Artemis II and Webb: Two windows onto the cosmos
A razor-thin arc of sunlit Earth, a spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away laid bare in infrared: Artemis II and the Webb telescope deliv…
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Starship Fires Up, Rocket Lab Cashes In: NewSpace Hits Its Stride
On May 7, 2026, SpaceX ignited all 33 Raptor engines on Booster 19 in a full-duration static fire. Meanwhile, Rocket Lab reported strong rev…
Artemis II and Webb: humanity's week of two distances
One photograph shows Earth as a sliver of light taken by Artemis II astronauts. Another reveals a dust-laden spiral galaxy through Webb's in…
NASA rotor blades for next Mars helicopter break the sound barrier
Inside a vacuum chamber replicating Mars's thin atmosphere, NASA engineers pushed experimental rotor blades past the speed of sound. The res…
NASA Taps Brian Hughes to Lead Launch Operations at Two Key Sites
NASA has appointed Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, placing Kennedy Space Center and Wallops Flight Facility under a si…
Light Against the Dark: Artemis II and Webb's Galaxy Portrait
Within days of each other, NASA and the Webb telescope partnership released two striking images: a sliver of Earth glowing at the edge of sp…
JPL Rotor Blades Break the Sound Barrier on Mars Simulation
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have pushed prototype rotor blades past Mach 1 inside a chamber simulating Mars's thin atmosph…
Two Windows on the Cosmos: Earth's Edge and a Distant Galaxy
A glowing sliver of Earth seen from cislunar space, and a dust-wrapped active galaxy 45 million light-years away: on May 7, two missions rem…
NASA's Next Mars Helicopter Blades Crack the Sound Barrier
Inside a chamber replicating the thin Martian atmosphere, NASA engineers pushed next-generation helicopter rotor blades past the speed of so…
Webb and Hubble show massive star clusters break free faster
By surveying thousands of young star clusters across four nearby galaxies, astronomers using Webb and Hubble have uncovered a clear pattern:…
SpaceX juggles ISS cargo run and Starlink push in May
SpaceX is keeping a relentless pace in May 2026, with a Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station following hot on the heels o…
Webb and Hubble show massive star clusters break free faster
By training both the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes on thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, astronomers have fo…
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