NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in on-orbit checkout
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on 30 August 2026 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on a Falcon Heavy, is in its on-or...
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61 years since the birth of astronaut Sunita Williams, a veteran of three space missions
Former NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams turns 61 on 19 September 2026. She was born in Euclid, Ohio, grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, graduated...
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67 years since Vanguard 3 launched to study Earth’s magnetic field
18 September 2026 marks 67 years since the scientific satellite Vanguard 3 launched from Cape Canaveral. NASA’s NSSDC catalogue lists it as 1959-007A....
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49 years since Voyager 1 captured Earth and the Moon in the same frame
On 18 September 1977, two weeks after its 5 September launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 pointed its imaging system back towards Earth. From more than 11 millio...
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NASA spacecraft identifies a new lunar crater about 222 metres wide
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has studied the Moon since 2009, has identified a recently formed impact crater about 222 metres across and...
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67 years since the first powered X-15 flight: the rocket plane that helped open the era of hypersonic flight
17 September 2026 marks 67 years since the first powered flight of the X-15 rocket plane, one of the most important experimental programmes in America...
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50 years since Space Shuttle Enterprise made its public debut on 17 September 1976
17 September 2026 marks exactly 50 years since the public debut of Enterprise, the first vehicle built for NASA’s Space Shuttle programme. The ceremon...
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From mapping exoplanets to swarms in Saturn’s rings: NASA explores concepts for the future of spaceflight
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, known as NIAC, is using its annual symposium to present ideas that ask a fundamental question: what might space mis...
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James Webb reveals IC 348 in one of its largest released images, including brown dwarfs only twice Jupiter’s mass
NASA published on 15 September 2026 a panorama of the star-forming region IC 348, taken with the James Webb Space Telescope and described as one of th...
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Spectacular purple aurora photographed from the International Space Station above Central Asia
An aurora in shades of green, red and purple was photographed from the International Space Station as the orbital laboratory passed above Kyrgyzstan....
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James Webb looks beyond the Black Eye Galaxy’s dark dust as NASA publishes new M64 view
NASA has published a new composite view of the Messier 64 galaxy on 16 September 2026, combining data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubb...
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NASA shows progress on Artemis III preparations as crew visits Vehicle Assembly Building
NASA has published a new image from preparations for Artemis III, showing NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano inside the Veh...
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