On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic…
Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 3 days to totality
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Europe’s first total solar eclipse in almost 30 years: What you need to know | World News
Day will briefly turn into night for parts of Europe this week as the continent experiences its first…
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…
50th Vandenberg Launch as East Coast Slows, X Report 9 Aug 2026
Latest Developments SpaceX flew its 71st operational Starlink delivery of 2026 on August 8, sending 24 satellites into…
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…
Want to see a solar eclipse and a meteor shower in one day? US astronomer reveals all you should know to enjoy the stargazing event of the year
August will bring two opportunities to look skyward as a solar eclipse and the annual Perseid meteor shower…
Elon Musk says Starship Flight 13 recovery ‘not looking good’ despite successful splashdown
Elon Musk says Starship Flight 13 recovery ‘not looking good’ despite successful splashdown SpaceX‘s attempt to recover its…
NASA gives Voyager 2 a new lease on life nearly 48 years after launch
Nearly 48 years after its launch, NASA engineers have found a way to keep Voyager 2’s mission going…
NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar system that will not repeat until the 2150s
Voyager 2 left Cape Canaveral at 14:29:44 UTC on 20 August 1977. Its Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket supplied the…
Solar eclipse to occur next week. Here is what to know : NPR
The Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse at Lake Monroe on April…