Space

On the evening of June 16, 2026, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying…

Metasurface grating gives solar telescopes a boost – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…

How do you install new software onto a computer you can never touch, hurtling through deep space at…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a remarkable milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2…

Credit: Craig Taylor Photography, via Shutterstock – Staff Writer · 13 July, 2026 Every summer, the night sky…

India has approved the acquisition of a fixed-wing High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) capability to strengthen…

Topline The month’s new moon occurs at 5:43 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 14, but it is no…

Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the answer to the July Puzzler. Call it an alluvial face-off. On the southern…

The most distant object humans have ever built runs on computers with less memory than a typical phone…

By the time a spacecraft’s radio signal reaches Earth from the outer Solar System, it is no longer…

As NASA prepares for its next mission to the Moon, it has announced PROMISE – the rover it…

The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost…

By mid-2026 a single company, SpaceX, had more than 10,000 Starlink satellites circling the Earth — roughly two of every three active satellites in orbit now belong to one man’s network