Eoptic, Inc. Selected to Supply DeepScan™ Imaging Payloads Scheduled for Launch in 2027
Rochester, NY – August 18, 2026 – Eoptic, Inc., a developer of advanced multi-spectral and multi-modal imaging systems, today announced it has been selected as an approved supplier in support…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet’s light, the picometer-stable…
NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence
NRO contract increases U.S. government access to satellite data used to locate radars, ships and other electronic emitters The post NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence appeared…
APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4975-4981: Happy 14th Landing Anniversary
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…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has signed an agreement with Planet to access that company’s satellites The post HEO to…
Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
Black holes aren’t just engines of inexorable destruction. They’re complex regions of space and time, and under the right conditions, giant planets can form in their AGN disks.
New EU sanctions target leaders of Russia’s space industry
JOHANNESBURG — The European Union has sanctioned the head of a Roscosmos subsidiary developing a synthetic aperture radar satellite system for the Russian military. The sanctions are part of what…
NASA’s SkyFall Mars Helicopters Will Feature a Revolutionary Antenna Design
Engineers developed a unique fabric-based design for a ground-penetrating radar that will be a key instrument on NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters. The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of…
