Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s spaceflight research capabilities. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has selected…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particular class of objects they observed come in pairs…
How will NASA’s astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?
HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring more commercial space stations into the fold? It’s an interesting mix of…
‘We Want to Believe’ book explores the reality of UFOs: ‘It’s always going to be more likely that someone is wrong about what they saw’ (interview)
After all these years, we still want to believe. Whether you’re a bona fide believer or a staunch skeptic, we can all agree that UFO legends and lore is a…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 224 — The Science of Artemis
On Episode 224 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Rick Jenet are joined by Dr. David Kring to discuss the where, whys, and hows of the…
SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (video, photos)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for the company’s Falcon rocket family. A Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink spacecraft…
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 sets world altitude record
On Aug. 22, 1963, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any pilot had ever flown before. Walker reached an altitude of over 67…
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…