Here is a list of news that were published in our Newsletter during the week of September 6, 2026:

Human Space Exploration

• What comes after the Moon? Artemis II commander and pilot shift to ’emeritus status’ at NASA;
• Martian air could yield methane rocket fuel with fewer unwanted byproducts;
• NASA calls for proposals to accelerate lunar surface technologies;
• How studying astronauts could help tackle aging on Earth
  Coalition Member in the News – Axiom Space;
• RelaxPro: Helping astronauts sleep and manage stress in space;

Space Science

• New revelations about the origin of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS;
• World’s largest atlas of universe’s gas bodies compiled, could decode how galaxies form, evolve;
• Unexplained gamma-rays from the galactic center could be from self-annihilating dark matter;
• Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected;
• Did Venus eat its own moon?;
• If alien civilizations use hyper-efficient computers, they will have a distinct energy signal we can detect;
• Earth may not be a cosmic fluke, new simulations suggest;
• The rise of ‘quantum gravity?’ Einstein’s theory seen in the quantum realm for 1st time;
• Astronomers have completed the largest map of space. Yes, you can play with it;
• A new mission could rendezvous with Halley’s Comet In 2061;
• Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system.
  JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage although Nereid may be one original survivor;
• Two CMEs might hit Earth today;
• China Focus: China to build international constellation for exploring Earth-Moon space;
• NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert;
• This NASA-funded ‘Slingshot’ spacecraft idea could map minerals on planets and moons across our solar system;

Other News

• NASA invites governors to compete to be home to the new U.S. Space Academy;
• Rocket propulsion company Venus Aerospace opens new test site at Houston Spaceport
  Coalition Member in the News – Lockheed Martin;
• ‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists;
• Space Force expects to spend $17B more on launch as demand soars;
• Macron summit to seek boost for European space despite no-shows;
• ISRO being privatized?: Space agency says no, but private firms may build its rockets and satellites;
• Isar Aerospace completes first successful spectrum flight;
• Rescue satellite gets close to NASA’s doomed telescope, even if it can’t save it;

Major Space-Related Activities for the Week

• On Wednesday, The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is hosting a live streamed presentation “Space Launch Capacity and Contenders,” from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EDT.
• On Wednesday evening and in person only, the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center’s Discovery Series “Building the Moon Base” has planned a 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. EDT presentation, in Washington, D.C. at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center on Pennsylvania Avenue.
• Russia’s Progress 96 resupply mission to the seven-person ISS is schedule for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. EDT, with an automated docking at the orbital lab’s Poisk module on Friday at 2:37 p.m. EDT.
• The U.S. House and Senate are in recess this week except for pro forma sessions..

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