Briefing: Space Force adds cyber units to guard rocket launches
Strategic angle: ‘Cyber defense’ squadrons at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg reflect growing concern over malicious hacks.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
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Briefing: NASA Data Hackathon Inspires Community Action
Strategic angle: On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s Marston Science Library for the Environmental Monitoring through Education, Research, and Geospatial Engagement (EMERGE) event.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
A quarter-century after its first observations, Hubble provides a detailed look at the Crab Nebula's evolution.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Science Through Shadows: How Astronomical Alignments Reveal the Universe
Strategic angle: When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and sometimes across Earth.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: NASA Says Screw All This, Is Just Going To Blow Fuel Up Now
Strategic angle: NASA is saying this all with a straight face and pretending this is serious work regarding safety, not merely something it wanted to do because why wouldn't it.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Russia resumes use of space launch site damaged in accident
Part of the launch site in Kazakhstan collapsed during the lift-off of Soyuz MS-28 in November last year, temporarily preventing Russia from being able to send cosmonauts into space.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: A Fault Line in Full Bloom
Strategic angle: Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Swissto12 to build small optical relay GEO satellite for Space Compass
Strategic angle: Swissto12 signs contract to develop the first optical relay spacecraft using its HummingSat platform.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Transformational Tools and Technologies Resources
Strategic angle: Explore Vision Studies, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) Studies, and White Papers from NASA.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: How birds send heat into space measured for the first time—a hidden reflectance of feathers
Strategic angle: Understanding avian temperature regulation is crucial for conservation amidst climate change.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: Webb Telescope spots “impossible” atmosphere on ancient super Earth
Strategic angle: Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: From satellites to space data centers: Why low earth orbit is attracting billions in investment
Strategic angle: Big Tech companies including Nvidia and Elon Musk's SpaceX are making large bets on a new layer of critical infrastructure that's emerging above our heads.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: Newly discovered photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong after the Gemini 8 emergency
Strategic angle: Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name.
Editorial Staff Mar 21
NASA’s X-59 Prepares for Second Flight
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is gearing up for its second flight, paving the way for extensive flight testing in 2026.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: Rocket Lab launches eighth Synspective radar imaging satellite
Strategic angle: Rocket Lab successfully deployed the latest satellite for Synspective, enhancing radar imaging capabilities.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: Another GPS launch shifts from ULA to SpaceX as Vulcan investigation continues
Strategic angle: The GPS III SV-10 satellite will now be launched by SpaceX due to ongoing issues with ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass
Strategic angle: A research team from the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center has made significant progress in developing a sustainable farming solution for Mars.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: NASA Selects University Finalists for Technology Concepts Competition
Strategic angle: 14 university teams chosen for the 2026 RASC-AL Competition to design innovative aerospace concepts.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries
Strategic angle: The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, but its observations will enrich NASA’s public data archives.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: NASA Exploration, Science Inspire “Project Hail Mary” Film
Strategic angle: Real-life space exploration and big-screen science fiction will converge on Friday as NASA prepares to launch Artemis II.
Editorial Staff Mar 20