Space News
Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts take 5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS today
SPACE.com - 27 May 2026 06:05
Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (May 27), and you can watch the action live.
Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe
Universe Today - 27 May 2026 03:08
An international team led by Associate Professor Kimihiko Nakajima of Kanazawa University has captured a rare look at the early universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the power of gravitational lensing...
Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
Universe Today - 28 May 2026 00:49
In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a distant the light of a distant ...
House Armed Services draft bill eliminates SDA, Space RCO as separate entities
Space News - 28 May 2026 00:30
HASC 2027 NDAA supports realignment of the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office under a portfolio-based acquisition structure The post House Armed Services draft bill eliminates SDA, Space RCO...
The definitive census of multiple star systems within ten parsecs
Phys.org - 28 May 2026 00:00
Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we've known for a long time that that's actually relatively rare-most stars have at least one gravitationally boun...
NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
NASA Breaking news - 27 May 2026 23:45
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASAs FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dange...
Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk
SPACE.com - 27 May 2026 22:56
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder
Universe Today - 27 May 2026 22:55
The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. Many of them are far more massive than we think they should be. Now astronomers working with the JWST have found one ...
Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft
NASA Breaking news - 27 May 2026 22:40
The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM.gov.
La NASA ofrece información actualizada sobre rovers, módulos de alunizaje y misiones de Base Lunar
NASA Breaking news - 27 May 2026 21:17
Durante una sesión informativa sobre el programa Base Lunar, celebrada en la sede de la NASA en Washington, la agencia anunció nuevos contratos para el desarrollo de vehículos lunares con capacidad para transportar tr...
Girl Scouts Event Brings Space Science to the Next Generation
NASA Breaking news - 27 May 2026 20:27
In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages in a fun-filled weekend of hands-on science activities and experiments.
China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'
SPACE.com - 27 May 2026 20:00
China is melding its robotic Chang'e lunar probe activities with the country's human spaceflight program in an effort to land astronauts on the moon by 2030.
A Natural Chemistry Laboratory in Protostar Shock Waves
Universe Today - 27 May 2026 19:53
Complex organic molecules (COMS) are at the heart of life. They're created where jets from protostars slam into the interstellar medium, environments that scientists call natural laboratories. In these intense enviro...
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12 'mishap'
SPACE.com - 27 May 2026 19:28
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has declared the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 vehicle a mishap and is requiring an investigation before the megarocket can fly again.
Mars to Titan: the next rallying call?
Space News - 27 May 2026 19:11
Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we moon-to-Mars, do we then Mars-to-somewhere else? These [] The post Mars to Titan: the next rallying call? app...
Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy
ESA - 27 May 2026 19:00
Using the unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic power of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped the motion and composition of gas orbiting a black hole in the centre of Abell2744-QSO1, a t...
A New Model Helps Astronomers Study How Merging Black Holes Ring
Universe Today - 27 May 2026 18:46
A new statistical model reveals more details about the ringdown period of merging black holes.
European space industry warns EU Space Act could slow competitiveness
Space News - 27 May 2026 18:34
AMSTERDAM - European industry representatives and legal experts are worried that the EU Space Act is too slow, too rigid and too bureaucratic. Speaking at SmallSat Europe, panelists said they [] The post European space i...
La NASA anunciará la tripulación de Artemis III e informará sobre el progreso de la misión
NASA Breaking news - 27 May 2026 18:01
La NASA informará sobre los avances de la misión Artemis III de la agencia y anunciará los astronautas asignados a este vuelo de prueba durante un evento en vivo a las 11 a.m. EDT (hora del este) del martes 9 de junio...
Hot surfaces during Europe's heatwave 'seen' by Sentinel-3
ESA - 27 May 2026 18:00
Image: Europe is in the middle of a heatwave - Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image on Tuesday 26 May
As geopolitics reshape space, SpinLaunch sees an opening
Space News - 27 May 2026 18:00
SpinLaunch CEO Massimiliano Massi Ladovaz paints an ambitious picture of a rapidly shifting space industry driven as much by geopolitics and sovereignty as by engineering innovation. Ladovaz argued that SpinLaunchs [] Th...
What is Star City, the secret Cold War cosmonaut training town in Apple TV's new 'For All Mankind' spinoff?
SPACE.com - 27 May 2026 18:00
Here's everything you need to know about the forbidden city.