Space News
New NASA HEAT Coloring Book Blends Art, Science, and Cultural Perspectives
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 17:09
A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is now available for people to learn while showing their artistic side.
NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars - and it just passed its 1st test
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 15:00
A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.
NASA eClips and GLOBE Educators Strengthen a Regional STEM Ecosystem in Coastal Virginia
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 23:20
Thirty-eight science educators representing seven school districts across Virginias Tidewater region joined forces with community organizations, such as the Elizabeth River Project, to deepen their instructional practice...
Voyager very optimistic about Starlab amid potential NASA changes
Space News - 5 May 2026 22:29
Voyager Technologies says it is ready should NASA change plans for supporting development of commercial space stations.
Ukrainian forces test direct-to-device satellite imagery for frontline troops
Space News - 5 May 2026 22:21
Vantor executive: We have more imagery, more sensors but much of that data still isnt reaching the people who need it
NASA just released 12,000 photos from Artemis 2. Here are our top picks
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 22:14
You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artemis 2 moon mission.
NASAs Perseverance Mars Rover Surveys Crocodile Bridge
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 22:10
Description NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region nicknamed Crocodile Bridge on Jezero Craters rim. The panorama is made up of 980 images, 971 of w...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4879-4885: Struggle at Atacama
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 22:00
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, May 1, 2026 Chiles Atacama desert is the driest mid-latitude desert in the world, receiving only 15 millimeters ...
Watch SpaceX Starlink train circle Earth in amazing satellite video
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 22:00
A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above our beautiful blue planet.
New NGA head makes industry debut at GEOINT Symposium 2026
Space News - 5 May 2026 21:20
When Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp takes the stage for the closing keynote at GEOINT Wednesday, it will mark her first as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - a role she assumed with little f...
Subaru Telescope Reveals New Data on the Interior Composition of 3I/ATLAS
Universe Today - 5 May 2026 21:08
The Subaru Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) on January 7, 2026 (UT), after it made its closest approach to the Sun. By observing colors in the coma around the comet, astronomers could estima...
The moon's formation still remains a mystery in many ways
Phys.org - 5 May 2026 21:00
A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They do agre...
Startup develops software to help military tap commercial imaging satellites
Space News - 5 May 2026 21:00
Divergent Space platform would automate imagery requests across multiple providers
650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 20:34
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists ...
Planet 9 volunteers double known population of brown dwarfs
Phys.org - 5 May 2026 20:00
A new paper from NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the pro...
Close Juno flyby unlocks sharp new image of Jupiter moon Thebe
Phys.org - 5 May 2026 20:00
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter's inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026. The spacecraft's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) captured this image from a di...
A tiny world at the edge of our solar system grew a mysterious atmosphere, and we don't know how
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 20:00
A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star.
NASAs Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock
NASA Breaking news - 5 May 2026 19:58
Description This series of images shows NASAs Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock....
Watch as NASA's Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock
Phys.org - 5 May 2026 19:50
This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and-after waving the arm and running the drill a few times-finally detached the rock. The ima...
Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 19:13
Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.
Loft Orbital expands into full-service constellation deals
Space News - 5 May 2026 19:00
EarthDaily Analytics and UAE-backed Altair highlight shift toward constellations as a service
'SOL Shogunate' is a samurai space opera set on the moon, but with an aerospace engineer making sure it's 'getting the science right'
SPACE.com - 5 May 2026 19:00
Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure.