Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA has selected commercial space station company Vast to fly a private astronaut mission to…
ESA satellite finds ‘inside-out’ planetary system that challenges formation theories
By Roselyne Min with AFP Published on 13/02/2026 – 12:57 GMT+1 Astronomers say they have discovered a distant planetary system with…
NASA Puts 21-Year-Old Spacecraft on Pause to Keep It From Crashing Into Earth
NASA is racing to save an aging space telescope before it burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. To do…
Saturn’s Ring System, Hyperion and Titan May Have Originated in Collision of Two Proto-Moons
In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute,…
US plans 500kW lunar nuclear reactor in bold 2030 space power push
NASA could place a powerful 500-kilowatt-electric (kWe) nuclear reactor on the Moon by the end of 2030, as…
NASA Thinks Boeing’s Starliner Can Fly in April, Which Is Hilarious
Starliner’s first crewed test flight didn’t exactly go as planned. NASA and Boeing are still troubleshooting the technical…
US-China Space Race Just Heated Up As Xi Jinping-Led Nation Wants Orbital Datacenters, Space Tourism
The race to dominate the burgeoning space-based AI compute sector, which outlines putting solar-powered AI satellites into orbit…
Enceladus Plays Bigger Role in Shaping Saturn’s Space Environment than Previously Thought
A new analysis of data from four instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated the crucial role that…
Urgent to understand how human fertility functions beyond Earth, scientists say
As humans spend increasing amounts of time in space, whether for work or tourism, scientists are calling for…
Elon Musk Says NASA Will Account For Only 5% Of SpaceX’s Revenue In 2026: ‘I Love NASA, But…’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared that NASA would account for only 5% of the commercial space flight…
Hubble Captures Clearest View Yet of Egg Nebula
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals for the first time the delicate interplay of…
Infleqtion and NASA to Fly the World’s First Quantum Gravity Sensor to Space
With more than $20 million in contracted mission funding to date, the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder Mission, Led…