Landing astronauts on the moon 'is absolutely doable, and it's doable soon,' NASA's Artemis 2 commander says  - The Artemis 2 astronauts said they gained a deeper understanding of their Orion capsule during their moon mission —and what they learned bodes well for future Artemis flights.

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 Students Found an Ancient Star That Shouldn’t Be in the Milky Way  - Students discovered an ultra-ancient star with almost no heavy elements, making it one of the most pristine ever found. Surprisingly, it appears to have formed in another galaxy before drifting into the Milky Way. A team of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago has identified one of the...

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 SpaceX fires up next-gen 'Version 3' Starship ahead of landmark May test flight (photos)  - SpaceX just conducted the first full-duration static fire test with the upper stage of its 'V3' Starship, clearing a big hurdle on its path to launch, which is expected next month.

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 KSAT and NanoAvionics Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Smallsat Mission Operations

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 Expedition 74 Opens Cygnus XL and Unpacks Advanced Science Gear  - The hatches are open between Northrop Grumman’s second Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft and the International Space Station following its robotic capture and installation on Monday. The Expedition 74 crew is now beginning to unload some of the new science and…

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 Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 171: How NASA’s Pandora Mission Unboxes Distant Worlds  - Studying planets in other solar systems isn’t easy, especially when their host stars keep stealing the spotlight. NASA’s Pandora mission will cut through the noise, revealing what the atmospheres of these distant worlds are really made of.

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 NASA Begins Implementation for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mission to Mars  - NASA has given approval for the agency’s Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project to begin implementation, underscoring the agency’s continued partnership with ESA’s (European Space Agency) Rosalind Franklin mission. The mission is led by ESA and that agency is…

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 Remarks by Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman at Space Symposium  - As delivered by Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman April 15, 2026, at the Space Symposium.

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 Honoring Alex Goetz, a Landsat Legend  - Dr. Alex Goetz, who passed away in 2025, was a member of the Landsat 7 Science Team and a key figure in the history of Landsat science.

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 ispace and Shimizu Corporation Sign Lunar Infrastructure Agreement

 NASA's Artemis 2 moonshot was just the 'opening act' for America's return to the moon, space agency chief says  - Artemis 2 kicks off a lunar "relay race" that will lead the NASA and its international partners to a moon base and, eventually, Mars, NASA chief Jared Isaacman says.

 Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® Spaceplane Successfully Completed Milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center  - LOUISVILLE, Colo. – April 14, 2026 – Sierra Space Corp. (“Sierra Space”), a defense-tech space company delivering solutions for the nation’s most critical missions and… Continue Reading Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser® Spaceplane Successfully Completed Milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...

 Maj. Gen. Purdy highlights Space Force’s acquisition transformation successes  - During the Space Foundation’s 41st Space Symposium, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Purdy, Jr., highlighted recent wins from acquisition transformation during his keynote address.

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 Meink highlights need for talent, acquisition reform as keys to Space Force dominance  - During his Space Symposium remarks, SecAF spoke on how the talented, innovative personnel and acquisition transformation will fuel the service's success.

 3D dark energy map is mind-blowing | Space photo of the day for April 16, 2026  - Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy.

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 Interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is spraying tons of water into space every second. Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE discovers  - The Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE spotted the interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS spraying enough water into space to fill 70 swimming pools a day.

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 A worst-case solar storm could trigger panic buying and public unrest, report warns  - Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.

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 Contours of the James Bay Lowlands  - After the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated from present-day Hudson Bay, rebounding land has revealed striking nearshore topography.

 What if Dark Matter Has Two Forms? Bold New Hypothesis Could Explain a Cosmic Mystery  - A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own. The absence of a signal may itself carry meaning. That is the central idea of a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), which proposes...