Space

Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in April 2026, flying exactly 4,101 miles farther — then proposing names for two lunar craters as the crew passed overhead

July 19, 2026

The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a…

An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature

July 19, 2026

A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy Archive in…

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In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth

July 18, 2026

On 2 January 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres…

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An artist's impression of a superluminous supernova and an associated gamma-ray burst being driven by a rapidly spinning neutron star. Credit: CfA

July 18, 2026

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an…

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A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make

July 18, 2026

The dwarf galaxy Sextans A is poor in the elements astronomers collectively call metals. Yet observations from the…

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July 18, 2026

Scientists’ exodus: ‘Interference is hurting ISRO, restore its autonomy’ The Times of IndiaCosmic ‘Race’ MillenniumPostIndia’s space dream needs more than…

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SpaceX (SPCX) Is Spending $60 Billion To Build An AI Infrastructure Business

July 18, 2026

In mid-July 2026, SpaceX’s highly anticipated 13th Starship test flight was automatically aborted seconds before liftoff due to…

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July 18, 2026

Move over SpaceX: China and Japan flex reusable rockets NBC NewsChina lands reusable rocket for first time, state media…

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Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb

July 18, 2026

The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly…

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Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone

July 18, 2026

A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…

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Beyond the Perseids — 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer

July 18, 2026

The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the…

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Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch

July 18, 2026

Researchers working with material returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reported on 16 July 2025 that they had used…

An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature

In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet’s tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth

Submillimeter Array Catches a Gamma-Ray Burst Thanks to new Fast-Response System

A primitive dwarf galaxy with almost none of the heavy elements found in the Milky Way is somehow producing iron and silicon-carbide dust — materials astronomers thought early galaxies would struggle to make

Scientists’ exodus: ‘Interference is hurting ISRO, restore its autonomy’ – The Times of India

SpaceX (SPCX) Is Down 14.7% After Starship Abort and Rising Scrutiny of Its Lofty Valuation

Move over SpaceX: China and Japan flex reusable rockets – NBC News

Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb

Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone

Beyond the Perseids — 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer

Researchers extracted water directly from lunar soil in July 2025 and used sunlight to convert it into breathable oxygen and rocket fuel — cutting out any need to ship water from Earth, where a single gallon costs an estimated $83,000 to launch