Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars’s Crust
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and the potential for life. But directly studying its ancient past is currently…
APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 22… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
Europe’s Scorching Summer
Earth Observatory Science Earth Europe’s Scorching Summer Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural…
The CosmoCube Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon
A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years…
What happens when a galaxy’s supermassive black hole turns off? These dying radio galaxies could show us
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of so-called “radio galaxies” with fading “radio lobes.” The discovery reveals what happens when the supermassive black hole engines that power these vast,…
Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,000 US rocket launches per year
The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights that lift off and land within its borders, and aims to expand the nation’s capabilities to support more than 1,000…
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ cast talks losing sleep, living up to their character’s legacy, and learning to ride a horse for season 4 (interview)
Filming a high-profile episodic TV series like “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is often a Herculean task for any professional cast and crew, but toss in massive spaceship sets, a…
Strange Signals Called Long-period Radio Transits Come From Cataclysmic Variables
Long-period Radio Transients are sources that emit repeating radio and x-ray signals. The signals are polarized and coherent, and are similar to pulsars in some respects. But the type of…
New Novaspace forecast: 6,500+ EO satellites to launch by 2035
Paris, France | August 2026– More than 6,500 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to launch by 2035, generating $155.9 billion in manufacturing revenues as governments expand sovereign intelligence, surveillance,…
Trump to award NASA’s Artemis II astronauts the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NASA’s Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week. President Donald Trump will award those spaceflyers the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28)…