Stargazers across the Americas will have prime viewing conditions as Earth’s shadow briefly envelops the moon in a deep partial eclipse on Thursday night, August 27, 2026, into…
NASA has canceled its commercial rescue mission to save the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, dooming the space telescope to plunge through Earth’s atmosphere and burn up…
President Donald Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew on August 28, recognizing their historic lunar flyby that set a record for the…
Microbes from Earth could survive on parts of the moon’s South Pole, according to a study published on August 19, 2026, in the journal TPR by … Read more
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back at Pluto following its historic July 14, 2015, flyby, sunlight scattering through a tenuous nitrogen atmosphere revealed a striking … Read more
NASA-led researchers simulating conditions at the Moon’s South Pole have found that five common Earth microbes could survive for weeks to months in permanently shadowed craters. … Read more
NASA has successfully tested a lightweight, flexible radar antenna for the SkyFall Mars helicopters, a key step toward a 2028 mission to map subsurface ice on … Read more
NASA announced the failure of its mission to save the 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope vital for studying gamma-ray bursts. The mission, costing … Read more
NASA has published the first images of a lunar crater formed when the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX slammed into the … Read more
NASA has called off its $30 million rescue mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the private Katalyst Space Technologies spacecraft suffered disabling control … Read more
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has mapped a fresh 60-foot crater carved into the Moon by a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage. The rocket part crashed … Read more
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot successfully removed a malfunctioning Space-to-Ground antenna from the International Space Station on August 18, 2026. … Read more