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White water ice cloud streaming from the Arsia Mons volcano across the tan surface of Mars, seen from above by Mars Express

A Mars Cloud May Form by Physics No One Has Seen in a Planetary Atmosphere

A study in Nature Geoscience says Mars's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud probably forms by homogeneous nucleation, in which water vapour turns directly to ice. The process has never been observed in a

October 14, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center carrying NASA's Roman Space Telescope

Roman Telescope’s Camera Beats Its Optics Target by Nearly 30%

NASA says the Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument optics measure 63 nanometers RMS against a requirement of about 90, after a mirror nudge of one-sixteenth of a hair's width. The coronagraph's light-blocking test is still weeks away, and no

October 14, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Artist's impression of the MMX spacecraft near Mars with its moon Phobos at right

Japan-Led Probe to Launch October 20 to Fetch Rock From a Moon of Mars

An H3 rocket is due to launch the Martian Moons eXploration mission from Tanegashima at 04:41

NASA astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette looking at Earth through a window of the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II

Christina Koch Will Not Fly Again as NASA Gives Her an Engineering Post

NASA said astronaut Christina Koch, who flew Artemis II and spent 328 days on the space

NASA Tests Moon and Mars Heat Shields on a Cargo Ship Full of Station Trash

NASA sent 12 student-built capsules carrying experimental heat shield materials out of the space station inside a trash-filled Cygnus XL cargo ship that burns up on re-entry. NASA's release gives no results

October 14, 2026

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Energy Secretary Chris Wright sign a memorandum at a table as OSTP Director Michael Kratsios stands behind them

NASA and DOE Sign Space Nuclear Deal, but No Release Gives a Power Rating

NASA and the Energy Department signed a memorandum on space nuclear power and propulsion that runs from fuel production to launch, effective November 1. The release names no reactor power rating, budget

October 14, 2026

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Technicians in white cleanroom suits watch as a crane lowers a lunar lander into a large thermal vacuum chamber at JPL

Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL’s Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

Voyager Technologies' Griffin-1 lander has passed vibration, acoustic, electromagnetic and thermal vacuum tests at NASA's JPL ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch to the lunar south pole. NASA's account gives no test

October 14, 2026

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A crescent Earth sets behind the edge of the cratered Moon in a photograph taken by the Artemis II crew

Artemis II Crew Saw Five Moon Flashes; the One Camera Clip Checked Saw None

Artemis II's crew reported five impact flashes on the dark Moon, likely the faintest ever seen by human eyes, according to NASA's preliminary lunar science report. A short Orion camera clip reviewed

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Satellite map of Antarctic sea ice concentration on September 14, 2026, with a yellow line marking the 1981 to 2010 median extent

Antarctic Sea Ice Slides Toward Record Lows, NSIDC Says, or Nearly So

Antarctic sea ice is melting back at record-low daily extents, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said, though a later paragraph of its report calls it only close to the record.

October 14, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Artemis III astronauts in white cleanroom suits lean over a railing to view the Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center

Artemis III Crew Will Rehearse a Pad Escape as NASA Stacks Its Rocket

NASA has finished stacking the Artemis III boosters and set an October 23 update on its Moon plans, with the crew due to rehearse an emergency pad exit. Nothing NASA has published

October 14, 2026

News·Science

The transition between the Moon's near side and far side photographed by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby

China Will Show Moon Samples From Both Sides at an Expanded Airshow China

China will display lunar samples from both the near side (Chang'e-5) and far side (Chang'e-6) of the Moon at Airshow China in Zhuhai from December 7 to 13, in an expanded edition

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Five members of the SPEARS battery team stand and sit beside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Langley Research Center

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

NASA's SPEARS solid-state battery cells worked down to minus 80 degrees Celsius in vacuum tests at Langley and survived minus 170. The Moon's South Pole night reaches minus 200, and the release

October 14, 2026

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Composite image of the Treble Clef radio source, looping pink filaments inside a blue haze of hot cluster gas, with background stars

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

A radio shape nicknamed the Treble Clef, first taken for a pulsar, appears to be a black hole's old outburst revived by a collision of two galaxy clusters behind the Milky Way,

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Artist's concept of a banded red and purple brown dwarf against a starry sky and the Milky Way

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

NASA's SPHEREx telescope measured 37 nearby brown dwarfs and found water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane. The best models still struggle through the cloudy transition, and thousands more objects are waiting

October 14, 2026

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A Mars Cloud May Form by Physics No One Has Seen in a Planetary Atmosphere

Roman Telescope’s Camera Beats Its Optics Target by Nearly 30%

Japan-Led Probe to Launch October 20 to Fetch Rock From a Moon of Mars

Christina Koch Will Not Fly Again as NASA Gives Her an Engineering Post

NASA Tests Moon and Mars Heat Shields on a Cargo Ship Full of Station Trash

NASA and DOE Sign Space Nuclear Deal, but No Release Gives a Power Rating

Griffin-1 Lander Passes JPL’s Shake, Roar and Freeze Tests; No Launch Date

Artemis II Crew Saw Five Moon Flashes; the One Camera Clip Checked Saw None

Antarctic Sea Ice Slides Toward Record Lows, NSIDC Says, or Nearly So

Artemis III Crew Will Rehearse a Pad Escape as NASA Stacks Its Rocket

China Will Show Moon Samples From Both Sides at an Expanded Airshow China

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

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