The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon on August 5, 2026, creating an 18-meter-wide impact crater. Telescopes in Chile detected spectral … Read more
NASA engineers executed a high-stakes power and thermal reconfiguration nicknamed the Big Bang on Voyager 2 this July, freeing almost 10 watts of electrical power and … Read more
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a massive cosmic object in the Cetus constellation that resembles a star but derives its energy from … Read more
The Perseid meteor shower delivered a dazzling spectacle in August 2026, with observers in the UAE and globally reporting up to 150 meteors per hour at … Read more
Sophie Adenot, a European Space Agency astronaut, conducted her first spacewalk on August 18, 2026, to replace a critical communication antenna on the International Space Station … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared image yet of planetary nebula NGC 2392, popularly known as the Lion Nebula. Located roughly 10,000 … Read more
NASA’s upcoming SkyFall trio of Mars helicopters, scheduled for a late 2028 launch aboard Space Reactor-1 Freedom, will feature a revolutionary, ultra-lightweight Vivaldi antenna made of … Read more
An enigmatic dark silhouette spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on August 20, 2023, has sparked intense debate among space enthusiasts, with online observers … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution infrared image of planetary nebula NGC 2392, revealing complex dust structures and ionized gas bubbles driven by … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and silicate dust within the expanding envelope of star IRS 3, located just 0.55 light-years from the … Read more
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered magnesium-rich phyllosilicates on Neptune’s inner moons Larissa and Galatea. The unexpected clay minerals reveal that these small … Read more
During NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I moon mission, a specialized radiation-shielding vest called AstroRad successfully protected a female test dummy named Zohar from high-energy solar radiation. Researchers … Read more