Covers 10 September to 7 October 2026
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A visualization of a dark Moon eclipsing the Sun carries handwritten notes from an Artemis II crew member's tablet, made on 6 April 2026. The astronauts marked faint flashes of light where rocky fragments struck the Moon.
From the story: Artemis II Crew Moon Photo Annotations
Research
An engineering model showed it can survive the extreme temperatures of Venus.
A long exposure from the station, 258 miles up, with fishing boats and city lights below.
City lights toward New York City, photographed from the station 259 miles above Earth.
A serene-looking spiral galaxy in the ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month.
X-ray observations reveal a new class of objects behaving unlike any seen before.
Engineers raise the detector assembly of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager in July.
Galaxies of different sizes and shapes, from Chandra and other telescopes.