Germany’s Isar rocket launches from Norway, as Europe seeks to boost space industry
Germany’s Isar Aerospace has launched a rocket into orbit from Norway as Europe races to boost its ability…
BlackSky develops automated orbital imaging for Gen-3 satellites, targeting emerging space surveillance and awareness missions
BlackSky Technology is advancing automated non-Earth imaging for its Gen-3 satellites, extending the company’s intelligence business into orbital…
Astronomers already knew the Milky Way’s magnetic field reverses near the Sagittarius Arm, but a new 2026 three-dimensional model revealed the boundary’s unexpected shape: not a vertical wall between spiral arms, but a tilted magnetic plane slicing diagonally through the Galactic disc and passing just above our own region of space.
The Milky Way has a magnetic field, but no camera can step outside the Galaxy and photograph its…
No telescope needed: September’s night sky is about to put on a show
September brings brilliant Venus, the Harvest Moon, an equinox, and several easy-to-spot celestial sights in the night sky.…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
On this day in space! Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 on epic journey across the solar system
On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch…
War on Earth could spill over to the moon, Chinese space scientists warn
In a rare study, Chinese aerospace researchers have explored how a war could one day spill into the…
Back to School 2026-2027: 5 school projects to engage your students in STEM
Agency 04/09/2026 272 views 4 likes This year, take your students’ learning beyond the classroom and into space!…
NASA’s 1.8-kilogram Ingenuity helicopter flew through Martian air roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s—its counter-rotating blades spun at about 2,400 revolutions per minute, nearly five times faster than a conventional passenger helicopter’s main rotor, to generate enough lift.
On Earth, a 1.8-kilogram helicopter would be a small machine. On Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity had to become something…
Scientists have confirmed that a pit in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquillity opens into an underground cave, probably an ancient lava tube. Only tens of metres have been mapped, but separate modelling suggests that lunar gravity could support tubes kilometres wide—natural shelters large enough, in theory, to house entire settlements.
A dark opening in Mare Tranquillitatis has been visible in spacecraft images for years. What lay beyond its…
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.
Gateway is often described as the Moon’s first spaceport, but almost nothing about it resembles an airport on…