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Science & Discovery
Black Holes Older Than the Big Bang Could Explain Dark Matter, New Study Suggests
A University of Portsmouth cosmologist argues that black holes from a universe that existed before our own could have survived a cosmic "bounce" and still be hiding in plain sight as dark matter.
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Military Space
All 12 Golden Dome Interceptor Contractors Clear First Design Milestone — But a Funding Cliff Looms
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and ten other contenders have passed Gate 1 of the Pentagon's space-based interceptor competition, but officials warn the $185 billion Golden Dome missile shield could stall as soon as October without new funding.
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NASA & Agencies
Veteran Astronaut Mike Fincke Retires From NASA After 30 Years and a January Health Scare in Orbit
NASA confirmed Aug. 12 that four-flight veteran Mike Fincke is retiring after 30 years with the agency, seven months after losing his voice for 20 minutes aboard the ISS forced an early end to his Crew-11 mission.
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Commercial
Virgin Galactic Pushes First Commercial Delta Spaceflight to February 2027
Virgin Galactic told investors its new Delta-class spaceship won't fly paying customers until February 2027, blaming a pile-up of tiny tolerance and installation snags rather than one big failure.
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Commercial
Firefly Pushes Redesigned Alpha Rocket to Q4 After a Booster Exploded in Testing
Firefly Aerospace's Q2 10-Q and August 11 investor call confirm the Alpha Block 2 debut has slipped to Q4 2026, after an in-flight booster rupture and a September 2025 test-stand explosion forced a heavier redesign.
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Missions
NASA Finishes Its Suitcase-Sized Moonquake Detector for Artemis III's Landing Site
NASA says the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, an 11-pound seismic station astronauts will hand-carry to the Moon's South Pole, has cleared hardware testing — reviving lunar seismology for the first time since Apollo shut its instruments off in 1977.
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Astronomy
Three Space Telescopes Turn the Tarantula Nebula Into a Layered 'Craft' — and Solve an X-ray Mystery
NASA's new Chandra-Webb-Hubble composite of the Tarantula Nebula looks like stacked cellophane, and the science behind it explains why the region glows with far less X-ray light than star-formation models predicted.
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Science & Discovery
This 374-Second Binary Is Losing Energy Faster Than Any White Dwarf Pair We Know
A newly timed ultracompact white dwarf binary toward the Large Magellanic Cloud is spiraling inward faster than any comparable system on record, making it a leading calibration target for the future LISA gravitational-wave observatory.
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Military Space
Vulcan Launches First National Security Mission, Carrying Navigation Satellite Meant to Backstop GPS
ULA's Vulcan rocket flew its debut national-security mission on August 12, 2026, delivering the Air Force's experimental NTS-3 satellite toward geosynchronous orbit to test jam-resistant GPS backup technology.
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NASA & Agencies
Station Crew Preps for Three-Agency Spacewalk to Swap Out a Balky Antenna
NASA says Expedition 75's Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot will step outside the ISS on August 18 for a 6.5-hour spacewalk to replace a space-to-ground antenna on the Z1 truss.
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Science & Discovery
Astronomers Spot Tiny Plasma Whirlpools on the Sun — Right at the Edge of What We Can See
A Nature study using the Inouye Solar Telescope has resolved 20-km plasma vortices on the Sun's surface for the first time, structures researchers compare to spotting a coin from 180 km away.
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Stargazing
Total Solar Eclipse and Peak Perseids Collide Over Europe on August 12
A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain on August 12, 2026, then the New Moon lets that same night's Perseid peak deliver up to 100 meteors an hour with zero lunar glare.
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