SpaceWeekly News Summary December 7-13, 2025

This Week in Space – December 7-13, 2025 🛰️ Mission Critical MAVEN Tracking Data Show Unexpected…

NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft

Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during…

Chance of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025

Illustration of an asteroid passing nearby the moon MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The chances of a…

Jared Isaacman is confirmed as NASA chief, a year later : NPR

Jared Isaacman testifies during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in early December. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images…

NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings 

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer,…

Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

A composite image of the dust belt around Fomalhaut (obscured in the middle). In the inset,…

Fomalhaut cs1 and cs2 (clean image)

This composite NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and…

NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

NASA’s DiskSat technology demonstration mission will test the performance of a new small spacecraft platform designed…

342nd Council: Media information session

Watch the replay of the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA…

2025 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley 

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering,…

2025 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley 

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering,…