Space & Aerospace
Space & Aerospace news — Saturday 24 October 2026
4 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
Ars Technica Space
Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again. The wispy formation appears near the volcano Arsia Mons and gradually elongates until it reaches over 1,000 miles—about…
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Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
Ars Technica Space
Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its peak buried most of Canada under…
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APOD: 2026 October 24 – Rosetta’s Selfie
NASA News
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NASA Artemis Update: SLS Stacking, Sortie Suit, Dual 2028 Paths
NASASpaceFlight
NASA released its October Artemis Update on Friday, covering the near-term status of the Space Launch System (SLS), a lighter “sortie” version of the lunar spacesuit, and two parallel architectures for delivering astronauts to the lunar…