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Help a lost lunar rover find its way in new ESA competition

A small rover is alone on the Moon, with no signal and no idea of its position. All it has is a panoramic camera and an aerial map of the Moon’s surface. The lunar night is fast approaching… can you help the rover find its way before it’s too late?

ESA Open Days 2026

ESA Open Days 2026 welcomed over 23 000 visitors across its six establishments, giving the public the opportunity to discover more about Europe’s space activities, meet the people behind the missions and explore how ESA is shaping the future of space.

ESA Council approves appointment of two new directors

The European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Andrzej Banasiak as Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership, and Nicolaus Hanowski as Director of Space Operations.

Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

From the ESA Blogs.

Moon crane to take a load off lunar landers

From the ESA Blogs.

APOD: 2026 October 22 – The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435

Fires Char New Guinea

Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

Faster to Science: A Letter to the Science Community

NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.

NASA Conducts RS-25 Engine Test in Support of Future Artemis Missions

NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during launch of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. During […]

China readies first commercial resupply craft, first booster reflight, and next landing attempt

As its launch cadence continues to grow, China is stepping further towards reusable rockets as…

NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

Interstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that their work marked the inception of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ninety years later, the lab, now managed by Caltech for NASA, isn’t […]

The coastwide Atlantic sturgeon abundance index has risen steadily since 2013, while the Hudson’s own Atlantic juvenile index has declined in recent years.

ASMFC's 2024 update finds the coastwide Atlantic sturgeon index rising since 2013, while New York's Hudson juvenile index has declined in recent years.