Space

Five Years, 36 Flights: SpaceX Booster B1067 Shatters the Reusability Record Again Featured image: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars near the Moon from the perspective of the Kennedy Space Center during the Starlink 10-42 mission on July 9, 2026. Credit: SpaceX/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s booster B1067 launched for the 36th time on Thursday morning, flying […]

Clay, Water and the Search for Life: Why ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Rover Is Targeting Mars’ Ancient Seabed Date: 2026-07-10 Featured image: Artist’s illustration of the Rosalind Franklin rover on the Martian surface. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover is zeroing in on a 2028 launch to Oxia Planum, a clay-rich basin on Mars […]

!Apollo 12 astronaut on the lunar surface holding a container of soil, with a second astronaut reflected in his helmet visor. Credit: NASA A team of Japanese researchers has grown rice in simulated lunar soil using nothing more than air, electricity, and a device the size of a shoebox, marking a major advance for the […]

!CubeSats deployed into Earth orbit from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Tracy Dyson A Miami company just switched on the first commercial nuclear power source in orbit, opening a new frontier for space energy that has long been the exclusive domain of governments. City Labs launched its BOHR satellite (short for Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) on […]

!NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA / Wikimedia Commons July 9, 2026 — The dream of sending humans to Mars has never felt closer, but a sobering new study from the University of Central Florida suggests the journey itself may come with […]

For decades, the satellite industry told rocket builders what they needed, and launch vehicle designers complied. But in 2026, that dynamic has turned on its head. SpaceX’s Starship, a super-heavy-lift rocket capable of delivering more than 100 metric tons (220,000 pounds) to low-Earth orbit, is rewriting the rules of the launch business. Rather than engineers […]

Antarctica’s South Pole Telescope Spies 7,000+ Hidden Galaxy Clusters in Five-Year Sky Survey A team of physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory has released a catalog of more than 7,000 galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over five years of observations, delivering the most extensive census yet of the universe’s largest gravitationally […]

!LAGEOS satellite, a passive laser-ranged spacecraft similar in design to LARES-2, used for precision tests of general relativity. Credit: NASA. The LAGEOS satellite, a passive laser-ranged spacecraft whose design lineage extends to LARES-2. Both satellites use arrays of retroreflectors to bounce laser pulses from ground stations, enabling millimeter-precision tracking of their orbits. Credit: NASA. July […]

The Milky Way just got a little bigger. New measurements from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton show that our galaxy’s outer spiral arms may extend roughly 10% farther from the galactic center than previously thought, a finding that could force astronomers to revise the estimated mass and structure of our home galaxy. The […]

!Artemis II Crew Portrait The Artemis II crew (clockwise from left): NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Credit: NASA / Josh Valcarcel Washington, D.C. — July 9, 2026 — President Donald Trump has gifted the Artemis astronaut corps an American flag that flew above the United […]