NEWSNATIONNOW (Caroline Jaime) - Trump to award Artemis II crew Congressional Space Medal of Honor
The first Congressional Space Medal of Honor was given to Neil A. Armstrong in 1978.
NYTIMES (Katrina Miller) - NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Promises a Breakthrough in Cosmic Exploration
NASA’s latest offering to the stars comes from a legacy of great observatories that enabled decades of discovery and unearthed new mysteries about the universe.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Katie Pavlich) - NASA chief Jared Isaacman says agency blocked Chinese hackers amid moon race
China recently postponed a robotic lunar mission that had been set to launch.
NPR (Ari Daniel) - This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy
Researchers have identified a speed demon at the heart of the Milky Way. This fast-moving star may yield insights into the black hole parked at the center of our galaxy.
NYTIMES (Kenneth Chang) - How NASA Engineers Are Keeping the Voyagers Alive
A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
NYTIMES (Matthew Cullen) - A Celestial Wonder
We’re sharing photos from yesterday’s total solar eclipse.
AI:A collection of photographs capturing the visual phenomenon of the recent total solar eclipse as it passed over various regions.Open
NEWSNATIONNOW (ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, Associated Press) - How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle
NEW YORK (AP) — The Perseid summer light show is back — and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere. The meteor shower's peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland and a six-planet parade — though the best time to view the fireballs [...]
NEWSNATIONNOW (Michael Ramsey) - Converging this week: Solar eclipse, meteor shower
Not everyone on Earth will be able to see both celestial displays in their optimum forms.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Giant UFOs Near Moon? What Scientists Claim They Saw | Hot Take with Jesse Weber
On "Hot Take," Jesse Weber digs into a startling new claim out of Ukraine's Main Astronomical Observatory, where researchers say they used a high-speed telescope camera to capture unidentified objects moving near the moon — changing brightness, rotating and even appearing to "flash in unison" in what they call a possible pattern of communication. Former NASA administrator and current Disclosure Foundation board member Mike Gold joins to give his hot take on the findings and the recent UFO file drops.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Bennett Haeberle) - NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk for International Space Station repairs
Two astronauts embarked on a lengthy spacewalk, one of the riskiest parts of space exploration.