10+ hour, 27+ min ago   (194+ words) President Donald J. Trump will award NASA's Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday. The ceremony will honor astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen for their historic 10-day apace flight around the…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (384+ words) Using a novel approach involving three Martian orbiters, the team peered into the interior of the planet and detected that its mantle—the layer between its crust and the core—is 400 to 750°F hotter in the southern hemisphere compared with…...

10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (186+ words) WASHINGTON, August 26. /TASS/. US leadership in space has weakened, with Russia and China nipping at the country’s heels in the space race, The Washington Post said in an editorial. "The United States has dominated the commercial space industry for so…...

10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (269+ words) Researchers have discovered a thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface throughout Mars's southern hemisphere. Based on gravitational measurements that give clues to the Red Planet's interior structure, Mars's interior southern hemisphere is around 200 to 400 degrees Celsius warmer than the northern…...

11+ hour, 9+ min ago   (357+ words) For Dr. Imene Kerraouch, the recognition has an unusually personal dimension. She is a planetary scientist whose career is devoted to studying some of the oldest materials available to researchers: meteorites, primitive astromaterials and samples originating from asteroids. Her work…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1470+ words) A proposed Titan rain-splash mechanism uses two organic-coated interfaces to close a hydrocarbon droplet into a bilayer compartment, but every critical step remains testable. By Life Signs · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit A lake on Titan…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago   (383+ words) The Red Planet’s global geography of low-lying northern plains and rugged southern highlands seems to have surprisingly deep roots, with profound implications for Mars’s ancient habitability By Jacek Krywko edited by Lee Billings An artist’s concept of an ocean in…...

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11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (466+ words) Aug 26, 2026, 10:30 ET Replicating 15,000 years of lunar exposure in just four hours, this first-of-a-kind commercial capability lets Interlune and the global space resources industry test hardware using material analogous to what it will encounter on the Moon "This demonstration is a…...

11+ hour, 30+ min ago   (299+ words) Public Affairs Officer, NASA Langley Research Center EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA…...