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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026. Carried aboard NASA’s Psyche mission, DSOC demonstrated how data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded. On September 2, the final communications pass was made from a distance of …

Space horror is a part of our popular culture. An episode of “Doctor Who” called “Listen,” featuring Peter Capaldi in the titular role, saw the Doctor investigate a supposed creature that can never been seen. His journey takes him to the end of the universe, where he meets a stranded traveler on a spaceship. Though nothing is supposed to be …

China’s Tiangong space station just got some more protection against debris strikes. Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong during a six-hour spacewalk on Friday (Sept. 26), according to the state-run broadcaster CCTV. It was the fourth spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission, which arrived at Tiangong on April 24. You may like A …

NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions to low Earth orbit, the …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Hidden asteroids near Venus could pose a potential threat to Earth. 🔍 Coorbital asteroids have eccentricities making them difficult to track accurately. 🌀 Their chaotic orbits make long-term predictions unpredictable beyond 150 years. 🚀 Scientists propose using a telescope near Venus for improved monitoring of these celestial bodies. Recent studies have cast light on a potential …

A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing the blurring effect of the atmosphere to produce as perfect an image as possible has successfully completed tests on the eight-meter Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. The next step is to apply it to images from the Vera C Rubin Observatory when it begins science operations later this …

An illustration of a habitable zone planet orbiting the star called TRAPPIST – credit NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to reveal has now potentially been revealed. Groundbreaking new research from the University of St. Andrews has identified signs of a possible atmosphere surrounding an …

Launched as part of a mission to study the outer planets, Voyager 1 has now traversed a distance so vast that light itself—the fastest thing in the universe—would take 24 hours to cover it. The spacecraft has exceeded all expectations in both duration and distance, becoming a symbol of human persistence in exploring the cosmos. NASA’s engineers had originally intended …

Dbenitostock/Getty Images Space horror is a part of our popular culture. An episode of “Doctor Who” called “Listen,” featuring Peter Capaldi in the titular role, saw the Doctor investigate a supposed creature that can never been seen. His journey takes him to the end of the universe, where he meets a stranded …

Orbital observation On Monday (Sept. 22), NASA named its next class of astronaut candidates during a ceremony held at Johnson Space Center in Houston. In addition to recording a message to the new trainees, members of the Expedition 73 crew also shared a photo (below) of them watching Group 24 being introduced. “To the newest astronaut class, from the crew …