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NASA and Small Business Administration partner on funding key space technologies
Space News - 6 Jul 2026 01:43
NASA is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on an effort to attract capital to invest in companies producing critical space components. The post NASA and Small Business Administration partner on ...
University Team Proposed Retractable, Pressurized Tunnels for Missions to Mars
Universe Today - 6 Jul 2026 23:24
As part of NASA's Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2026 Academic Innovation Challenge, a University of Michigan team proposed an actuated, pressurized tunnel system that would save countles...
University Team Proposed Retractable, Pressurized Tunnels for Missions to Mars
Universe Today - 6 Jul 2026 23:24
As part of NASA's Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2026 Academic Innovation Challenge, a University of Michigan team proposed an actuated, pressurized tunnel system that would save countles...
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of Los Angeles (video)
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 22:00
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.
SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 21:00
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), then landed on a ship at sea.
Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch 81 satellites early on July 7
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 21:00
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), and you can watch the action live.
More clues surface about the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 20:16
Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support similar observations made by the JWST.
Blue Origin continues work on lunar landers during recovery from New Glenn explosion
Space News - 6 Jul 2026 20:09
Blue Origin is continuing to develop its Blue Moon lunar landers, with seven vehicles in production, while recovering from the New Glenn pad explosion more than a month ago. The post Blue Origin continues work on lunar l...
Iridium folds Aireon aviation safety service into Rocket Lab-bound business
Space News - 6 Jul 2026 19:02
Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the satellite operators planned $8 billion sale to Rocket Lab. The post Iridium folds Aireon avi...
Andromeda's Newest Dwarf Galaxy is Extremely Dim
Universe Today - 6 Jul 2026 18:53
Astronomers have discovered an extremely low-mass and dim dwarf galaxy around Andromeda. Called And 35, it's an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy (UFDG) and so far, the researchers have detected only 46 of its stars. Lambda-C...
NASA Takes Flight For Americas 250th
NASA Breaking news - 6 Jul 2026 18:38
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. For 250 years, America ha...
Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 18:00
Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy neutrinos through the cosmos.
New Horizons Watches the Solar Wind as it Slows Down
Universe Today - 6 Jul 2026 17:33
Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling out beyond the Sun's influence. A team of researchers from the Sou...
A new net-membrane could clean up some tricky space debris
Phys.org - 6 Jul 2026 17:00
We've reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think of to deal with the ev...
Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian beach are 'debris from a foreign rocket body', space agency says
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 16:30
The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-looking spheres, possibly space debris, appeared on a beach.
The square kilometer array will revolutionize the hunt for alien life
Phys.org - 6 Jul 2026 16:20
With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy-with every new advanced telescope, we have the potential to see (or in some cases, listen) farther and more clearly than ever before....
Canadian Artemis II crew member to retire from space agency
Phys.org - 6 Jul 2026 16:00
The Canadian astronaut who was part of the historic Artemis II crew that successfully voyaged around the moon earlier this year is retiring from the nation's space agency, officials said Monday.
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 16:00
A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technology could in the future propel spacecraft using just the power of the sun.
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting device harnesses Earth's magnetic field to move a spacecraft
SPACE.com - 6 Jul 2026 16:00
A superconducting-magnet device that could someday propel spacecraft using just the power of the sun has completed its first orbital tests.
NASA adds three European firms to the commercial data program
Space News - 6 Jul 2026 15:57
MILAN - NASAs Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced June 23 contract awards with eight new commercial satellite data providers, three of which are European: Kuva Space (Finland), OroraTech [] The...
A New Net-Membrane Could Clean Up Some Tricky Space Debris
Universe Today - 6 Jul 2026 15:54
Weve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think of to deal with the ever-in...
NASA Seeks Industry Input on Second Phase of Commercial Space Stations
NASA Breaking news - 6 Jul 2026 15:33
On Monday, NASA released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy, aimed at ensuring a seamless transition of activities in ...