NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Technicians and engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida use a crane to lift the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to a specialized work stand June 26, 2026,…
Northrop adds to charges on Vulcan solid rocket motor program
Northrop Grumman took another charge for the solid rocket boosters it provides for the Vulcan Centaur and suggested updated motors might not be ready until the end of the year.…
Astronomers Are Still Trying to Understand How a Galaxy’s Spiral Arms Form
Spiral galaxies, including grand spirals like the Whirlpool galaxy, are plentiful. But it’s still a mystery how their spiral arms form and persist for hundreds of millions of years, and…
Astronomers Catch a “Dark Comet” Red-Handed
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock that will remind us of that fact. One such rock…
Space Force orders 36 more Golden Dome missile-tracking satellites, for $1.75 billion
The U.S. Space Force is adding three dozen spacecraft to its growing constellation designed to detect and track incoming missiles from orbit. The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the agreements,…
Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Three New Associate Members
Washington, D.C.— July 21, 2026 —The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome Overview Energy, Loft Orbital, and Star Catcher as new associate members — companies advancing space-based energy,…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Starlink satellites to orbit a day after rare launch abort
Twenty-four Starlink satellites reached low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 21), a day later than originally scheduled due to a last-second rocket engine abort. SpaceX at first tried to launch…
US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Main Figure A Scientists used data from the L-band radar aboard the U.S.-India Earth-orbiting NISAR satellite to produce this image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja, a mountaintop in East Antarctica, poking out…
NASA Langley Celebrates Community through Music with ‘Symphony Under the Stars’ Event
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Scenes and sounds from the July 16 “Stars, Stripes, and Supernovas –…
Billions of miles and thousands of years in the making: This is the life of a Perseid shooting star
Picture it: A slash of vivid green light splits the starry sky. There for a moment and then gone, leaving nothing but a short-lived glowing trail and a moment of…