DARPA readies robotic deep-space repair satellite for 2026 launch
DARPA is at last ready to test fueling up satellites in faraway Earth orbits, to keep those machines…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Cleared For Launch After Suffering Malfunction
After suffering an embarrassing setback with the third launch of the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin is hoping…
In 1995, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere that kept transmitting for just 58 minutes as it fell, returning the first direct readings from inside the giant planet before rising heat and pressure silenced it for good
On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and…
The International Space Station has sprung a new leak
The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back!…
China Launched Artificial Embryos to Orbit to Find Out If We Can Have Space Babies
Humanity’s looming ambition to colonize the Moon and Mars faces one major obstacle: our ability to reproduce beyond…
How Mars Can Help Us Understand ‘Marginal’ Exoplanets
Mars holds a special place in the Solar System. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from…
Carl Sagan’s team considered sending a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman on the Voyager Golden Record, but after the controversy over the nude Pioneer plaque, the final record used a silhouette instead
In late 1971, after NASA approved the idea of sending a message aboard Pioneer 10, Carl Sagan was…
Astronomers find an unusual exoplanet with cloudy mornings and clear evenings
Astronomers studying a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere have one persistent problem: clouds. They scatter light, muddle readings, and tend…
Michael Collins, dubbed by the press “the loneliest man in history” while orbiting the far side of the Moon for roughly forty-seven minutes at a time, gently corrected the description — he said he felt isolated, but never lonely
As the command module Columbia slipped behind the Moon on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 and lost…
Scientists Just Found Evidence That Asteroids May Have Helped Create Life on Earth
Researchers in South Korea found ancient stromatolites inside an asteroid impact crater, pointing to a surprising link between…
When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good — but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all
On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a…
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart – Futura-Sciences May 25, 2026 3…