Mar 4, 2026 | Education, Engineering, Featured, Space
In an effort to retain engineering staff from a $170 million project for NASA, the University of Iowa is renovating the seventh floor of Van Allen Hall to house the Iowa Spaceflight Laboratory, a collection of labs supporting the UI’s efforts in building spaceflight...
Feb 26, 2026 | Healthcare, Space
According to The Independent, a study by a team of researchers found that astronauts’ brains shift upward and backward inside the skull during spaceflight. The longer individuals remained in microgravity, the more pronounced the changes appeared to be. Most of the...
Feb 19, 2026 | Featured, Satellites, Space
The largest-ever communications satellite of its kind took a major step toward operation Tuesday: operator AST SpaceMobile announced the record-breaking spacecraft, whimsically called BlueBird 6, has successfully unfolded its humongous antenna. Spanning some 2,400...
Feb 13, 2026 | Featured, Space
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were originally going to overlap in space with the outgoing crew, a mission known as Crew-11. But that group had to return to Earth...
Feb 12, 2026 | Satellites, Space
Space is getting crowded — nowadays, over 45,000 human-made objects orbit Earth. A portion of that figure is indeed represented by the thousands of satellites humans use for internet, GPS and other communications, but it also takes into account space junk from...
Feb 5, 2026 | Featured, Space
A dress rehearsal countdown for NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket, intended to clear the way for a possible February launch, ran into a variety of problems and ultimately was called off early Tuesday because of an out-of-limits hydrogen leak. Shortly after, NASA...
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