Stories in Science
NASA researchers, working with Imperial College London and Nagoya University, have tested a new rotor blade airfoil called roamx-0201 that simulations suggest could extend a Mars helicopter's single-flight range far beyond Ingenuity's 0.7 kilometers.
Uzbekistan signed the Artemis Accords in Samarkand, becoming the 77th country to commit to the principles guiding safe and transparent civil space exploration, NASA said.
A team reports three faint nebulas in Cassiopeia after 100 hours of observation with a special oxygen filter, alongside the known IC 59 and IC 63. Their origins remain unexplained.
ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission took its first step toward Mercury on 3 September 2026, when the Mercury Transfer Module was scheduled to separate from the stacked spacecraft after eight years in the inner Solar System.
The European Space Agency's Week in images for 24-28 August 2026 shows the Ariane 6 launch carrying the MTG-I2 satellite, astronaut Sophie Adenot at work, and other mission activities.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 22, 2026, featured an illustration of the white dwarf WD J1330+6435, shown with an accretion disk of gas and rocks orbiting it.
NASA says contract actions will advance the nuclear power module for Space Reactor-1 Freedom, planned to launch in late 2028 as the first fission-powered spacecraft to travel beyond Earth orbit.
A NASA Glenn overview describes wind tunnels, rigs and chambers used to study engine and airframe noise, from a low-speed tunnel modified in 2019 to a geodesic dome built in 1993 and a rig that first identified chevron nozzles in 1997.
ESA reports that the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite has been fixed to the top of the Vespa adapter, the upper position inside Vega-C's fairing, with the FLEX satellite below it.
Two Expedition 75 astronauts prepared for a pair of spacewalks to install roll-out solar arrays, while the crew also studied plant growth and breathing in microgravity.
A NASA Goddard team has built an airborne lidar prototype that steers laser pulses by wavelength rather than moving mirrors, producing continuous 3D swaths instead of isolated tracks. The instrument could eventually fly in space.
Using more than two decades of gravity measurements, NASA researchers identified 40 regions where changes in land water storage aligned with irrigation, reservoir filling and land-use change.
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