Star Catcher Industries, has its prototype power node, Protostar, prepared for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Launching aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission scheduled for October 2026, the Protostar mission aims to conduct a landmark power beaming demonstration between two untethered spacecraft, a feat that has never been achieved.

NASA and AeroVironment are moving ahead with the development of a set of helicopters to be sent to Mars on a nuclear propulsion demonstration mission at the end of 2028. An illustration of three SkyFall helicopters flying above Mars, using radars to probe for subsurface ice.

York Space Systems and ATLAS Double Equatorial Ground-Station Capacity With Rwanda Antenna. This antenna doubles the number of satellite contacts the site can support at one time and further expands equatorial coverage across the ATLAS federated global antenna network.

Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge. Scientists have developed and experimentally demonstrated a long-sought method for identifying W states, an important form of multi-photon quantum entanglement. The technique could make complex entangled systems much easier to measure, opening new possibilities for quantum teleportation, communication, and computing.

The Defense Department announced this month a $450 million investment in The Elmet Group to strengthen the U.S. supply chain for tungsten.

Roman's first test image shows hundreds of stars as green rings of light. After a few more months of tuning, it will capture images as crisp as Hubble's but 100 times bigger.

Vast, a company developing space infrastructure, announced that it has established a Lunar Programs division. Leveraging its commercial space station and satellite development heritage, Vast Lunar Programs was dedicated to helping advance NASA’s vision for a permanently crewed Moon Base. Vast’s Haven-1 is intended to be a commercial space station, with launch anticipated in 2027, and is currently in final integration in the clean room at Vast headquarters in Long Beach, California.

Three missile-tracking satellite programs have cleared key design reviews as the Space Force builds out new sensor constellations in low and medium Earth orbit. L3Harris, Rocket Lab and BAE Systems clear design milestones as the military builds out a multilayered sensor network.

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments, volcanic activity, and how hidden breaks beneath Cascadia may influence future earthquakes.

Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 processor, they combined braiding and fusion to unlock capabilities that braiding alone could not provide.

Researchers led by Prof. An Xu at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that a magnetotactic bacterium (MTB) called Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 (AMB-1) can extend healthy lifespan in the Caenorhabditis elegans model. The team also identified the main mechanism behind the effect -- suppression of a form of cell death known as ferroptosis.

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1): Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on Sept. 23-24 when a fast-moving stream of solar wind is expected to reach Earth. This stream is coming from a canyon-shaped hole in the sun's atmosphere. The Russell-McPherron effect could turn it into a nice display of equinox auroras.

Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean for nearly two decades. The slowdown could eventually reshape weather patterns, rainfall, storms, winters, and coastal sea levels around the Atlantic. The study, led by researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, provides some of the clearest direct observational evidence so far that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is losing strength.

Iridium Communications, a provider of global voice, data, aircraft surveillance and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, and Deutsche Telekom IoT (DT IoT) have announced the successful transmission of a voice message over Iridium NTN Direct in a demonstration with Toyota.