SSpace Read More A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice CapAugust 3, 2026 Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
SSpace Read More Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright starAugust 3, 2026 For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space…
SSpace Read More Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune’s moonsAugust 3, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 3 : New observations of some of Neptune’s moons and rings are providing evidence of a…
SSpace Read More On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit MercuryAugust 3, 2026 On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
SSpace Read More Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surfaceAugust 3, 2026 Water buried beneath the moon may be detectable by listening to how vibrations move through the lunar ground.…
SSpace Read More Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surfaceAugust 3, 2026 Water buried beneath the moon may be detectable by listening to how vibrations move through the lunar ground.…
SSpace Read More Astronomers watch a black hole’s feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestionAugust 3, 2026 Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe the violent outflow of material from a distant…
SSpace Read More SpaceX’s first results put Musk’s AI spending under Wall Street microscopeAugust 3, 2026 By Akash Sriram August 3 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s first earnings report since its record-breaking IPO will provide an…
SSpace Read More Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign – BBCAugust 3, 2026 Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign BBCArtists, writers and scientists urge UK government to…
SSpace Read More AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)August 3, 2026 Martin Halliwell is a Partner at NewSpace Capital, one of the world’s first private equity firms devoted exclusively…
SSpace Read More NASA unveils first new wind tunnel in over 80 yearsAugust 3, 2026 HAMPTON, Virginia – NASA opened its first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years Friday, marking…
SSpace Read More The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years – The Times of IndiaAugust 3, 2026 The tiny helicopter Nasa built to survive 30 days on Mars ended up flying for nearly three years The…