Sky and Solar

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 236 — Alienspotting
14 November 2026

On Episode 236 of This Week In Space, Tariq Malik and Rod Pyle are joined by Mikhail Tikhonov to talk about how life can take more unusual forms, ones we might not even recognize.
'Alien: Fireteam Elite 2' is a good old-fashioned bug hunt, ironically plagued by bugs
14 November 2026

We're scared of the Xenomorphs again, but Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 knows old-fashioned bug hunts shouldn't be a thing of the past.
Why did Starship Flight 15 booster abort 'chopsticks' landing catch? SpaceX still investigating (video)
14 November 2026

SpaceX is looking into why its latest Starship megarocket test flight missed the first of two planned landings on Friday (Nov. 13) during the Starship Flight 15 test.
On this day in space! Nov. 14, 1969: NASA's Apollo 12 astronauts launch to the moon on a 'pinpoint landing' lunar mission
14 November 2026

On Nov. 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 astronauts launched to the moon. Here's why it mattered.
'Now everything changes': SpaceX catches Starship upper stage for 1st time ever (video)
14 November 2026

SpaceX caught the upper stage of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever today (Nov. 14), a landmark achievement that could unlock the giant vehicle's immense potential.

Hera closes in on the asteroid DART impacted
09 November 2026

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Hera spacecraft has returned its first close-up view of the Didymos asteroid system, marking the beginning of an ‘asteroid autopsy’ to discover what NASA’s DART impact really did to the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022.
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.