SSpace Read More The Reason American Spacecraft Land In The Ocean – But Russian Ones Don’tMay 18, 2026 Bettmann/Getty Images While not as visually striking as…
SSpace Read More SpaceX Dragon Docks to Station Filled with New Science ExperimentsMay 18, 2026 At 6:37 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s…
SSpace Read More ‘Truly significant’: James Webb telescope reveals largest-ever map of the universe’s hidden megastructuresMay 18, 2026 Astronomers have reconstructed the “skeleton” of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by…
SSpace Read More The ISS travels at 17,500 miles per hour, which means astronauts inside it are aging measurably slower than people on the ground, and by the time Scott Kelly returned from his year in orbit he was 5 milliseconds younger than his identical twin brother Mark.May 18, 2026 Scott Kelly came home from 340 days on the International Space Station in March 2016 fractionally younger than…
SSpace Read More SpaceX Starship Launch: When To See Tuesday’s High-Stakes Flight TestMay 18, 2026 SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Tuesday, Nov.…
SSpace Read More Most people think SpaceX’s $1.75 trillion valuation is about rockets, but the real engine driving the largest IPO in history is Starlink — the satellite internet network that didn’t exist a decade ago and now has more subscribers than the entire population of SwedenMay 18, 2026 When most people picture SpaceX, they picture a rocket. The booster landing itself on a barge. The Starship…
SSpace Read More The moon is moving away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year — which means the total solar eclipses humans alive today get to see are something no future civilisation will ever witnessMay 18, 2026 Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong left a suitcase-sized array of corner-cube retroreflectors on the Sea…
SSpace Read More The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the missionMay 18, 2026 The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million…
SSpace Read More AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory – BBCMay 18, 2026 AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory BBCRoyal Observatory Warns AI May Diminish Human Intelligence Oz Arab MediaInstant…
SSpace Read More Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he diedMay 18, 2026 Stephen Hawking died in March 2018. In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange.…
SSpace Read More Starwatch: A young crescent moon journeys past Venus and Jupiter | AstronomyMay 18, 2026 Keep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over…
SSpace Read More Lessons from an astronaut: Artemis II crew shares advice on risk, work and friendshipMay 18, 2026 Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and his Artemis II crewmates have shared some of the life lessons they learned…