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• NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
• From more than 8,000 applications, 10 astronaut candidates were selected in 2025 and are currently completing nearly two years of training.
• U.S. citizens interested in joining the astronaut corps have until 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 3, to submit their completed application materials.

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• A telescopic image of the massif at the lunar limb was captured on October 31.

NASA · Official source · Updated 16h ago

• M30 lies about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus.

NASA · Official source · Updated 1d ago

• An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed the goosenecks on October 6, 2026.
• Goosenecks State Park was designated as an International Dark Sky Park in 2021.

NASA · Official source · Updated 1d ago

• The new vulnerability is CVE-2026-119977, a WordPress Core Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerability.
• BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog and requires federal agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency + 2 others · Updated 1d ago

• The Earth-to-space call will begin at 10:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
• The event is hosted by Freedom Crossing Academy in St. Johns, Florida, for students in grades K-12.

NASA · Official source · Updated 2d ago

• Effective PQC transition depends on vendor readiness, and early, structured engagement with these vendors is critical to planning efforts.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Official source · Updated 1d ago

• The Milky Way galaxy has at least 150 globular clusters, the nearest of which is about 6,000 light-years away.
• Astronomers estimate the ages of globular clusters are between 11.5 to 13.5 billion years.
• A more recent program (#13297; PI: Piotto) returned to M30 and other globular clusters in our galaxy, observing the clusters with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.

NASA · Official source · Updated 2d ago

• City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026.
• The International Space Station was orbiting 259 miles above Earth when this photograph was taken.

NASA · Official source · Updated 2d ago

• NASA unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, during the UP.Summit at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• The X-70 Fractal has a takeoff weight of 10,000 pounds.

NASA · Official source · Updated 2d ago

• Four astronauts will fly aboard Orion for a planned 14-day mission in Earth orbit.
• NASA redesigned, built, and tested a critical fuel-line component in-house in five months.

NASA · Official source · Updated 3d ago

• The initial period of performance runs from Nov. 4 through May 3, 2027.
• NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts.

NASA · Official source · Updated 3d ago

• An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control payload completed simulated lunar descent and landing maneuvers on Aug. 27.
• Davis Adams, project manager, confirmed that the SPLICE experiment is communicating with an Alta-X drone near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

NASA · Official source · Updated 3d ago

• Students will have the opportunity to connect directly with the International Space Station during a live, interactive in-flight call with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Mark Rober.
• The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

NASA · Official source · Updated 4d ago

• Construction of the nine-story Project Management Building began on Dec. 5, 1962, and concluded on March 15, 1964.
• The Mission Control Center in Building 30 was constructed from June 1963 to November 1964.

NASA · Official source · Updated 4d ago

• President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the United States Space Academy on Aug. 28, 2026.
• NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman chaired the first Presidential Commission on the United States Space Academy meeting on Sept. 9.
• Responses to the Request for Information are due by 6 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 26.

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NASA · Official source · Updated 58d ago

• The CVSS base score for the vulnerability is 9.8.
• The release date of the advisory is September 03, 2026.
• The alert code for the advisory is ICSA-26-246-07.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Official source · Updated 59d ago

• The CVSS base score for the vulnerability is 9.6.
• The IXON VPN Client is affected if it is a version below 1.4.7.
• CVE-2026-75925 is an improper neutralization of CRLF sequences vulnerability in IXON VPN Client before version 1.4.7.

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Official source · Updated 59d ago

• The vulnerabilities added to the KEV Catalog include CVE-2026-75650, CVE-2026-81963, CVE-2026-85880, and CVE-2026-86218.
• CVE-2026-75650 is an Adobe Commerce and Magento Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine Vulnerability.
• CVE-2026-81963 is a Microsoft Windows Link Following Vulnerability.

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency + 1 other · Updated 59d ago

• The smallest TNO observed has a diameter of about 3 miles (5 kilometers).
• The researchers analyzed the color, composition, and size distribution of 27 newly discovered tiny, dim TNOs.
• Most TNOs are more than 100 million times dimmer than objects visible to the unaided eye.

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NASA · Official source · Updated 59d ago