ESA recreated its 1990s tandem-satellite approach with two Copernicus Sentinel-1 craft, producing one-day repeat radar imaging of the same Antarctic region to measure glacier motion and grounding lines.
ESA says its FLEX Earth Explorer and Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites launched together on a Vega-C rocket from French Guiana on 15 September, the rocket's first dual launch.
A video featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day captured Ganymede passing in front of Io on October 20, 2026, an event known as a mutual occultation of Jupiter's moons.
NASA's Perseverance rover imaged a contact between two distinct rock types at a target called "Tinga" near the southern border of the "Idubi" outcrop, a feature the mission team says could shed light on the region's geologic history.
ESA and ISRO signed an exchange of letters extending their Cooperative Agreement by five years, to 8 January 2032, adding space weather and exploration to its scope.
ESA reports that receivers in Andøya, Norway, and at its ESTEC laboratory in the Netherlands established positions using Galileo's encrypted test signal, the first real-world use of the upcoming Signal Authentication Service, during the Jammertest interference exercise.
A Rice University intern reflects on how a Johnson Space Center guidance and navigation engineer mentors interns while they work on tools for the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle and Orion docking systems.
NASA mission managers approved a Thursday spacewalk by Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk to install a new roll-out solar array on the International Space Station's port-side truss, a roughly six-hour-and-45-minute job.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy about 55 million light-years away whose central bulge extends at a right angle to its disc, with inner stars and gas rotating perpendicular to the rest of the galaxy.
A special Astronaut Pikachu plush travelled to the International Space Station as part of a collaboration between ESA and The Pokémon Company International, ESA reported on 21 September 2026.
The 18 September 2026 announcement combined an ESA open-day exhibition debut with museum activities scheduled through April 2027.
NASA's Science Mission Directorate has selected nineteen proposals for 2026 that will create new ways for volunteers to take part in NASA science, split between the Citizen Science Seed Funding Program and the Science Activation Program.
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