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NASA

• Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
  October 16, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively safeguarded the crew and Orion systems as the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. This rigorous analysis confirmed that the […]
• I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen
  October 16, 2026 by Jason Costa
  As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride. Mjoen, NASA’s operations manager for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, helped shape the systems and ground operations that will one day send humans back to […]
• NASA’s Hubble Spies Spiral’s Edge
  October 16, 2026
  This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.
• APOD: 2026 October 16 – Chasing the International Space Station
  October 16, 2026
  APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 16 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. To view this […]
• Isaias Dims the Gulf Coast
  October 16, 2026
  High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the lights came back.

SpaceNews

• Oct. 29: Applying AI to the GEOINT Mission
  October 15, 2026
• How NASA is thinking about a moon base
  October 15, 2026
• Agile Space Industries Expands to Seattle Area with New Bellevue Office
  October 15, 2026
• How mini-constellations could more quickly bring new tech to Europe, and to orbit
  October 14, 2026
• Jena-Optronik is proud to partner with MDA Space for its first ASTRO HP mission.
  October 12, 2026

ArsTechnica

• What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
  by Jacek Krywko
• Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
  by Stephen Clark
• Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
  by Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News
• Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation
  by Stephen Clark