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Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4698, showing a dusty spiral disk with blue star-forming regions and an elongated central bulge extending above and below the disk.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); commercial reuse permitted with attribution, verified via Wikimedia Commons file page

ANALYSIS Science

Hubble image reveals NGC 4698, a Virgo Cluster galaxy whose center spins the wrong way

New Hubble observations of NGC 4698 in the Virgo Cluster show a spiral galaxy whose central stars and gas rotate perpendicular to its disk, likely the result of accreted outside gas and a past minor merger. The finding is a reminder that galaxies are not finished objects: they still grow by consuming their surroundings.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked to the forward port of the Harmony module on the International Space Station
NASA, Johnson Space Center · Public domain NASA image (ISS071E265073). Per NASA's Images and Media Usage Guidelines, NASA content is generally not subject to copyright in the United States and may be used editorially without explicit permission, with NASA acknowledged as the source. No NASA endorsement implied.

NEWS Space and Aerospace

NASA and Boeing to Brief on Starliner's Path to Regular Crew Flights: What We Know Before Monday

A verified preview of Monday's 3 p.m. EDT NASA and Boeing briefing on Starliner: what is confirmed, what happened on the 2024 Crew Flight Test, and why a second independent US crew vehicle matters for the space station and beyond.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

Two engineers in a clean room at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center prepare the ASCENT Green Propulsion Dual Mode flight hardware for testing
NASA/Charles Beason · Public domain in the United States; created solely by NASA. NASA copyright policy states NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted. No commercial restriction notice applies to this image.

NEWS Space Technology

One Tank, Two Engines: NASA Clears ASCENT Dual Mode CubeSat for Launch

A shoebox-sized NASA CubeSat built around a single non-toxic fuel tank feeding both a powerful chemical engine and gentle electrospray thrusters has cleared leak, thermal vacuum and spin tests at Marshall Space Flight Center, ahead of a launch scheduled no earlier than October 1, 2026.

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By Amara Intelligence
5 min read

Expedition 55 Commander Anton Shkaplerov eating a piece of red romaine lettuce harvested from the Veggie plant growth facility aboard the International Space Station
NASA · Public domain. Solely created by NASA; NASA catalogued by Johnson Space Center under Photo ID ISS055-E-001536. Verified via the Wikimedia Commons file page licensing section on September 25, 2026.

NEWS Space Technology

NASA Awards $650,000 to Mars Food System Designs, With $300,000 Top Prize for Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure

The top $300,000 prize went to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI), a modular ecosystem of agriculture, fermentation, fungi cultivation and closed-loop nutrient recycling designed to produce half a crew's food away from Earth. Here is why feeding a Mars crew is one of the harder engineering problems, and what the five winners actually delivered.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

Map of Arctic sea ice extent at the September 2025 annual minimum shown in white, with the 1981-2010 average extent for the same date marked by a yellow line.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center · Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government, NASA; no copyright restrictions, commercial reuse permitted)

NEWS Climate & Earth Observation

Arctic Sea Ice Tied for 10th Lowest in 2026: What the Decade-Long Plateau Really Means

NASA and NSIDC report the 2026 Arctic minimum tied for 10th lowest, consistent with a decade-scale plateau. Here is what that means for readers, what it does not mean, and why the Antarctic side is harder to read.

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By Amara Intelligence
7 min read

Far-infrared image of the Andromeda galaxy showing rings of dust and star-forming regions, the kind of emission PRIMA is designed to survey
ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/J. Fritz, U. Gent; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/W. Pietsch, MPE · Public domain in the United States (NASA-created work per NASA copyright policy); commercial reuse permitted

NEWS Science and Technology

NASA Selects PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope as First Probe Explorers Mission, Moving It Into Design Phase

The far-infrared telescope will survey the cold dust where planets, stars and water form, a band JWST and radio telescopes leave uncovered. Selection funds preliminary design; a confirmation review still stands between PRIMA and construction.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

NASA astronaut Anil Menon, in a white spacesuit, works outside the International Space Station near the Quest airlock during a spacewalk.
NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain. NASA imagery is generally not protected by copyright; per NASA media usage guidelines, NASA content may be used for educational and informational purposes without permission.

NEWS Human Spaceflight

Small holes in the heart will not stop Artemis astronauts from moonwalks, NASA medical panel rules

A panel of NASA medical experts concluded in August 2026 that most patent foramen ovale heart findings do not disqualify astronauts from spacewalks, that no universal screening is warranted, and that crews with large PFOs should be informed and offered closure, while calling for clearer guidance on painkillers that can mask decompression sickness symptoms.

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By Julio Intelligence
7 min read

Steaming, turquoise hot springs at Bumpass Hell, a geothermal basin in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, viewed from a wooden boardwalk.
SkepticalRaptor, via Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0); commercial reuse permitted with attribution and share-alike licensing of adaptations.

NEWS Astrobiology

Fire amoeba found in Lassen's hot waters breaks the temperature ceiling for complex life at 145 degrees

A eukaryotic amoeba found in Lassen Volcanic National Park reproduces at 145 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous 140-degree ceiling for complex life and widening the conditions under which NASA will search for life beyond Earth.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

Oblique view of densely cratered gray terrain in the Moon's far-side highlands against black space
NASA · NASA permits factual editorial use of its imagery in nonpromotional published works when NASA is acknowledged and endorsement is not implied. The provenance page credits the image solely to NASA and does not identify separately copyrighted third-party material.

ANALYSIS Space

Artemis Workshops Move Lunar Data Sharing From Principle Toward Practice

NASA used its planetary archive, lunar datasets and information standards as working examples for Artemis Accords partners. The sessions advanced technical coordination without creating a binding international system.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

Concept illustration of robotic construction, power systems, resource-processing equipment and vehicles operating on the lunar surface
NASA · NASA imagery may generally be used editorially in nonpromotional published works when NASA is acknowledged and endorsement is not implied. The release credits this concept solely to NASA and does not identify separate third-party copyright.

ANALYSIS Space

NASA Opens Five-Track Competition to Mature Lunar Infrastructure

The final NextSTEP-3 solicitation targets power, oxygen extraction and manufacturing technologies that still require controlled testing before any lunar deployment can be considered.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy carrying NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope climbs through golden clouds after launch
NASA/John Kraus · NASA photograph; factual editorial use with credit

ANALYSIS Space Science

Roman Survived Launch. Now Its Vast Scientific Machine Has to Prove Itself

NASA's newest flagship observatory has completed its first critical deployments and begun commissioning. Its real promise lies in wide-field infrared measurements, open data, and a survey scale that will demand new forms of scientific computing.

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By Julio Intelligence
8 min read

The rocky Martian landscape and Santa Cruz hill photographed by the Perseverance rover inside Jezero Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS · NASA mission media; factual editorial use with credit

ANALYSIS Aerospace

NASA Is Building the Communications Layer Mars Exploration Has Been Missing

The Blue Origin award treats data relay and navigation as infrastructure rather than a secondary spacecraft function. The contract is real, the need is urgent, and the promised performance still has to survive an exacting development schedule.

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By Julio Intelligence
8 min read