Stories in Science
NASA reported on Oct. 16, 2026, that five spacecraft were docked at the station following Dragon's arrival, while astronauts unloaded science supplies and prepared experiments and solar-array work.
A UK project funded under ESA's NAVISP programme has reached a milestone in modelling national dependence on position, navigation and timing services, letting planners test disruption scenarios before they occur.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope imaged the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, as part of a survey of satellite galaxies around Milky Way-like hosts.
ESA’s 19 August 2026 update described a pre-launch briefing and an Ariane 6 launch then planned for 27 August.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image showing numerous protostars and stars within the glowing gases of NGC 7129, a stellar nursery about 3,300 light-years from Earth, the agency said in an image article published Oct. 20, 2026.
NASA’s Landsat 9 imaged Bieszczady National Park on October 8, 2026, showing beech forests turning red and gold and tan patches of subalpine polonina meadows.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appointed Stephen Cash to lead the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19, the agency announced Oct. 16.
ESA says its Proba-3 satellite pair created an artificial eclipse for the 65th time on 12 August 2026, hours before a total solar eclipse crossed parts of Europe.
The European Space Agency's weekly image roundup for 17–21 August 2026 features astronaut Sophie Adenot during EVA-97, a large iceberg calving from Petermann Glacier and an eclipse photographed by Cayetana Saiz.
Nighttime lights along the Florida Panhandle dimmed sharply after Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin on October 9, 2026, then returned to near pre-storm levels within days, according to NASA Earth Observatory imagery published October 16, 2026.
NASA Glenn Research Center uses rotating rakes, microphone phased arrays, hot wire anemometry and laser Doppler velocimetry to record airflow and noise data that help validate aircraft noise prediction methods.
Expedition 75 crew members bioprinted blood vessel samples, processed tumor specimens and prepared for two spacewalks planned for Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, NASA reported.
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