Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.
The MeerKAT radio telescope, composed of 64 dish antennas located in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, was built…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe | Aerospace industry
A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, a milestone for…
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on…
APOD: 2026 September 6 – Pluto in Enhanced Color
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s…
Uncovered: Mars’ Hidden Moon Reveals Signs of an Ancient Catastrophe
Uncovered: Mars’ Hidden Moon Reveals Signs of an Ancient Catastrophe – Futura-Sciences September 5, 2026 3 min Mars’s…
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture…
Nasa is testing a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled |
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be…
German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race | News
Isar Aerospace says its 28-metre-long Spectrum rocket blasted off into space from Andøya spaceport in Arctic Norway. Published…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
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…
Mars’s interior was long modelled as broadly symmetrical — but a Nature study published on 27 August found evidence that the mantle beneath its southern highlands remains 200 to 400°C hotter than the north and may be partially molten, an enormous thermal divide whose origin remains unexplained.
Mars looks divided before anyone tries to see beneath its surface. The north is dominated by broad lowlands.…