Another Canadian is preparing to head to space, this time for ISS mission
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The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases
A SpaceX rocket that has been drifting in space for a year and a half is set to…
A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Punch a New Crater Into the Moon
The Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA This Wednesday, at around 06:35:37.5 UTC, a…
SpaceX investors urge company to paint its rockets pink and rename them
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MaiaSpace Losses Required ArianeGroup to Decide on Company’s Future
Credit: MaiaSpace ArianeGroup has decided against dissolving MaiaSpace after the company posted a €37.5 million loss for 2025,…
APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star
For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…
The 1st ‘three-headed’ asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
A collage of images of asteroid (44) Nysa, believed to be the first-known asteroid in our solar system…
On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
Water buried beneath the moon may be detectable by listening to how vibrations move through the lunar ground.…
Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
Water buried beneath the moon may be detectable by listening to how vibrations move through the lunar ground.…