Rare blue micro moon to be visible in Suffolk skies in May
The blue moon occurs around every two or three years and gets its name for being an extra…
Successful launch of SMILE Satellite marks first China-Europe mission-level cooperation in probing solar wind battles
Photos: courtesy of Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences High above our planet, a…
Europe plans reusable orbital spaceplane for post-ISS missions
Dassault Aviation and OHB announced on 11th May that they are partnering to propose to the European Space…
Smile lifts off on quest to reveal Earth’s invisible shield against the solar wind
Science & Exploration 19/05/2026 1374 views 11 likes The Smile spacecraft lifted off on a Vega-C rocket from…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever Starship V3 test gets May 20 launch date
Refresh 2026-05-19T06:03:00.677Z SpaceX Starship Flight 12 will now launch on May 21 The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s…
TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems
You’re doing some late afternoon work on the habitat as part of humanity’s first exoplanet settlement, but the…
The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned “day into night” across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more than 1,000 recovery commands afterward, the rover never woke up
In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags,…
Astronomers Find New Circumbinary “Tatooine-like” Planet Candidates
There’s a distinct category of exoworlds out there that orbit two stars. They’re called “circumbinary” planets and up…
WATCH: A Spacecraft Is Launching to Study How Earth Survives Solar Storms : ScienceAlert
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
NASA’s powerful Roman Space Telescope is about to transform astronomy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could head into space sooner than expected, with NASA now targeting a…
Asteroid 2022 OB5 Spins Too Fast For Current Prospectors Highlighting the Divide Between “Accessible” and “Exploitable”
Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out…
Northern lights may be visible in several US states tonight as 3 CMEs race toward Earth
A trio of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is currently hurtling toward Earth and space weather forecasters say we…