What’s Up: February 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
NASA’s Artemis II mission has its first opportunity to launch to the moon, Orion the Hunter takes center…
Asteroid hurtling towards the moon to be ‘most energetic lunar impact ever’ and risks sending meteors smashing into Earth
An asteroid which risks colliding with the moon in just years could produce “the most energetic lunar impact…
One Catastrophic Event Could Cause All Of Earth’s Satellites To Crash In Just Days
Alones Creative/Getty Images Humanity has invested a lot…
Bright ‘shooting star’ delights Wellingtonians
A large flash that lit up the night sky over much of New Zealand was captured by a…
NASA Selects Axiom Space for Fifth Private Astronaut Mission to International Space Station
HOUSTON, Jan. 30, 2026 – NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the fifth private…
Wellington night sky lit up by ‘meteorite’ flying overhead
But Olson had “never seen anything like that before, that’s for sure”. “Everyone’s calling it a meteorite.” The…
Here’s why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program
Blue Origin has “paused” its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals…
Russian ‘inspector’ satellite appears to break apart in orbit, raising debris concerns
A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high…
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission to the moon puts Crew-12 SpaceX launch in delicate dance
It is the best of times, and it is (far from, actually,) the worst of time for NASA,…
Japan Botched a Satellite Launch in One of the Weirdest Ways Possible
New details have emerged regarding Japan’s H3 rocket failure last month, revealing the strange way its payload—a navigation…
Blue Origin pauses space flights to focus on lunar lander : NPR
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches from West Texas on March 31, 2022. Blue Origin has announced…
NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars
Since 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio…