Enigmatic Mercury Will Remain A Puzzle Until Someone Sends A Lander
Reported by Universe Today
Despite the upcoming Bepi Colombo visit to Mercury, we need a lander mission to fully understand our solar system’s innermost planet....
- By: Bruce Dorminey (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/bruce)
- On: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:47 +0000
APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P
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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 17… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe i...
- By: NASA
- On: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:05 +0000
NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, returns to lead the center where he b...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:14 +0000
In the Search for Exoplanets, Some Failures Are A Success
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers used decades of archival data and new radial velocity measurements to search for exoplanets around a neaby binary star, 70 Oph AB. They didn't find any, which can seem like a failure. But in this case, their work only ruled out large, Jupiter-m...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:30 +0000
Caves on the moon are target of new NASA mission
Reported by Space | EarthSky
NASA wants to search for caves on the moon. A new mission named GIMLI will land and examine a volcanic pit — the Marius Hills Pit — in the vast, dark lunar lava plain known as Oceanus Procellarum.
The post Caves on the moon are target of new NASA missi...
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00 +0000
Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
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Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively ...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:28 +0000