China’s 2035 moon base could see robot dogs patrol, build and explore
In anticipation of its International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), China intends to usher in the new era of…
‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data | Solar eclipses
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik…
Astronomers have observed a wandering black hole shredding a star
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a star and a galaxy. Astronomers have recently detected a black…
How spaceflight changes astronauts’ ability to eat and drink
Imagine trying to swallow a sip of water while your face feels stuffed with congestion, your sense of…
Rocket Lab (RKLB) Won a Major Space Force Contract. Now It Has to Prove Neutron
The Pentagon Is Betting on a Rocket That Hasn’t Flown Yet Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) continues to strengthen…
In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”
The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…
NASA has contracted a purpose-built spacecraft to push the International Space Station out of orbit in late 2030, steering the 430-tonne structure towards the remote South Pacific near Point Nemo, where passing astronauts can briefly be the nearest humans
There is an uncomfortable practical question inside every permanent-looking human project: who turns off the lights? For the…
Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 3 days to totality
2026-08-09T09:29:49.860Z What actually happens during a total solar eclipse? A composite image revealing the beauty of each stage…
Elon Musk says SpaceX will hit $1 trillion in revenue by 2030 and build factories on the moon
Elon Musk loves a bold prediction. From humans colonizing Mars to flooding U.S. roads with robotaxis by 2020,…
For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch
We built clocks around the day and then quietly began treating the day as though it were a…
Here’s what to expect from 5 stages of the total solar eclipse 2026
We’re just a few short days away from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse, when millions will watch…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together since the solar system’s birth
At 5:33 UTC on 1 January 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed roughly 3,500 kilometres from a small…