Background images: Photos of past recipients of the Drake Award, giving speeches and smiling for the camera. Text: The search for life beyond earth takes center stage (literally!). Tickets now available: May 14, 2026, Mountain View, CA. 2026 Drake Awards logo.

Each year, scientists, industry experts, and SETI Institute supporters gather to honor the work pushing the boundaries of what we know... and what we might soon discover.

Join us on May 14 in Mountain View for an unforgettable evening of inspiration, connection, and cosmic wonder. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #bayarea

Astronstone Raises 200 Million Yuan Ahead of Early 2027 Debut Launch The AS-1 launch vehicle from the almost two-year-old company may be completed this year thanks to new capital.

Astronstone has recently raised 200 million Yuan in new capital to complete their first reusable AS-1 launch vehicle and ship it to a launch site early next year

Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/astronston...

On Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: "The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World." 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #bayarea

Proxima Report

So after spending tens of billions of dollars setting up Gateway with international partners, NASA's now going to throw more tens of billions at a surface base instead

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🔭 Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Eric Benson

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When To See A Crescent Moon And Venus On The Equinox And All Weekend When to see the beautiful sight of a crescent moon and Venus this weekend as the “Evening Star” returns to shine all summer. Jupiter will also be on show.

When To See A Crescent Moon And Venus On The Equinox And All Weekend

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#NASA #space #artemis #moon

Chinese News Outlets Say Giant Constellation Filing Is Lawful, Not Final Deployment Plan And is a 193,000 satellite constellation in Earth orbit realistic at that scale?

Following the filing for 200,000 new satellites, with most coming from one operator, Chinese news outlets have said that the applications were lawful, while adding that deployment plans were not final

Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/chinese-ne...

Visitors from the Stars: Understanding Comet ATLAS Without the Hype Commentary: Nathalie A. Cabrol

Every once in a while, our solar system receives a fleeting visitor from the depths of our galaxy. On July 1, 2025, NASA’s ATLAS telescope discovered Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, following ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Learn more:

Typhoon Matmo recently passed by Wenchang's two launch sites while efforts to build new launch pads are underway

Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/wenchang-w...

STS-112 STS-112 was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey, Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.

STS-112 was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to...

If you had to live on one of these worlds, which would you choose? (note: you'd live in the exact same type of habitat, none of these worlds would be terraformed, just the location itself) [🔴Mars, 🌑Ceres, 🌝Moon, 🌕Titian)

Lunar Road Trip 🚗

Apollo 16 panoramic with the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and one of two astronauts on the surface of the Moon!

What goes up, must come down 🚀

Falcon 9 roars back to the Cape after successfully launching the Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS

📸 - @derekdotspace.bsky.social

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 soars across the sky as it makes its way to the ISS carrying Cygnus XL

Liftoff of CRS NG-23 🚀

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station!

📸 - @derekdotspace.bsky.social

NASAs Saturn V rolls out of the VAB on top of the mobile crawler as it makes its march to pad 39A in Florida.

March of a Titan 🚀

The Saturn V to be used for Apollo 12 exits the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) towards Pad 39A.

More is needed to be known before life is conclusively found, but this is a huge step in the right direction.

We know Mars had an atmosphere, water, and now, the signs point that it once supported life.

More here ⬇️
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These Leopard spots were found by the Perseverance Rover over a year ago.

Since then, the scientific community has prodded the data, researching every potential cause of these spots.

However, all the tests pointed back to one thing—life.

🚨 BREAKING

During a press conference today, NASA believes they have found the strongest evidence of life found on Mars, EVER.

Leopard spots on rocks indicate “leftovers” from an ancient life form, which isn’t definitive proof, but the closest evidence of non-earth life.

This comes after Rajeev Badayl (Head of Project Kuiper) shared Kuiper’s >1 Gbps (down) speed.

Really looking good for Kuiper 👀

🔗 linkedin.com/posts/rajeev-b…

Amazon press release ⬇️
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🚨 BREAKING

JetBlue has selected Amazon’s Project Kuiper, to provide free, in-flight wifi, starting in 2027. This will enhance the companies existing “Free-fi” service.

Amazon also has reached an agreement with Airbus to integrate Project Kuiper into their aircraft catalog.

🚨 BREAKING

United States Space Force to be headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, leaving the state of Colorado.

Starship 37 moments before it safely splashed down in the ocean 🚀

Saturn? ❌
Jupiter? ✅

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped this photo of Jupiter and his ring system while in the gas giants shadow.

This photo was taken ~1.5 million kilometers away, one day after Voyagers flyby on July 10th, 1979.

Space Shuttle Endeavor in orbit around Earth during orbital dusk.

Space Shuttle Endeavor’s tail splits orbital dusk.

Blue Origin's Mars Telecommunications Orbiter YouTube video by Blue Origin

Here is a video from Blue Origin going over MTOs capabilities and overall mission objectives.

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🚨 BREAKING

Blue Origin announces Mars Telecommunication Orbiter (MTO) which will, in collaboration with other relay satellites, provide very reliable data transfer between the red planet and Earth.

Amazon's Kuiper constellation has surpassed 100 satellites in orbit with a launch earlier today, atop Falcon 9

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Saturn and the moon Titan as seen by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft back in 2013.

Saturn, the second largest and arguably most iconic planet in our solar system, and Titan, the giants largest Moon. This image was captured by Cassini in August of 2013, from the planets night side.