Venus disappears behind the Moon, 14 September 2026. Here’s how to see the lunar occultation
Venus will disappear behind the Moon on 14 September 2026, from 09:30 BST (08:30 UT), in an event…
Eutelsat orders extra OneWeb satellites and kicks off IRIS² LEO contracts
TAMPA, Fla. — Eutelsat has ordered another 229 OneWeb satellites to extend its low Earth orbit broadband constellation…
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Explanation: Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long…
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid…
SpaceX CFO Says First Paying Starship Flight Is Weeks Away, Reiterates $100B ARR Milestone By Year-End
SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference that a recent hosting deal…
eROSITA’s Second Data Release Catalog Delivering the Most Comprehensive High-Energy Census of the Cosmos to Date
The eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) telescope, the primary instrument aboard the Russian-German Spektr-RG…
The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
Earth has an unusually large moon compared with other rocky planets in the solar system, but scientists still…
France Launches Refresh Of Space-Based Elint
France Launches Refresh Of Space-Based Elint | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Robert Wall September 10,…
Scientists Tried Recreating Uranian and Neptunian Ice. Here’s What Happened
In 2018, scientists confirmed the existence of superionic ice—an odd phase of water that’s part solid and part…
On this day in space! Sept. 10, 2011: NASA launches GRAIL probes to the moon to map lumpy lunar gravity
On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! GRAIL, which stands for…
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
A little after 2am Pacific time on 23 September 1999, a spacecraft slipped behind Mars and never came…
Mercury is shrinking faster than we thought. What’s going on inside of it?
Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster…