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…
International Observe the Moon Night 2026 shines tonight — Here’s how to join in
Moon lovers rejoice! International Observe the Moon Night returns tonight (Sept. 19). Here’s everything you need to know…
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…
Final ViaSat-3 enters service as SES wraps up O3b mPower launch campaign
TAMPA, Fla. — The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the…
In 2004, scientists began installing 1,660 orange water tanks the size of small rooms across 3,000 square kilometers of Argentine grassland, and two decades later that grid is still waiting for cosmic rays far more energetic than any particle accelerator has produced to strike water and flash blue
Twenty-two years ago, trucks started rolling across Mendoza province in western Argentina, dropping off tanks that look, from…
Why Every Astronaut Since 1964 Has Flown The Same Jet That NASA Must Now Replace
The Northrop T-38N Talon has been a staple of NASA’s astronaut program since 1964. The fleet of 25…
Orders rebound amid signs of a GEO renaissance
TAMPA, Fla. — There are early signs of a resurgence in communications satellites destined for commercial customers in…
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…
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…
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…