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How you'd really die in space: What sci-fi gets right (and wrong) about extra-terrestrial expirations

08 May 2026, 18:00 UTC

What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.

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I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas

08 May 2026, 17:36 UTC

Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hang...

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NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing

08 May 2026, 17:05 UTC

For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apo...

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This is your best chance to spot the Milky Way's core in May

08 May 2026, 17:00 UTC

See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky

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Blue Origin tests 1st moon lander ahead of lunar launch later this year (photo)

08 May 2026, 16:00 UTC

Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NASA centers across the nation to prepare it for its upcoming mission to the moon.

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'Star Fox' is returning this summer with a shiny 'Star Fox 64' remake for Nintendo Switch 2 full of unique features

08 May 2026, 15:30 UTC

We must fight the Lylat Wars... again.

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Glowing Views from the Space Station

08 May 2026, 15:21 UTC

NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmosph...

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Paraguay signs the Artemis Accords

08 May 2026, 15:04 UTC

Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks.

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The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space photo of the day for May 8, 2026

08 May 2026, 15:00 UTC

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

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NASA Names Brian Hughes to Launch Operations Role

08 May 2026, 14:00 UTC

NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Hughes will provide ente...

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Learn the night sky without an app: May's easiest star-hops for beginners

08 May 2026, 14:00 UTC

Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn the sky the old-fashioned way, one star-hop at a time.

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NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon

08 May 2026, 14:00 UTC

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular ...

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