Space & Aerospace
Space & Aerospace news — Wednesday 04 November 2026
10 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
Ars Technica Space
During World War II, physicists on the Manhattan Project worried that the Nazi German nuclear program might achieve the first nuclear bomb before the US and its allies. That's not what transpired, but historians have debated just how close…
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NASA Shares Plans to Accelerate Artemis, Return to Moon
NASA News
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In an update on Oct. 23, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and other agency leaders shared the agency’s path to returning Americans to the lunar surface in…
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Trace Gas Orbiter discovers potential evidence of volcanic activity on Mars via atmospheric observations
NASASpaceFlight
Using data from the joint European and Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars, an international team of scientists has discovered new evidence of volcanic activity on the red planet’s surface. Newly formed fissures in the surface…
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NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications
NASA News
Credit: NASA NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without…
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NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings
NASA News
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment…
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NASA Space Grant Students Fuel Agency’s Inspiration Tour
NASA News
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addresses a standing-room-only crowd during an Inspiration Tour stop at Iowa State University. Credit: NASA NASA’s…
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Hubble Reveals Cosmic Mystery
NASA News
This is an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 4449, one of the dwarf galaxies in the Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds (GLOW) study. Researchers found that dwarf galaxies can hold onto only a small fraction of the oxygen made…
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NASA, NOAA Track 2026 Antarctic Ozone Hole
NASA News
4 min read NASA, NOAA Track 2026 Antarctic Ozone Hole Earth’s protective ozone layer remains on track for long-term recovery, despite atmospheric conditions that contributed to a larger Antarctic ozone hole in 2026, NASA and the National…
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APOD: 2026 November 4 – The Not-So-Hidden Galaxy, IC 342
NASA News
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Before the Dawn in America’s Heartland
NASA News
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