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Two people practice underwater operations in a Moon like environment. The person on the left is holding an U.S. flag.

NASA’s Artemis Surface Planning Runs Through Jaclyn Kagey

Jaclyn Kagey leads planning for Artemis lunar surface activities.
NASA says Artemis crews will explore the Moon’s South Pole.
Her work includes spacewalk timelines, training, and real-time operations planning.

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DT Editorial Team·May 26, 2026·via nasa.gov

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Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor packs the power of a full system-on-a-chip. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s New AI Space Processor Clears an Early Test Milestone

NASA’s HPSC chip completed its first round of environmental tests.
The processor is designed to deliver about 100 times the computing power of current systems.
The project aims to give future spacecraft more autonomy and faster onboard data analysis.

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DT Editorial Team·May 26, 2026·via universetoday.com

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This one-legged robot could be NASA's key to exploring Enceladus' plumes

NASA’s LEAP Concept Imagines a One-Legged Robot for Enceladus

LEAP is a NASA-backed concept for a one-legged hopping robot on Enceladus.
The robot would stand about one foot tall and weigh roughly 2 pounds.
It would use a spring-driven leg, wheels and reaction wheels to move and self-right.
The concept targets plume-rich terrain on a moon considered a prime site in the search for life.

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DT Editorial Team·May 25, 2026·via mashable.com

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NASA’s high-power lithium-plasma thruster points to a different path for deep-space travel

NASA JPL is working on a magnetoplasmadynamic thruster that operates at up to 120 kW.
The source says electric thrusters use about 90% less fuel than chemical rockets.
The new system is presented as a major power jump over the thrusters used on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.

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DT Editorial Team·May 23, 2026·via jalopnik.com

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NASA’s Agencywide Realignment Puts Mission Delivery and National Space Policy at the Center

NASA says mission directorates will now report directly to the administrator.
The associate administrator will also serve as NASA chief engineer.
The agency tied the realignment to objectives including Artemis, a Moon Base, and a nuclear space reactor.

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DT Editorial Team·May 23, 2026·via nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·May 23, 2026·via nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·May 22, 2026·via nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·May 22, 2026·via newscientist.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 22, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·May 22, 2026·via nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·May 21, 2026·via spacenews.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 21, 2026·via arstechnica.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 20, 2026·via universetoday.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 20, 2026·via spacenews.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 18, 2026·via spacenews.com

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The back of a white jet aircraft’s wing and tails are seen in this image. One wheel and an attached test object, shaped like a wing, hangs from the bottom of the jet. A man in a black jacket, with yellow reflective coating, stands underneath and raises one hand to the aircraft. The man is wearing ear protection. Desert sand and mountains are seen in the background.

NASA’s Growing Research Fleet Puts Ground Crews in the Spotlight

NASA Armstrong says maintenance crews are essential to keeping research aircraft mission ready.
The center added two F-15s and a Pilatus PC-12 this year.
Ground teams support a diverse fleet that includes ER-2 aircraft and the X-59.

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NASA Opens New Call for Creators to Help Tell Its Mission Stories

NASA wants up to 10 creative partners.
The call covers Artemis, nuclear propulsion and aeronautics.
Selected collaborations would use unfunded Space Act Agreements.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Campus

NASA to Open JPL Management Contract to Competition for the First Time in Decades

NASA plans to compete the next contract for managing and operating JPL.
Caltech has managed the lab since the 1930s and has long received sole-source awards.
NASA says competition could improve accountability, innovation and operational efficiency while keeping JPL in place.

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Two of the Artemis II CubeSats can be seen in the lower portion of the Orion stage adapter on the right side of the image.

NASA opens the door to more CubeSats on future Artemis missions

NASA is gathering interest for CubeSat launches tied to Artemis III, IV, and V.
The agency expects possible 6U and 12U deployments after Orion separation.
The effort keeps small research and technology payloads connected to major lunar missions.

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How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel

Space-age stressors are helping researchers rethink ageing on Earth

Long-duration spaceflight appears to accelerate several age-related biological changes.
Researchers see parallels between orbital stressors and Earthbound conditions like inactivity and circadian disruption.
Countermeasures designed for astronauts could inform healthier ageing strategies on Earth.

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Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in Mississippi

Landsat Captures the Scar of a Powerful Mississippi Tornado

Landsat 8 captured visible vegetation damage from a May 6 tornado in Mississippi.
The EF-3 storm traveled nearly 82 miles across five counties.
NASA’s image shows how satellite data can support disaster assessment.

