A dozen people will live aboard the Tara Polaris I drifting polar station for eight months, including a 120-day polar night, while ESA studies how crews cope with isolation and confinement.
NASA's Perseverance rover measured fine and ultrafine dust particles clinging to spacesuit material samples over more than 1,645 Martian days, findings that could inform suit design, dust removal and crew health standards.
NASA's Oct. 26, 2026, report described preparations for a spacewalk planned for the following Thursday, with Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk assigned to install a roll-out solar array.
NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Oct. 24 to expand cooperation in Earth observation, geospatial analytics and data technologies supporting USDA's data modernization plan.
A European Space Agency image from the Mars Express orbiter shows an ice cliff called Thyles Rupes near Mars's south pole in unusual purple, pink and red tones, colored by frost, dust and morning light.
At its Industry Space Days 2026 event, ESA recognised Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, Sener and CompPair Technologies for delivery performance and a self-healing composite material.
ESA's FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C were set to launch together on 15 September 2026 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, after being sealed inside the Vega-C fairing.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 27, 2026 shows blue noctilucent clouds above a field near Linköping, Sweden, captured in early August.
A technician inspects the large sunshade for NASA's NEO Surveyor mission, a structure designed to keep the infrared space telescope cool while it searches for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
NASA's NEO Surveyor sunshade, a structure standing 20 feet tall and covered with 864 solar cells, was inspected in a Colorado clean room in July 2026 after environmental testing and delivery ahead of schedule.
High school interns in NASA's SEES program used public mission data to model when an acoustic propellant-gauging method can take reliable readings during Intuitive Machines' IM-3 lunar mission, planned for 2027.
A Copernicus Sentinel-2 image acquired on 25 August 2026 captures southern Bolivia's Andean Altiplano near the Chilean border, including Laguna Colorada and surrounding lagoons, salt flats and volcanoes.
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