Could meteor storms harm NASA’s future moon missions?
Meteor showers are among the most beautiful phenomena to brighten Earth’s sky, but could the fast moving space…
Kaleidoscopic meteorite could be a piece of a ‘lost world’ from the early solar system — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454 grams) angrite meteorite Where it was found: The…
The Space Startup Building Infrastructure For A Trillion-Dollar Frontier
The founding team of Mantis Space Scott Foley Photography, LLC. Courtesy of Mantis Space, Inc. A new generation…
Jupiter and Venus conjunction 2026: See two bright planets at the same time this weekend
In one of 2026’s skywatching highlights, the two brightest planets in the night sky will appear very close…
The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left…
Otford village solar system model shows planets and stars
A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world’s largest scale model of…
SpaceX IPO: Why Starship Could End Overnight Business Travel
Topline As investors prepare for what could be one of the biggest IPOs ever, SpaceX is increasingly valued…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX float shows why ‘one share, one vote’ matters – The Times
Elon Musk’s SpaceX float shows why ‘one share, one vote’ matters The TimesWho can buy shares in Elon Musk’s…
See two planets kiss this weekend. Venus and Jupiter are bright in the west after sunset. Here’s how to see the Solar System encounter
If you head out this weekend, 5–7 June 2026, and look to the western sky just after sunset,…
Magnetic fields are invisible, but researchers have just built the most detailed photo yet showing nearly four million galaxies
I’ve long been awed by photographs of the night sky, but one of the latest images to stop…
China launches space computing hub as SpaceX gears up for historic IPO
China is ramping up its bets on space-based artificial intelligence computing with the launch of a state-backed research…
The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes
The International Space Station travels fast enough that its crew pass through sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets in…