Sky and Solar

NASA's Voyager 1 probe bounces back from communications glitch in interstellar space
05 November 2026

NASA's Voyager 1 probe is back in communication after the 49-year-old spacecraft briefly fell silent last month, during its interstellar-space mission.
Earth photobombs spacewalking Canadian astronaut | Space photo of the day for Nov. 5, 2026
05 November 2026

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk poses for a photo mid-spacewalk on Oct. 29, 2026.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is the 1st Black woman to command a space mission. Will we see more diversity in the future on the final frontier?
05 November 2026

"Diversity makes the crew stronger."
NASA announces experimental X-70 Fractal aircraft: A 'new beginning for aeronautics'
05 November 2026

NASA has announced its next X-plane, known as the X-70 Fractal, designed to test advanced maneuverability and which will feature a rapidly reconfigurable design.
China lays out plans to land astronauts on the moon 'before 2030.' Can NASA still win this race?
05 November 2026

China has laid out its roadmap for landing astronauts on the moon "before 2030," a milestone that NASA hopes to achieve in 2028.

Happy New Year, Mars! The Red Planet is turning 39
29 September 2026

On 30 September the Red Planet officially begins Mars Year 39. Which is quite an achievement for a world that is actually more than 4.5 billion years old.
3I/ATLAS was born in the deep freeze
08 September 2026

Another piece of evidence suggests that this visitor formed in the bitterly cold outer reaches of a distant planetary system.
Roman Space Telescope launches on mission to survey the Universe
30 August 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space, starting a mission that will survey the Universe on an unprecedented scale in search of clues to dark energy, dark matter and worlds beyond our Solar System.
JWST’s ‘impossible’ early galaxies may be even more massive than we thought
24 August 2026

Faint, low-mass stars could be hiding much of the mass in distant galaxies, making the surprisingly large galaxies discovered by JWST in the early Universe even harder to explain.
How to observe the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse
07 August 2026

On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, producing a striking solar eclipse. Find out how, when and where to observe it safely.
Falcon 9 lunar impact: More than a new crater
05 August 2026

Today’s impact of a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage on the Moon may sound dramatic, but it is neither the first human-made object to strike our natural satellite nor the largest.