Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have…
SpaceX tests new vehicle, Swift gets a lift
Back to Article List Here’s what’s launching June 22–28: SpaceX debuts its uncrewed Starfall cargo return demonstrator from…
Asteroid Donaldjohanson is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped Object with Watery Past, Scientists Say
The main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, a heavily cratered fragment born from a catastrophic breakup 155 million years ago, appears…
NASA Sends the 2026 World Cup Ball Into Zero-G to Study Its Secrets
The official ball of the 2026 FIFA World Cup has completed an unusual warm‑up: a test session in…
For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a surface so young it should not exist.
NASA’s New Horizons Explained: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which left Earth nearly two decades ago and has transformed…
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission and is still flying 49 years later, now so far away that in November 2026 a radio signal will take a full 24 hours to reach it — so when engineers say “good morning” on a Monday, the answer won’t arrive until Wednesday.
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, and forty-nine years later, it…
NASA’s Soon-to-Launch Telescope Is Expected to Unveil Distant Worlds, ‘Millions’ of Stars’ and ‘Billions of Galaxies’
NEED TO KNOW NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center…
Trionda World Cup Ball in Space: NASA, ISS Test 2026 FIFA Match Ball Physics in Microgravity
The official match ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Trionda, has reached space, with astronauts aboard the…
NASA astronauts test 2026 FIFA World Cup ball ‘Trionda’ on ISS
The 2026 FIFA World Cup’s official match ball, Trionda, has been sent to the International Space Station. NASA…
NASA’s new prototype rover navigates 16-miles in extreme terrain
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has developed a 4-foot-long, four-wheeled prototype designed for high-speed, long-distance autonomous exploration on…
NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars
Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA’s Aeolus…
Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher
During a recent field test in the Colorado desert, a four-wheeled rover traveled across 16 miles (25 kilometers)…