NASA's Perseverance rover has spent 2026 studying the oldest rocks it has encountered, in a valley-and-ridge area west of the Jezero crater rim, and is now investigating light-toned boulders at a site nicknamed 'Idubi.'
ESA has awarded contracts to two European industrial consortia for preliminary studies on a possible European-led orbital outpost, one of several options being weighed for the post-ISS era.
NASA's night sky column for October 2026 points observers toward the eclipsing star Algol in Perseus and the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula about 900 light-years from Earth.
Expedition 75 began vein scans, exercise-equipment checks and gravity-adjustment suit tests while NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 counted down to an Oct. 1 launch, NASA reported Sept. 28, 2026.
NASA has published a nighttime image of the United States taken from the International Space Station, showing city lights looking toward New York City.
NASA reported on Sept. 28, 2026, that the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for Crew-13 were raised vertical at Space Launch Complex 40, with liftoff planned no earlier than Oct. 1.
A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry compares an unprocessed Andromeda galaxy image with a refined version, explaining that software reduced Earthly artifacts such as airplane and satellite trails rather than altering the galaxy itself.
A NASA astronomy image of the day features an August 15 Perseid meteor shooting past the central Milky Way above the prototype Large-Sized Telescope at La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
NASA's Sept. 25, 2026, advisory announced a news conference planned for 3 p.m. EDT on Sept. 28 about Starliner's development and plans for regular crew flights to and from the space station.
San Marino signed the Artemis Accords at a ceremony in Rimini on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, becoming the 76th signatory, NASA said. The accords set principles for peaceful and transparent space exploration.
A Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center ended with NASA, SpaceX and international partners voting to proceed toward the Crew-13 launch to the International Space Station, targeted for no earlier than October 1.
A Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698, released Sept. 18, 2026, shows spiral arms limited to the outer disk, forming a ring-like structure around the glowing center rather than winding inward.
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