Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 21-27, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week. During the Week Three hearings/markups on Capitol Hill top the list this week: House Appropriations marks up the defense bill; Senate Appropriations marks…
Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the supernova event known as Lhonoja. By the end of it, several planets will have burned, a couple of civilisations will have fallen, and I will have spoken to an entity some consider a god, and…
THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON JUNE 23, 2026 This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems. Most opportunities to participate in research are officially announced through the Web-based NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated…
What really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena. ESA is getting ready for three European solar eclipses. Follow this page to keep up to date with our planned activities! Embed code
This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it’s interacting with, and a distinctive curving filament to its upper left (purple). The filament, which is shown here both in optical and ultraviolet (UV) light, is the visible part of an overlapping supernova remnant, G189.6+3.3, that’s more prominent in radio and…
To answer the question of whether the multiverse is real, we first need to agree on what it means for something to be real. As an astrophysicist who studies cosmology – the large-scale history and structure of the universe – and the philosophy of physics, I’ve thought about this question more than a few times…
In this illustration, two neutron stars are beginning to merge, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris. Among the debris are “r-process” elements, such as radioactive plutonium-244. The amount of this element in Earth’s oceanic crust suggests such an event occurred near Earth more than 100 million years ago.A. Simonnet…
NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the SBIC-NASA Initiative on Monday to increase investment in American manufacturers of industrial components and providers of technologies critical to space exploration to support a sustained presence on the Moon and Mars. Under the Memorandum of Agreement, NASA will identify technology priorities and connect businesses to funding opportunities…
Robert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Credit: Esther Goddard/National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. One hundred years ago, on March…
Progressive reformer Frances Kellor spearheaded efforts to celebrate Americanization Day, arguing that immigrants should fully embrace U.S. culture to better adapt to life in their new home Kellie B. Gormly | Contributing Writer June 30, 2026 7:45 a.m. A 1916 photo of Frances Kellor Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division For a brief period…