SpaceNews

• New EU Space Act draft seen as a step backward
  April 17, 2026
• D2D services are at risk of becoming too complicated and siloed
  April 17, 2026
• Qingzhou prototype cargo spacecraft completes rendezvous tests in orbit 
  April 17, 2026
• India’s TakeMe2Space sets sights on 50-kilowatt data center
  April 16, 2026
• Countering missile threats ‘left of launch’
  April 16, 2026

ArsTechnica

• After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars
  by Stephen Clark
• OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
  by John Timmer
• Meet the Quantum Kid
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?
  by Jonathan M. Gitlin