Isar Aerospace signs contract with ESA under the European Launcher Challenge
Munich, 27 August 2026 – Space company Isar Aerospace has signed a contract with the European Space Agency…
Partial lunar eclipse Aug. 27-28 live updates — tonight is the night!
2026-08-27T10:09:26.409Z Tonight’s the night! Don’t miss the deep partial lunar eclipse (Image credit: Created in Canva Pro) The…
Why was the first picture of the Red Planet’s surface black and white – and what camera was used to take it 50 years ago?
Over 50 years ago, on July 20 1976, NASA achieved something quite incredible for humanity and photography. At…
How to watch tonight’s Blood Moon 2026 live online from anywhere in the world
There’s a ‘Blood Moon’ lunar eclipse visible on 27/28 August 2026, during which Earth will pass between the…
Titan is wider than Mercury, operates a complete methane weather cycle, and contains hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all Earth’s known oil and gas reserves. It is the only known world beyond Earth where you could stand beneath clouds beside a calm lake—provided you remained sealed inside a heated, oxygenated suit.
Titan is one of those places where a list of plain facts starts to sound like a pitch.…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Rules Out Two New Dyson Sphere Candidates
The latest Swedish-led search for technosignatures in the form of Dyson Spheres has again come up empty-handed. The…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot…
How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning…
LatConnect 60 and Phi Earth Partner to Connect Space and Soil
Nature-based projects are generating more environmental data than ever before. Satellites observe landscapes from orbit, while field teams…
Louisiana governor ‘not concerned’ about environmental impact of Gulf Coast SpaceX facility
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) brushed aside fears Wednesday morning about possible negative environmental impacts from SpaceX’s planned…
Could there be life in helium atmospheres on exoplanets?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet with a helium-dominated atmosphere. A new study suggests that there…
Rainstorms on Titan may be assembling one of life’s earliest structures without liquid water: a 2025 NASA-backed study proposes that splashes from its methane-and-ethane lakes create coated droplets which acquire a second molecular layer as they fall back, forming the same kind of bilayer compartments that preceded Earth’s first cells.
A lake on Titan does not need to behave like a warm terrestrial pond for its surface to…