5 amazing lunar sights to explore on International Observe the Moon Night tonight!
International Observe the Moon Night is upon us! To celebrate, we’ve put together a list of 5 breathtaking…
On this day in space! Sept. 19, 1996: NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis docks at Russia’s Mir space station on STS-79
On Sept. 19, 1996, the space shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia’s Mir space station to deliver supplies and…
A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon
Mars’ innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades. One of the biggest unanswered questions is where…
NASA awards SpaceX $946 million for 3 more astronaut missions to the ISS
SpaceX will continue launching astronauts for NASA for at least another four years. The agency just awarded Elon…
On the dwarf planet Ceres, a lone mountain called Ahuna Mons rises four kilometres from an otherwise flat, cratered plain, built not from lava but from erupting salty brine that froze solid.
Ceres is a world of subdued relief. Its charcoal-grey surface is crowded with impact scars, but between the…
Russian cargo spacecraft arriving at ISS today: Watch it live
Progress 96 Cargo Ship Docking – YouTube Watch On Russia’s robotic Progress 96 cargo spacecraft will meet up…
In January 2026, European astronomers reported running a pattern-spotting program across nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble archive, finishing the job in two and a half days. More than 800 of the objects it flagged had never been documented in scientific literature.
As reported by ESA Hubble, more than 800 objects that had never appeared in the scientific literature, pulled…
BepiColombo Makes Up-Close Measurement of Mercury’s Solar Bombardment
During the eight years since it was launched, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made six close flybys of…
ESA and The Pokémon Company International reveal Europe-wide exhibition and astronaut Pikachu experience
Agency 19/09/2026 450 views 4 likes The European Space Agency (ESA) and The Pokémon Company International (TPCI) have…
During a close pass over comet 67P, Rosetta’s star trackers registered hundreds of sunlit dust grains as “false stars,” disorienting a spacecraft more than 400 million kilometres from Earth and forcing it into safe mode.
On 28 March 2015, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft passed about 14 kilometres above the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. That…
Watch Rocket Lab launch an Earth-observing radar satellite from New Zealand tonight
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit tonight (Sept. 18), and you can watch the…
Europe’s new spacesuit still needs work, French ISS astronaut says: ‘We are at the very beginning of its journey’
Europe’s prototype spacesuit aboard the International Space Station (ISS) still needs some work after European Space Agency astronaut…