Space & Aerospace
Space & Aerospace news — Monday 05 October 2026
12 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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NASA to Stream SpaceX Crew-12 Return, Splashdown Live
NASA News
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members gather for a portrait in the pressure suits they will wear when they depart the International Space Station inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Andrey…
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Launch Preview: Flights from South Korea, China, USA planned for this week
NASASpaceFlight
On the heels of an impactful few days of launches from SpaceX, this week shapes up to be less busy, but with a more international set of flights. SpaceX does have two flights scheduled from California, but South Korea and China also plan…
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Resource competition intensifies with surge in megaconstellations
SpaceNews
Amazon wants more than 5,000 satellites in orbit. Blue Origin has proposed another 5,400. Chinese companies have filed plans encompassing vastly more. Elon Musk has talked about a constellation numbering […] The post Resource competition…
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Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
Ars Technica Space
Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that were active in different populations of…
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NASA Astronaut Christina Koch at Eagles vs. Rams
NASA News
NASA/Thalia Patrinos NASA astronaut and mission specialist of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Christina Koch, leads the fans in singing the Eagles Fight Song from the field at an NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los…
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NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety
NASA News
3 Min Read NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety Ice collection seen on un-heated sections of the 1D2D-X ice drop detection probe in the test section of the IRT (
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Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case
NASA News
Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope Suspected Second-generation… Hubble Home <li data-sanitized-class="usa-nav
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Contacting NASA’s Langley Research Center
NASA News
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) By Mail: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23681-2199 By Phone: Operator: (757) 864-1000 Public & Media…
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Agile Space Industries Strengthens Board and Corporate Development to Support Continued Growth
SpaceNews
DURANGO, Colo., Oct. 5, 2026 — Agile Space Industries today announced that Jonathan Baliff has joined its Board of Directors, bringing extensive experience in aerospace, finance, and corporate leadership. His […] The post Agile Space…
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APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams
NASA News
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104:… Today’s APOD
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Moon-Like Madagascar
NASA News
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New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Ars Technica Space
Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharaohs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice . But there is very little archaeological evidence…