NASA satellite will test orbital ‘gas station’ tech to help astronauts reach the moon and Mars
A new NASA satellite will test critical technologies for storing and transferring super-chilled, cryogenic fuels in space in…
The Carrington Event of 1859 was a solar storm so intense that telegraph operators kept sending messages after disconnecting their batteries because the storm itself was powering the lines — and a Lloyd’s of London risk model estimates a comparable event today could cost the U.S. up to 2.6 trillion dollars
In late August and early September 1859, Earth was struck by a sequence of geomagnetic disturbances, the largest…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 will now launch on May 21
Refresh 2026-05-19T06:03:00.677Z SpaceX Starship Flight 12 will now launch on May 21 The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s…
NASA Maps Confirm The World Is Both Brighter And Darker
May 19, 2026 Global light levels climbed even as key regions reduced nighttime light output In recent…
Scientists Identified Asteroids That Could Help Humans Build Permanent Cities on Mars
A team of researchers from EPFL in Switzerland has explored whether asteroids could supply the metals and fuel…
NASA updated Artemis III and SpaceX’s role just got more complicated
Elon Musk cannot be fired from SpaceX, and there’s a reason for that. In a blunt post on…
Moon is getting farther away from Earth each year, report finds
(NewsNation) — With the Artemis II mission in the rear mirror, new information has emerged about how far…
Asteroid 2022 OB5 Spins Too Fast For Current Prospectors Highlighting the Divide Between “Accessible” and “Exploitable”
Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out…
Europe plans reusable orbital spaceplane for post-ISS missions
Dassault Aviation and OHB announced on 11th May that they are partnering to propose to the European Space…
Vega C rocket launches European-Chinese space weather satellite to orbit
A European-Chinese space weather mission launched to orbit on Monday night (May 18). The SMILE spacecraft lifted off…
The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned “day into night” across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more than 1,000 recovery commands afterward, the rover never woke up
In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags,…
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021,…