In a major move to kickstart the lunar economy, NASA announced on May 4, 2026, that it has awarded a $6.9 million contract to the Seattle-based startup Interlune. This project … Read More
In a discovery that is upending our understanding of how planets hold onto their air, astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny, icy rock in the far reaches … Read More
In a breakthrough discovery that feels like a scene from a space thriller, astronomers using the world’s most powerful telescopes have successfully tracked an “optically dark” gamma-ray burst (GRB) to … Read More
In a landmark achievement for astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has successfully bypassed the thick atmospheres that usually cloud our view of distant worlds to study an exoplanet’s … Read More
Skywatchers are on alert as Earth experiences a burst of solar activity. Following a G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm that hit late on April 30, the Northern Lights have been dazzling … Read More
Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking strategy for finding water on Mars: using low-flying drones equipped with specialized radar. A recent study, published on May 1, 2026, suggests that these aerial … Read More
The world has welcomed home the crew of Artemis 2, the first humans to venture to the lunar vicinity in over half a century. Following their successful journey around the … Read More
The dream of reaching the stars is a common one, but the path to becoming a NASA astronaut is far more rigorous—and occasionally more bizarre—than most people realize. Space.com pulls … Read More
A Sacrifice for Science: Saving Voyager 1 Floating more than 25 billion kilometers (15 billion miles) from Earth, Voyager 1 is currently traveling through the “interstellar medium”—the vast space between … Read More
