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Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations into question, raising concerns for the mammals’ future Olivia Ferrari | Correspondent June 26, 2026 A North Atlantic right whale swims with dolphins around its…
SpaceX tests upcoming Starfall reentry vehicle with demonstration mission on Tuesday – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we give you the…
Because I’ve been talking about enormous structures lately and describing them as ‘big dumb objects,’ I thought it would be fun to revisit the origin of that term. BDOs emerged in what was intended as an April Fool’s joke by writer and critic Peter Nicholls, famed as editor (with John Clute) of The Encyclopedia of…
For this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month we return to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb. This area of the sky is replete with star-forming clouds that make up a complex hundreds of light-years across. We find ourselves in the giant molecular cloud Orion A, of which the familiar Orion Nebula…
On social media today, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended yesterday’s selection of four men for the Artemis III crew even though almost half of the astronaut corps is female. Stressing the process does not involve any political appointees, he asked that those who were chosen — three from NASA and one from the European Space…
Launch Preview: Pegasus XL to launch amongst Falcon 9 and Chinese missions – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we give you…
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 14-20, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session for part of the week. The House is in recess except for pro forma sessions. During the Week This Friday is a federal holiday — Juneteenth —…
TAMPA, Fla. — EchoStar subsidiaries tied to its satellite TV and abandoned 5G network businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, advancing a prepackaged restructuring plan to repay debt early after selling spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T. DISH DBS said June 30 that it and certain subsidiaries, including DISH Wireless, had filed the cases…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch a crewed capsule into orbit and then on a mission around the Moon. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA is once again shooting for the Moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 1, 2026, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, using the Space Launch…
In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system Jay Bennett | Former Associate Web Editor, Science June 29, 2026 Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, imaged here with its broad coma of gas and dust, has captivated astronomers…