Space

Researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered six massive landslides on Pluto, some large enough to bury a small city, according to a study published in the journal Icarus. The landslides were found along the inner walls of three craters on the western edge of Sputnik Planitia, the vast heart-shaped nitrogen ice […]

Researchers at Japan’s Okayama University of Science have taken a significant step toward making aquaculture a viable food source for future Moon bases by studying how shrimp feed and behave in microgravity. The findings were published in the journal Microgravity Science and Technology. The challenge is straightforward. Food does not exist naturally in space. Every […]

NASA’s next flagship orbital observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is poised to reshape humanity’s understanding of exoplanets, dark matter, and dark energy when it launches on August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. The telescope arrived at Kennedy Space Center on June 21, 2026, […]

SpaceX has reached the public markets with a valuation of roughly $85 billion, backed not by hype alone but by proven execution in reusable launch, satellite telecommunications, and emerging orbital data centers. Yet an opinion piece published by SpaceNews argues that the company’s most significant long-term challenge is no longer a question of engineering or […]

Are We Underestimating the Threat of Solar Storms? A ‘Once-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Disaster Is Worth Considering, Scientists Say The most powerful solar storms to strike Earth may pack a bigger punch than scientists realized, according to a new study that suggests the impacts of extreme space weather have been systematically underestimated. Published in Nature on July 15, […]

The Planetary Society has issued a stark warning about a proposed rule from the White House Office of Management and Budget that could fundamentally restructure how federal science agencies award research grants, with potentially severe consequences for space science and exploration. The proposed rule, published in May 2026 and running more than 400 pages, would […]

India’s Vikram-1 Set for Historic Orbital Launch on July 18 India’s private space sector is on the verge of a historic milestone. Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad-based startup that became India’s first spacetech unicorn, is set to launch Vikram-1 — the country’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket — on July 18 from the Satish Dhawan Space […]

Is Dark Matter ‘Tuned In’ to a Hidden Dimension? Dark matter has been one of physics’ most persistent mysteries. It outweighs ordinary matter by a ratio of five to one, holds galaxies together with its gravitational pull, yet remains completely invisible and refuses to interact with light or ordinary matter in any measurable way. A […]

Satellite Images of Penguin Poo Reveal Climate Change’s Impact on the Species For three decades, NASA and the US Geological Survey have operated the Landsat satellite program, quietly imaging every corner of the Earth in visible and infrared light. Scientists have now found an unexpected use for that archive: spying on penguins by analyzing the […]

China’s First Recovered Orbital Booster Returns to Port as CASC Eyes 2026 Reflight and LandSpace Prepares First Land Landing Date: 2026-07-16 Featured image: The recovered Long March 10B first stage on the Linghangzhe recovery platform, secured by the cable-net capture system; credit: Xinhua/CASC China’s first recovered orbital-class booster has returned to port aboard the recovery […]