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.
NASA says the Artemis III SLS core stage was joined with twin solid rocket boosters inside the Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida, completing the rocket's short stack configuration ahead of testing.
Astronaut Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk started a spacewalk on October 29, 2026, to install and deploy a roll-out solar array on the station's 2A electrical power channel.
A NASA grant program gave Michigan State engineering student Gavin Gardner hands-on experience in engineering and business, lessons he credits in helping him co-found AG3 Labs, a military training drone company, in 2024.
Vietnam signed the Artemis Accords at Vietnam International Digital Week in Ha Long, becoming the 78th signatory, NASA says. Minister Vũ Hải Quân signed on the country's behalf.
A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day image shows Venus nearly between the Sun and Earth, appearing as a glowing crescent whose tips are called horns.
The ESA–JAXA Ramses planetary defence probe has been switched on for the first time by prime contractor OHB Italia, a milestone its team says confirms integrated systems work together ahead of a spring 2028 launch.
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