NASA's Roman Telescope Enters Final Commissioning
NASA says its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully functional and has entered science commissioning, the last step before regular…
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Canada Opens Space Act Consultations, PNT Plan
Ottawa opened consultations on a new Canadian space act and released its first plan to make positioning, navigation and timing services…
NASA's Psyche Fires Thrusters Toward Metal Asteroid
After its Mars flyby, NASA's Psyche is now firing its xenon thrusters almost nonstop and stays on track to reach the metal-rich asteroid…
WMO Urges Early Action as Strong El Niño Builds
The WMO says the current El Niño could be unprecedented and is urging aid groups to use forecasts and early warnings before floods, drought…
Hubble Gravitational Lens Images Prep for Roman
A new Hubble image shows a galaxy 4.5 billion light-years away bending light from one 8 billion light-years away, part of NASA's prep for…
NASA FarmFlux Flights Begin Over Texas Farms
NASA's FarmFlux mission flies a low-altitude research plane over farmland near Amarillo, Texas, from Oct. 22 to Nov. 9 to measure farm…
Northwestern Physicists Trap One Antimatter Particle
Northwestern physicists held a single positron, the antimatter twin of the electron, in a wall-free trap for months, cooled to its lowest…
NASA's New Faster Way to Pick Science Missions
NASA's Competition Model 2.0 judges science missions on the science first and could cut selection time by up to 45%. A virtual town hall is…
NASA RS-25 Engine Test at Stennis for Artemis
NASA hot-fired RS-25 engine No. 10001 at Stennis Space Center on Oct. 21, 2026, for 500 seconds at up to 111% power to test flight parts…
Joshua Kutryk's first spacewalks: Oct. 29 and Nov. 5
CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA's Anil Menon will install the space station's last two roll-out solar arrays on spacewalks on Oct. 29…
NASA Moon rovers update: VIPER 2027, LTVs by 2028
NASA's Moon Base update: VIPER is fully built and set to hunt for water at the lunar South Pole in 2027, and two crew rovers are due on the…
Thwaites Glacier may add more to sea level rise: NASA
A NASA JPL model that treats Thwaites Glacier's grounding line as a wide zone matched satellite records four times better and, in some…
Planet born after its star died: a white dwarf clue
Rare niobium in white dwarf HS 0209+0832 points to a planet that formed from a dying star's debris, a first, say astronomers using Hubble…
NASA Mars helicopter blades target much longer flights
A thinner NASA rotor blade, roamx-0201, could let future Mars helicopters fly up to 18.7 km in one go, versus Ingenuity's 0.7 km,…
NASA study maps human impact on Earth's water
A NASA study of 23 years of GRACE gravity data found 40 regions where irrigation, reservoirs and land use shape water storage, with steep…
NOAA and Cowboy Space to test in-orbit weather data
NOAA signed a two-year research deal with Cowboy Space to test processing weather satellite data in space, to get data to forecasters…
Euclid space telescope discovers its first new comet
ESA says Euclid has found its first previously unknown comet, C/2026 S1 (Euclid), about 1.3 billion km away on a long orbit high above the…
Japan launches MMX probe to Mars moon Phobos
JAXA launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket on Oct. 20 (JST), starting the first mission to collect samples from a Mars moon and…
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