A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Punch a New Crater Into the Moon
The Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA This Wednesday, at around 06:35:37.5 UTC, a…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean — but can we get to them?
NASA’s Europa Clipper is currently on a 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter, tasked with assessing whether the icy moon…
APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
SpaceX investors urge company to paint its rockets pink and rename them
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
The 1st ‘three-headed’ asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
A collage of images of asteroid (44) Nysa, believed to be the first-known asteroid in our solar system…
Dynamic Earth to host solar eclipse event in Edinburgh
Professor Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. (Image: Supplied) Free drop-in activities will run from 12pm to 4pm,…
Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
Water buried beneath the moon may be detectable by listening to how vibrations move through the lunar ground.…
Astronomers watch a black hole’s feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe the violent outflow of material from a distant…
NASA unveils first new wind tunnel in over 80 years
HAMPTON, Virginia – NASA opened its first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years Friday, marking…
AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)
Martin Halliwell is a Partner at NewSpace Capital, one of the world’s first private equity firms devoted exclusively…