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NASA

• NASA TechLeap Prize: Orbital Clarity Challenge
  August 19, 2026 by Bailey G. Light
  The Orbital Clarity Challenge — the sixth in the NASA TechLeap Prize series — is a collaborative effort between NASA’s Heliophysics Division, Flight Opportunities program, and Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. The Heliophysics Division studies space weather, including how it heats and expands Earth’s outer atmosphere during intense solar activity, creating orbital drag through atmospheric density changes. The […]
• NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
  August 19, 2026 by Lauren E. Low
  Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned. However, LINK still will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to […]
• Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds
  August 19, 2026
  Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say.  Published on Aug. 19, 2026, in Science Advances, these findings highlight a need to better understand microbial persistence […]
• Ancient Milky Way Merger
  August 19, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young […]
• NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce
  August 19, 2026 by Gerelle Q. Dodson
  NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students into skilled technical jobs in the aerospace industry. The awards were made through the new NASA Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce Hubs initiative, or NASA State Hubs. This investment in state ecosystems is designed to accelerate the development […]

SpaceNews

• Hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises $1 billion 
  August 19, 2026
• Eartheye Space forges strategic partnership with IN2
  August 19, 2026
• Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost
  August 19, 2026
• Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missions
  August 19, 2026
• The space industry’s next challenge: supply chain resilience
  August 19, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
  by John Timmer
• Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
  by Stephen Clark
• X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers
  by Amy Green, Inside Climate News
• Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
  by Jennifer Ouellette