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Representatives of the Artemis Accords signatories including the United States, led by NASA and the U.S. Department of State, met May 13–14, 2026, in Lima for the fourth annual Artemis Accords workshop.

Artemis Accords coalition grows to 67 nations as lunar mission planning intensifies

Six new countries joined the Artemis Accords, bringing the total to 67 signatories.
NASA and partner governments met in Lima to review lunar mission plans and conduct tabletop exercises.
Discussions focused on non-interference, interoperability, scientific data release, and debris mitigation.

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Staff in white lab coats observe a black and gray spacecraft in a room with warm, yellow light.

NASA Backs Robotic Mission to Raise Swift Telescope’s Orbit and Extend Its Life

NASA plans a late-June mission to raise the orbit of the Swift Observatory.
Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft will attempt a robotic rendezvous with Swift.
Swift has operated since 2004 and studies gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy events.
The mission could become a notable demonstration of on-orbit servicing.

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Starship underpins SpaceX’s growth ambitions

Starship Has Become the Load-Bearing Bet Inside SpaceX’s Growth Plan

SpaceX disclosed spending more than $15 billion on Starship so far.
The company says Starship should begin delivering payloads to orbit in the second half of 2026.
Future V3 Starlink and V2 Mobile satellites depend on Starship because Falcon rockets cannot deploy them.

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NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

NASA’s Psyche Gets a Slingshot From Mars and a Rare New View of the Red Planet

Psyche flew 2,864 miles above Mars and gained about 1,000 mph from the gravity assist.
The flyby shifted the spacecraft’s orbital plane and kept it on track for summer 2029 arrival at asteroid 16 Psyche.
The mission also tested science instruments and captured unusual crescent views of Mars.

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This artist's illustration shows what the water vapour plumes tentatively detected on Jupiter's icy moon Europa would look like. A 2014 paper based on Hubble observations showed that these intermittent plumes reach 200 km above Europa's surface. In the following couple of years, subsequent research also found them. But new research from the original discoverers is reconsidering the original findings. Image Credit: University of Cologne.

Europa’s Famous Water Plumes May Not Exist After All

A new reassessment is casting doubt on Hubble-based evidence for Europa water vapor plumes.
The original plume claim had suggested ocean material might be accessible without drilling through ice.
NASA’s Europa Clipper can still study the moon deeply, but the case for direct plume sampling is weaker.

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Isaacman expects Chinese crewed mission around the moon in 2027

NASA’s chief says China could send a crew around the moon in 2027

NASA’s administrator said he expects a Chinese crewed lunar flyby in 2027.
China has not publicly announced such a mission.
The prediction adds urgency to recent Artemis schedule and architecture changes.
A Chinese circumlunar mission would end the U.S. monopoly on human lunar flights.

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SpaceX launches CRS-34 cargo mission to ISS

SpaceX Sends Nearly 3,000 Kilograms of Cargo to the ISS as Dragon Reaches a New Reuse Milestone

CRS-34 launched May 15 carrying 2,948 kilograms of cargo to the ISS.
Dragon C209 became the first cargo Dragon spacecraft to fly a sixth mission.
Payloads include STP-Houston 11 and the Earth science instrument CLARREO Pathfinder.

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NASA releases final RFP for Mars communications orbiter

NASA narrows Mars telecom orbiter competition as final solicitation lands

NASA issued the final Mars Telecommunications Network RFP on May 14.
Proposals are due June 15, with contract award targeted for October 1.
Eligibility remains tied to earlier Mars sample return commercial studies that proposed a separate telecom orbiter.

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This is a near-infrared image from the ground-based VISTA VVV Survey. It shows the Milky Way's galactic bulge, with the location of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey superimposed over the regions the Hubble surveyed with its instruments. The Hubble's survey was completed in order to give astronomers a leg up in understanding and interpreting the Roman's results. Image Credit: NASA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI); Acknowledgment: VISTA, Dante Minniti (UNAB), Ignacio Toledo (ALMA), Martin Kornmesser (ESO)

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Is Ahead of Schedule as Hubble Prepares the Ground

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is reportedly ahead of schedule and under budget, with a September launch target.
Its 15-month Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey will repeatedly monitor a dense region of the Milky Way for exoplanets and other hard-to-see objects.
Hubble has already surveyed overlapping fields to help astronomers interpret Roman’s future observations.

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