SpaceWeekly News Summary May 3 – May 9, 2026

🚀 Starship Test Campaign Continues in Texas SpaceX continued preparations for the next Starship integrated flight…

NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural…

NASA Awards Facilities Support Services Contract for Ames Research Center 

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair…

NASA’s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101,…

NASA Invites Media to Roman Space Telescope, Crew-13 Launches

Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and…

ESA’s Mars Express meets NASA’s Psyche

On 15 May, whilst en route to a metallic asteroid, NASA’s Psyche mission flew just 4500…

More than one way to make an impact

You can help prevent impacts, too. It’s thanks to support from people like you that The…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch:…

When will the mission launch? Roman is scheduled to launch on Aug. 30, 2026, from NASA’s…

Week in images: 13-17 July 2026

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10,000 black holes are missing, but we’ve finally found 1

View larger. | This star in the Omega Centauri globular cluster is the first astronomers have…

Infectious microbes on Mars could become even more deadly

View larger. | An astronaut examines rocks on Mars in this artist’s concept. A new thesis…