Encore: A Year In Mars Dune Alpha
To prepare for the day when humans travel to Mars, NASA is conducting a one-year experiment in a Mars simulation environment.
Weekly digests · 19 Oct – 25 Oct 2026
Week 43, 2026
304 stories that week, most of them about the solar system, launch & flight, galaxies & cosmology.
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CHAPEA 2: Audio Log 4
The CHAPEA 2 crew shares final reflections from inside their simulated Mars mission, and principal investigator Grace Douglas discusses the study as…
APOD: 2026 October 25 – Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 25 – Dark… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy…
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Two NASA Commercial Satellite Communication Demonstrations Launch
Two NASA-funded demonstrations have successfully launched into low Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon-5 rideshare.
Wallops Airfield Operations
The Airfield Operations Office oversees the daily operations, safety, and regulatory compliance of NASA’s airfield at Wallops Flight Facility, including hangars and…
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16:09 UTC
Amendment 80: D.3 AGIGO: Swift, Fermi, and TESS Observatories Second Opportunities in ROSES-25
The Neil Gehrels Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Observatory, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) General Investigator programs…
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Exoplanets
Exoplanets
18:44 UTC
NASA’s Dragonfly Completes First Simulated Flight
Separated from its protective backshell, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft autonomously speeds over the sand dunes of Titan.
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Solar System
Solar System
10:40 UTC
AMMB STIG Seminar, 19 Oct 2026
The MegaWave Radio Surveyor Mission Concept. Speaker: Joe Lazio
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Exoplanets
Exoplanets
20:27 UTC
CT Chamaeleontis b
CT Chamaeleontis b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star.
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Exoplanets
Exoplanets
11:03 UTC
TDAMM SIG Seminar, 22 Oct 2026
The UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX). Speakers: Dan Weisz (UCB) and Suvi Gezari (UMD)
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Instruments
Instruments
10:23 UTC
AI/ML STIG Lecture Series, 19 Oct 2026
Fine-Tuning, Reinforcement Learning, and Self-Learning. Speaker: Moritz Münchmeyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Cosmology
Cosmology
10:04 UTC
AGN SIG Vision Series Seminar, 20 Oct 2026
AGN Science with the Roman EXtreme Deep Field (RXDF) and Other Large Surveys in the Roman Era.
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Black Holes
Black Holes
15:34 UTC
A Magnetar Can Be Born When Two Neutron Stars Touch
Magnetars are neutron stars with magnetic fields a thousand times stronger than normal.
Universe Today
Stars
Stars
20:40 UTC
NASA in the 21st Century Symposium
NASA in the 21st Century History, Change, and Institutional Adaptation NASA History Office SymposiumNovember 16–17, 2027James Webb Auditorium…
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Crewed
Crewed
16:16 UTC
Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt
With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters…
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Solar System
Solar System
17:46 UTC
Current ROSES Remains Open, Next ROSES in Late 2026
Current ROSES Remains Open, Next ROSES to be Released in Late 2026.
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Orbit
Orbit
11:31 UTC
NASA OSBP Engagement 2027 L.I.F.T.
Leveraging Industry and Supply Chains for Future Technology The NASA Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) is committed…
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11:07 UTC
DGCE SIG Seminar, 22 Oct 2026
Pioneering Emission Mapping of the CGM with Aspera: The Path to Launch. Speaker: Dr. Carlos J.
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Launch
Launch
13:19 UTC
NASA Small Business Subcontracting Program – Firefly
Firefly Small Business Subcontracting Program Firefly Aerospace is a Texas-based space and defense technology company delivering launch, lander…
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Launch
Launch
10:22 UTC
Cosmic Origins Second Early Career Workshop, Oct 2026
Cosmic Origins Second Early Career Workshop. 20-22 October 2026
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Instruments
Instruments
17:45 UTC
ROSES-25 D.3 AGIGO: Swift, Fermi, and TESS Second Opportunities
ROSES-25 D.3 AGIGO: Swift, Fermi, and TESS Observatories Second Opportunities; Phase-1 Proposals Due 28 January 2027
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Exoplanets
Exoplanets
16:24 UTC
Current ROSES Remains Open, Next ROSES in Late 2026
Current ROSES Remains Open, Next ROSES to be Released in Late 2026.
NASA Science
Orbit
Orbit
21:58 UTC
NASA’s Swift Mission Ends Ahead of Re-Entry
NASA’s Swift has concluded operations, leaving behind a legacy of innovation and a treasure trove of science observations.
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Black Holes
Black Holes
18:51 UTC
Realizing Rapid Reduced-cost high Risk Research (R5)
Rapid, Low-Cost, High-Capability CubeSats for Technology Demonstrations NASA’s Realizing Rapid, Reduced-cost high-Risk Research project, or R5, is a…
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Orbit
Orbit
19:43 UTC
REGISTRATION STILL OPEN: 2026 Cosmic Origins Early Career Workshop
DON'T MISS OUT! REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN: 2026 Cosmic Origins Early Career Workshop
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Cosmology
Cosmology
17:46 UTC
There Should Be Black Holes in our Neighbourhood. Can We Find Them?
Stellar-mass black holes should be in our neighbourhood within about 50 light years of the Solar System.
Universe Today
Black Holes
Black Holes
04:05 UTC
APOD: 2026 October 21 – New Ghosts Revealed in Cassiopeia
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 October 21 – New…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day…
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Stars
Stars
14:53 UTC
Supernova Explosions First Aided, Then Later Impeded, the Epoch of Reionization
The Epoch of Reionization is when radiation from early galaxies and their stars reionized neutral hydrogen and let…
Universe Today
Cosmology
Cosmology
16:20 UTC
NASA’s Hubble Charts Path for Roman with Gravitational Lenses
This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by Hubble in preparation for science with the…
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Instruments
Instruments