NASA’s Utah ambassador discovers his 10th supernova
SALT LAKE CITY — Patrick Wiggins, NASA’s ambassador to Utah, has discovered his 10th supernova — a milestone…
GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its…
Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial path to deliver electrical power from orbit
WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercial proposals to beam electrical power between spacecraft and from…
Violent supernova remnants may still nurture the chemistry of life
Astronomers have found warm cocoons of gas wrapped around newborn stars inside the wreckage of a star that…
A laser disappears into the Milky Way’s heart photo of the day for July 16, 2026
The Gemini South Observatory shoots out a beam of light. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek) A laser…
Saturn’s moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
The Huygens probe drifted under a parachute through an orange haze on January 14, 2005, and set down…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
Jupiter’s strange icy moon has a secret ocean, making it one of the best places to search for life in our Solar System
At first glance, Jupiter’s moon Europa might look less like a cradle for life and more like a…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Rocket stages stacked and ready for liftoff today
2026-07-16T11:29:18.830Z Starship stacked, awaiting launch countdown SpaceX’s first Starship V3 vehicle launches on a test flight on May…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 communications satellites for the Space Development Agency – Spaceflight Now
A batch of 21 satellites manufactured by York Space Systems are prepared for encapsulation in a SpaceX Falcon…
SDA resumes data relay satellite launch following tech fixes
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency (SDA) is restarting launch of it first-generation Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites…
What if disabled astronauts are just better suited to space?
The UK Space Agency and space startup Vast just signed an agreement to send Paralympic sprinter and below-knee…