Pluto Planetary Science is the Gift that Keeps on Giving
Something’s wetting the surface of dwarf planet Pluto along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, and planetary scientists…
Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way | Astronomy
Astronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way, hurtling around the supermassive black hole at…
This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy : NPR
This image traces the orbital paths of all known stars orbiting the massive black hole at the center…
NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce
NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students…
Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to spacewalk on 18 August 2026, but the job she went outside to finish remains unfinished — stubborn electrical cables ate the time she needed to install a new antenna
The suits switched to battery power at 8:29 a.m. EDT on 18 August 2026, and the clock that…
NASA Images Show Crater On The Moon Caused By SpaceX Falcon 9 Crash
They were taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines In the early…
The space industry’s next challenge: supply chain resilience
America’s space economy is scaling faster than its industrial base can support. Commercial constellations are proliferating, national security…
A camera the size of a small car, sitting on a mountain in Chile, began taking a new image of the southern sky every 40 seconds on 30 June 2026 — building a ten-year time-lapse of the universe that will scan the entire southern sky every few nights and issue up to seven million alerts a night whenever something moves or flickers.
On 30 June 2026, a camera roughly the size of a small car stopped being primarily an engineering…
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky ‘mega-Earth’ 23 times more massive than our planet
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive, dense exoplanet that challenges conventional ideas about how rocky planets form. Called…
China becomes first nation to recover orbital launch rockets with 2 distinct paths
In a global first, leading Chinese commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital…
Hera’s Mars flyby guided impact study of Deimos moon
Space Safety 18/08/2026 1137 views 29 likes A new study – guided by flyby images from ESA’s Hera…
Closest black hole to Earth is Gaia BH1, 1,600 lightyears
The closest black hole to Earth is a stellar mass black hole just 1,600 lightyears away called Gaia…