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Happy Tuesday, space fans!
The summer is flying by (or at least it feels that way), and August is shaping up to be quite the momentous month. Today, we saw European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot become the first French woman ever to perform a spacewalk. Did you tune in to watch the action live? In other news, scientists think that they might have figured out why it's harder for people to poop while in space, which is apparently a thing that can happen. There are so many strange things that happen to the human body in space that we're really just starting to understand what happens and why. Speaking of humans in space, Artemis II pilot Victor Glover has thanked NASA for trusting him to fly the Orion capsule by hand during some critical maneuvers in space, an incredible and impressive feat that certainly sticks in the history books as part of the mission's legacy.
Check out what's big in space below:
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Spaceflight can do strange things to the human body — including making it harder for astronauts to poop.
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The new, ultra-sleek Horizon IX hearing aids deliver unparalleled speech clarity—even in background noise. 670,000 customers agree: this is the biggest hearing breakthrough in a decade. Claim your 45-day no-risk trial today.
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As Blue Origin continues to repair its New Glenn launch pad following the rocket's explosion in May, the company has announced plans to build a second pad at the same complex to support the bigger, more powerful New Glenn "9x4" variant.
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The Artemis II crew thanked NASA and its contractors in front of a crowd of over 8,000 on on Aug. 3, 2026 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
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Orbiting spacecraft captured incredible views of the moon's shadow darkening Earth during the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse.
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Discover how to photograph a lunar eclipse for perfect images every time with our in-depth guide on how to set up and shoot.
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A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MOTHRA reveal the Helix Nebula. We can see the bow shocks, particularly on the left.
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The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.
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The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
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On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar eclipse leads to discovery of helium
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That's it for our space update today!
We were so thrilled to see Sophie Adenot make history as the first French woman to perform a spacewalk, and the event seemed to go perfectly. Spacewalks are incredibly demanding, complicated and exhausting events and it's amazing to see the astronauts on the ISS continue to perform them so perfectly. No matter how many spacewalks take place, we can't take for granted how unbelievable it is that we have humans that aren't just flying onboard an orbiting space station, but are working outside of the safety of that station and are performing incredibly technical tasks floating out in the vacuum of space.
Coming up, we are now less than two weeks away from the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Space.com staff will be reporting live from this launch, and we can't wait to take you along with us. A massive flagship telescope launching on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket? We can't WAIT!
To follow closely along and stay up to date with all things space, you can now get Space.com right in the palm of your hand with our new app available now on iOS and Android.
Ad astra, per aspera
Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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