FLEX and Sentinel-3C sealed within Vega-C fairing
Applications 02/09/2026 158 views 3 likes At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, preparations for one of the year’s…
Falcon Heavy brings the heat photo of the day for Sept. 2, 2026
Fire spews from the 27 Merlin engines of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during the launch of NASA’s…
NASA Rocket Takes First Multi-Point Look Inside Radio-Disrupting Clouds
High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E…
Scientists may have detected the 1st direct evidence of dark matter
In what could be a groundbreaking discovery, scientists report they may have detected the first direct evidence of…
A bright space station will soar over the US this week — and it’s not the ISS. Here’s how to see it
You may have seen the International Space Station whizzing across the night sky before, but have you ever…
APOD: 2026 September 2 – Solar Eclipses and Culture
Explanation: Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole…
ESA’s first lunar rover rolls forward
Science & Exploration 02/09/2026 512 views 9 likes Yesterday evening, during a signing ceremony at the Space for…
Researchers tested gravity across galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years and found it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, strengthening the case for dark matter
Astronomers have discovered that stars in the outer portions of galaxies tend to move much faster than expected…
Every galaxy in our neighborhood, including our own, is being pulled toward a single point in space hidden directly behind the crowded disk of the Milky Way, and when astronomers finally looked through the dust, they found a large, previously hidden cluster of thousands of galaxies sitting almost exactly where the pull was coming from
In 1986, a small team of astronomers noticed something that did not add up. They were measuring how…
All 16 New Russian Starlink-Rival Satellites Short of Target Orbit
An entire batch of Russian low Earth orbit satellites, intended to help create Moscow’s version of Starlink, has failed…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from the direction of Sagittarius with the highest incoming speed of any known interstellar visitor, accelerated to nearly 250,000 kilometres per hour near the Sun, and is now escaping on a hyperbolic trajectory that will never bring it back.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is doing something no ordinary long-period comet does. It is leaving the Solar System without…
Blue Origin Wins NASA Contract For Telecommunications On Mars
NASA announced today that it has awarded Blue Origin the contract to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network. The…