News IN Space

NASA

• Typhoon Jangmi
  June 3, 2026
  The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
• NASA Space Roboticist Challenge
  June 2, 2026 by Bailey G. Light
  The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group of U.S. researchers — principal investigators, post-doctoral researchers, professors, and highly qualified graduate students — who have a compelling experiment and the capability […]
• Look Up!
  June 2, 2026 by HQ Web Team
  Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola, monitoring the automated approach and docking of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 17, 2026. The orbital outpost was soaring 259 miles above the […]
• NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base      
  June 2, 2026 by Leejay Lockhart
  A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Graduate students at the university will test the technology under conditions designed to closely mimic the […]
• Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
  June 2, 2026
  Help identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.

SpaceNews

• NRO nominee says commercial space, AI are reshaping spy satellite agency
  June 2, 2026
• Global SSA Market to Reach $61B as Governments Prioritize Space Security, Resilience, and Orbital Safety
  June 2, 2026
• The importance of determining an equilibrium state for space traffic management
  June 2, 2026
• UK explores Vast space station mission for astronaut with physical disability
  June 2, 2026
• Impulse Space raises $500 million
  June 2, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth
  by Kiona N. Smith
• Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
  by John Timmer
• In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability
  by Stephen Clark
• Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights
  by Jennifer Ouellette