Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks up in rare retrograde orbit
HELSINKI — A Chinese satellite launched into an unusual orbit early this year has suffered an apparent fragmentation…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
SpaceX Dragon Leak Delays NASA’s Next Astronaut Launch
The Milky Way appears in the vastness of space behind the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
Spacecraft Settles for Photos of NASA’s Sinking Telescope
A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA’s Swift Observatory managed to get…
No telescope needed: September’s night sky is about to put on a show
September brings brilliant Venus, the Harvest Moon, an equinox, and several easy-to-spot celestial sights in the night sky.…
Mars’s interior was long modelled as broadly symmetrical — but a Nature study published on 27 August found evidence that the mantle beneath its southern highlands remains 200 to 400°C hotter than the north and may be partially molten, an enormous thermal divide whose origin remains unexplained.
Mars looks divided before anyone tries to see beneath its surface. The north is dominated by broad lowlands.…
On this day in space! Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 on epic journey across the solar system
On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch…
Back to School 2026-2027: 5 school projects to engage your students in STEM
Agency 04/09/2026 311 views 5 likes This year, take your students’ learning beyond the classroom and into space!…
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
NASA funds spacecraft concept that aims to map minerals on solar system planets and moons
Nearby Earth, an iconic series of orbiting U.S. government satellites called Landsat have collectively been charting minerals and…
War on Earth could spill over to the moon, Chinese space scientists warn
In a rare study, Chinese aerospace researchers have explored how a war could one day spill into the…