News IN Space

NASA

• NASA’s X-59 Gets Freedom 250 Logo
  April 27, 2026 by Monika Luabeya
  NASA’s X-59 is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its livery – its official paint job and insignia. The one-of-a-kind research aircraft is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission to demonstrate technology to fly supersonic, or faster than the speed of sound, without generating loud sonic booms. […]
• NASA’s Perseverance, Curiosity Panoramas Capture Two Sides of Mars
  April 27, 2026 by Naomi Hartono
  NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet’s formation, watery past, and potential for life. Located 2,345 miles (3,775 kilometers) apart from each other on Mars — about the distance from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. — both rovers are exploring […]
• You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space
  April 27, 2026
  The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science!
• Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes
  April 27, 2026
  As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project scanned the Moon with their own telescopes and sent their videos to scientists to share what they saw from Earth.
• I Am Artemis: Peter Rossoni
  April 24, 2026 by Kendall Murphy
  Listen to this audio excerpt from Peter Rossoni, Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System flight manager: As a child, Peter Rossoni watched the Apollo missions launch with his family. In April 2026, he became a part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, helping enable communications as astronauts journeyed around the Moon. Rossoni’s path to NASA began […]

SpaceNews

• Seraphim’s public trust seeks to raise up to $474 million
  April 27, 2026
• Overview Energy to provide space-based solar power for Meta data centers
  April 27, 2026
• Artemis 2 came home in triumph. Artemis 3 must survive the real test.
  April 27, 2026
• FAA to begin collecting user fees for commercial launches and reentries
  April 27, 2026
• China launches PRSC-EO3 for Pakistan, lofts internet test and environment monitoring satellites
  April 26, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members
  by Beth Mole
• Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate
  by Inside Climate News
• New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
  by Jacek Krywko
• Artemis II broke Fred Haise's distance record, but he is happy to pass it on
  by Stephen Clark