Space

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to arrive at Kennedy Space Center, marking the transition from assembly and testing to launch-site processing.

NASA says five research aircraft will fly from Ellington Field between June 3 and June 13, 2026, supporting a student airborne science mission and conducting some low-level passes over Houston.

NASA has completed final inspection of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, clearing a major milestone before shipment and launch.

Observations of TOI-199b with the James Webb Space Telescope identified methane in the atmosphere of a cooler gas giant, supporting long-standing models.

SpaceX is preparing to send 24 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg, marking its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of the year.

ESA has selected Hibidis and SOVA-S as new Scout-class missions, backing two relatively fast, low-cost Earth-observation projects focused on biodiversity and atmospheric gravity waves.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft observed the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars during a powerful 2023 solar storm, revealing a plasma-compression phenomenon previously associated with Earth.

NASA selected seven companies for a multiple-award construction contract supporting up to $300 million in upgrades at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA engineers completed the final inspection of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s 2.4-meter primary mirror, keeping the mission on track for an early September launch.

A new Hubble image highlights the active spiral galaxy M88 and the long gravitational journey that will pull it toward the center of the Virgo Cluster.

Georgia Tech researchers say ferroelectric NAND memory chips withstood radiation doses up to one million rads, a result that could reshape deep-space data storage.

Data from ESA’s Swarm mission show that molten material in Earth’s outer core beneath the Pacific changed direction around 2010 and is now moving eastward at increasing speed.

Using JWST’s mid-infrared instrument, researchers studied the hot dayside of LHS 3844 b and found a barren rocky world with no atmosphere and a surface unlike Earth’s crust.

NASA says the X-59 is entering a new round of tests that should include its first flight faster than sound, a major step toward the agency’s quiet-supersonic mission.

NASA astronaut and U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Andrew Morgan has retired from the agency after a 12-year career that included 272 days in space and a record-setting seven spacewalks in a single mission.

NASA says the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could reveal around 100,000 worlds, expanding exoplanet searches far beyond the solar neighborhood.

The method uses strong gravitational-wave signals and relativity-based expectations to recalibrate detector data after the fact, potentially improving measurement quality.

A one-hour brightening in the Large Magellanic Cloud may mark one of the smallest gravitational lenses ever detected, with implications for rogue planets and primordial black holes.

NASA and European satellite data show a broad warm-water swell has reached the Pacific off South America, a sea-level signal that researchers say points to El Niño likely emerging later in 2026.

NASA has awarded key contracts tied to its Moon Base initiative, including two autonomous rovers and Blue Origin delivery missions aimed at 2028 lunar operations.