NASA
NASA is helping Japan's JAXA send a spacecraft to Mars' moons, because after decades of looking at Phobos and Deimos we still can't agree on what they actually are.
NASA
NASA and SpaceX are launching 6,300 pounds of supplies, solar panels, and experiments to cure Alzheimer's, because multitasking is a thing.
SpaceNews
SpaceNews rolls out the red carpet for its 2026 Icon Awards finalists, because nothing says 'cosmic achievement' like a Dec. 1 gala in D.C. - and an Oct. 31 early bird deadline.
NASA
Arctic sea ice hit its 2026 minimum on September 12 at 4.6 million square kilometers, tying 2008, 2010, and 2025 for 10th-lowest - because the Arctic loves a group project.
NASA
NASA's Curiosity rover captured a stunning Martian dawn panorama, climbed more elevation than anything else on Mars, and still can't explain the weird cliffs it's driving toward.
NASA
Perseverance finds a field of suspiciously light rocks on Mars, because the planet clearly wasn't done messing with geologists.
NASA
A 600-million-year-old rock in Madagascar looks just like the Moon, proving you don't need a whole celestial body to be basic.
ScienceDaily
A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than we thought, proving even rocks need to update their LinkedIn profiles.
NASA
Curiosity drills its 48th rock target in a quad named after a Gold Rush trail, proving that even on Mars, the real treasure is the X-ray diffraction analysis you make along the way.
NASA
NASA astronaut Christina Koch will attend an Eagles-Rams game to promote space exploration, because nothing says 'Artemis' like a selfie station and an inflatable logo.
NASA
NASA captures the full moon rising over an erupting Mount Etna because a quiet lunar phase would have been too boring.
NASA
NASA wants college students to fix lunar communications, offering cash prizes to whoever can solve the one problem every Earthling already knows too well.
SpaceNews
Economist Enterprise's 4th annual Space Economy Summit returns to Orlando, proving that space is no longer just for rocket scientists but also for Tesco executives.
The Guardian
A slow-moving, planetary-scale 'kelvin' wave is heading to California, promising to raise sea levels by up to a foot and generally make El Niño's already-dramatic winter even more so.
NASA
NASA's 16-member Dexterous Robotics Team builds robots that open hatches and freezers, insists they're not replacing humans, just making sure humans have better lighting.
NASA
NASA maps 1,943 valleys under Greenland's ice, discovers some are longer and weirder than expected, and admits a few are a complete riddle.
NASA
San Marino, a country smaller than most NASA parking lots, becomes the 76th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, because the Moon isn't going to colonize itself.
Ars Technica
Disney's first TV character, Ludwig Von Drake, was modeled on Nazi-turned-NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun - because nothing says family entertainment like a duck with a questionable résumé.
NASA
NASA's new PRIMA telescope will peer into the far-infrared universe, bridging gaps between Webb and radio telescopes - because the cosmos wasn't going to explain itself.
NASA
NASA experts recommend fixing astronaut heart holes and blood clot risks before Artemis missions, because the human body remains stubbornly unimpressed by the Moon.
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