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NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia

Reported by NASA

Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years. The ev...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:47 +0000

Robotic Servicing Mission Launches with NASA Support

Reported by NASA

Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:04 +0000

The Milky Way Flipped its Disk Billions of Years Ago

Reported by Universe Today

The Milky Way has two disks, the thin disk where most of the stars dwell, and the thick disk, populated by much older stars. The ESA's Gaia mission showed us that the thick disk rotates more slowly than the thin disk. The culprit, according to powerful sim...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:33 +0000

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return

Reported by NASA

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are wrapping up their 241‑day mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew and its Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratoryâ€...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:17 +0000

A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory unveiled this new look at the galaxy NGC 4736, also known as Messier 94, on June 30, 2026. Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming, perhap...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:45 +0000

Have we found the first exomoon … around a brown dwarf?

Reported by Space | EarthSky

Have astronomers found the first exomoon? We think of moons as objects that orbit planets. So what do we call this object, which orbits a brown dwarf? The post Have we found the first exomoon … around a brown dwarf? first appeared on EarthSky....
  • By: Space | EarthSky
  • On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:56 +0000