ISS Astronauts Capture Stunning Images of Earth’s Auroras and Lights
Astronauts on the International Space Station have photographed Earth’s auroras and city lights from 250 miles up.
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NASA to Deploy Rovers to Map Lunar Water Ice by 2027
NASA is deploying robotic exploration rovers and crewed lunar terrain vehicles to the lunar South Pole by 2027 and 2028 to map terrain, test subsystems, and locate water ice…
Bennu Sample Analysis Reveals Primordial Secrets of Asteroid
Researchers analyzing rock fragments returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu have uncovered the secret behind its surprisingly porous and fractured boulders.
Black Hole Hunters Project Recruits Volunteers to Find Black Holes
Researchers are recruiting global volunteers through a citizen science platform to analyze space telescope data, combining machine learning with human classification to hunt for…
Hubble Space Telescope Spots Dusty Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1827
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of NGC 1827, an edge-on spiral galaxy 37 million light-years away in Columba, part of a survey to study low-mass galaxies and…
Christina Koch to Become NASA Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
NASA astronaut Christina Koch will transition to management astronaut status and step down from flight eligibility on November 1, to become the agency’s acting deputy chief…
Solar Orbiter Traces S-Shaped Sun Kinks to Hot Surface Loops
Flying halfway between Earth and the Sun, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed directly through an S-shaped magnetic switchback and traced its origins to hot solar surface loops.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launching 6,300 Pounds of Cargo to ISS
NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying more than 6,300 pounds of science experiments and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday…
NASA and Rivals Race to Install Nuclear Reactors on Moon
Space agencies are accelerating timelines to deploy nuclear reactors on the Moon by December 2030, driven by an intensifying geopolitical race for lunar resources, permanent…
SpaceX Sets U.S. Record for Fastest Crewed Journey to the ISS
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission arrived at the International Space Station on October 1, 2026, setting a U.S. record with a flight time of just 7 hours and 55 minutes.
NASA Releases 800GB of Artemis II Lunar Flyby Data
NASA published over 800 gigabytes of Artemis II data on October 7, 2026, featuring 11,000 images, audio recordings, and astronaut field notes from the historic lunar flyby.
NASA Selects GIMLI to Probe Marius Hills Pit for Lunar Base
NASA has selected a Planetary Science Institute proposal to investigate the Marius Hills Pit on the moon, deploying radar, seismic instruments, and gravity sensors to determine…