"Unlike Earth, the moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global magnetic field."
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-side-moon-clues-magnetic-field.html#google_vignette
"When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater in September 2023, mission scientists were surprised by what they found."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-discovery-reveals-complex-water-systems-on-early-mars/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Northrop Grumman has won a U.S. Space Force deal to develop a new reconnaissance satellite for geosynchronous orbit."
https://interestingengineering.com/space/us-ghost-r-spy-satellite-prototyp
"Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret."
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-hubble-sync-galaxy.html#google_vignette
"NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has orbited the Moon for 17 years, mapping its surface with unprecedented precision."
https://www.iflscience.com/the-moon-has-a-massive-new-crater-over-200-meters-wide-thats-larger-than-the-colosseum-84676?utm_source=newsletters.iflscience.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=twis-the-us-admits-it-placed-weapons-in-space&_bhlid=37d8b697a5d3246305212fd16a37f58527f95616
"Speaking at the Air, Space, and "Cyber Conference on Monday, September 14, US Secretary of the Air Force Dr Troy Meink confirmed that the United States had deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit."
https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-has-admitted-for-the-first-time-that-it-placed-weapons-in-space-what-does-this-mean-84669?utm_source=newsletters.iflscience.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=twis-the-us-admits-it-placed-weapons-in-space&_bhlid=60a5d25f89a5d65f630f8c7e9a48a8ccd2434217
"Since it began sending observations back to Earth in summer 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped scientists create a much clearer picture of the universe, but it has also delivered some frustrating mysteries."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/galaxies-housing-the-james-webb-space-telescopes-mysterious-little-red-dots-mightve-revealed-their-secrets
"As the newest heavy hitter in orbital observatories continues the journey to its final destination, NASA has begun the process of switching the spacecraft on."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/roman-space-telescope-starts-waking-up-as-nasa-powers-on-instruments-for-the-1st-time
"Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet on record, and they spotted the "newborn" world hiding in old data archives."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/scientists-find-youngest-exoplanet-on-record-a-newborn-named-elias
"An eye surgeon with a passion for space since childhood predicts that as astronauts start to make journeys to the moon and Mars in the near future, eye surgery in space will eventually become a necessity."
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-cataract-surgery-space-surgeon.html
"Whatever they are and from where, UFOs, now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAP, are the subject of serious scrutiny at the highest levels of the U.S. government."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/the-us-government-is-sincere-in-its-efforts-to-understand-uap-new-white-house-council-chair-says
"NASA’s Apollo missions proved that humans could make it to the Moon."
https://research.ibm.com/blog/nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun."
https://apnews.com/article/mercury-shrinking-planet-47b010ee65287f76565bc4859c7c09b3?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"The Moon has been an object of fascination for as long as humanity has been gazing up at the heavens."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/moon-base-race?utm_campaign=Thursday%203%20September%202026&utm_content=Read%20more&utm_term=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra
"One day in June 2023, the numerous, unblinking electronic eyes of the LUX-ZEPLIN detector may have glimpsed something remarkable — possibly the first direct detection of the shadowy dark matter that pervades the cosmos. Or it may have been just another Friday."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-particle-wimp-lz-experiment?utm_medium=email&utm_term=N%2FA&utm_source=D365&utm_content=SN%20Latest%20Headlines%202026%2009%2003&utm_campaign=SN%20Latest%20Headlines%2009%2003%2026#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=354e440a-8a78-41b1-952c-9e3ec4db0300
"Blue Origin will build NASA's next Mars orbiter."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/blue-origin-wins-usd700-million-contract-to-build-nasas-next-mars-orbiter
"Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn’s south pole."
https://apnews.com/article/saturn-nasa-hubble-decagon-1fd4a0a90badacb6e4e18ac019ac6ead?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage to the solar system's smallest and closest-to-the-sun planet."
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pair-spacecraft-closer-mercury-decade.html
"An entire batch of Russian low Earth orbit satellites, intended to help create Moscow's version of Starlink, has failed to reach or remain at their anticipated altitudes just over a month after launch."
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-16-new-russian-starlink-rival-satellites-short-target-orbit-2026-9
"Space exploration and spaceflight research often evoke images of astronauts and large spacecraft, but some of the most revealing experiments have flown on satellites no bigger than a loaf of bread."
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/in-2011-nasa-launched-a-12-pound-satellite-the-size-of-a-loaf-of-bread-with-2-bacillus-populations-radiation-exposure-reached-nearly-15-times-the-iss-orbit/articleshow/133675438.cms
"Roman will downlink the highest data volume of any NASA astrophysics mission so far via its high-gain antenna, which measures 5.6 feet wide yet only weighs 24 pounds. "
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/09/01/nasa-roman-space-telescopes-antenna-visor-deployed/
"Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/musks-faster-path-to-more-gas-turbines-comes-with-pollution-problem/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
