ESA reports that player contributions from its IMPACT game were used to train an AI model that identified 3,192 potential craters in a small patch of the Moon's surface, though the model is still in development.
NASA and its commercial partners Blue Origin and SpaceX have changed lander designs and operations as the agency targets a crewed lunar landing in 2028, with Artemis III now set to test rendezvous and docking in low Earth orbit.
NASA says Artemis III will send four astronauts into low Earth orbit in 2027 to practice rendezvous and docking with test versions of Blue Origin's Blue Moon and SpaceX's Starship landers ahead of planned lunar landings in 2028.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 23, 2026 shows the Andromeda Galaxy rising above hills in New South Wales, Australia, in a composite taken October 10/11.
Expedition 75 astronauts aboard the International Space Station bioprinted blood vessels, ran a spacesuit fit check in the Quest airlock, trained on robotic arms and set up Earth photography, NASA reported on October 22, 2026.
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.
A Romanian-led team has tested a scaled lunar crane at ESA's Planetary Robotics Laboratory; the full-size design is intended to lift up to a tonne of cargo and set it down to six metres away.
The European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team is inviting the space community to design an algorithm that matches a rover's ground-level panorama with an orbital map to pinpoint its position on the Moon.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is marking 90 years since Caltech students began rocket tests in Pasadena, while outlining future missions including helicopters over Mars, drones at the lunar South Pole and an asteroid-hunting telescope.
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.
NASA's Perseverance rover reached 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) driven on Mars on Oct. 11, 2026, setting a record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body, the mission team reported.
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.
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