Space

LHS 1140 b: First Confirmed Atmosphere on a Rocky Habitable-Zone World

Astronomers confirm the first atmosphere on a rocky planet in a habitable zone: LHS 1140 b, revealed by helium leaking into space, 49 light years away.

4 August 2026

SpaceX Successfully Tests Starship's Reusable Heat Shield for Long-Duration Reentry

SpaceX has run a long-duration reentry test on Starship's hexagonal ceramic heat shield, reporting minimal tile loss compared to earlier flights. The test is pa

4 August 2026

SpaceX's Starship Flight Nine Raised the Bar. Flight Ten Needs to Clear It.

SpaceX's Starship Flight Nine deployed Starlink satellites from orbit and caught the Super Heavy booster for the second time using the Mechazilla arms. Flight T

29 July 2026

SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 Stuck the Landing and Here Is Why the Details Matter

SpaceX landed both stages of Starship for the first time on Flight 9, catching the Super Heavy booster at Starbase and bringing the upper stage down in a contro

25 July 2026

Dark Matter Might Come in Two Flavours, Not One

A new theoretical model argues dark matter is at least two particles, not one, that collide with each other and could explain diffuse dwarf galaxies and dense l

23 July 2026

NVIDIA's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Looks Like in Practice

Three new satellites are now in orbit with one specific job: helping detect and track wildfires faster than existing infrastructure can manage. The key is on-bo

23 July 2026

Dark Matter May Come in Two Particle Types, Not One

A new model says dark matter could be two kinds of particle that slowly drift apart inside galaxies, and it may explain several stubborn cosmic puzzles at once.

22 July 2026

70 Countries Have Now Signed the Artemis Accords

Mauritius became the 70th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords on 17 July 2026, extending the framework for responsible space behaviour across every inhabited

China Lands a Rocket Booster on a Net at Sea, and It Isn't a Fluke

China's Long March 10B caught its own booster on a floating net during its maiden flight on 10 July, becoming only the second country to recover an orbital-clas

An Earth-Sized World Sits in Its Star's Habitable Zone, 25 Light-Years Away

Astronomers confirmed GJ 3378b, a planet roughly twice Earth's size orbiting inside its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, in a paper publish

Japan's Hayabusa2 Flew Past a Second Asteroid on Its Extended Mission

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already delivered a sample of asteroid Ryugu to Earth, completed a flyby of near-Earth asteroid Torifune this fortnight as pa

India's First Private Rocket Just Made It to Orbit

India just hit a milestone that's been years in the making: a privately developed rocket reached orbit for the first time on its debut launch. It puts the count

Starship's 13th Flight Aborted Itself, and That's the Point of Testing

Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff on 16 July after four Super Heavy engines failed to ignite. SpaceX is targeting a retry on 23 July.

India's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Can Do

Three new Google-backed satellites have launched with one purpose: catching wildfires before they grow uncontrollable. With wildfire smoke choking parts of Nort

Magnetar Birth: A Chirping Supernova Signal Caught One Forming

A strange chirping signal from a distant supernova traced the birth of a magnetar, linking the universe's brightest explosions to its most magnetic objects.

19 July 2026

SpaceX Scrubs Starship Flight 13 Twice in 24 Hours

SpaceX tried to launch Starship's 13th flight test this week and had to abort, not once but twice, after engine ignition problems with the Raptor start sequence

17 July 2026

SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship's 13th Test Flight This Week

Starship Flight 13 is coming this week, and SpaceX is pushing further on re-entry performance and on-orbit propellant transfer, two things that are absolutely c

14 July 2026

China's Long March 10B Just Nailed a Sea Landing on Its First Flight

China's reusable Long March 10B rocket flew, dropped a satellite in orbit, and landed at sea on its debut. Here's why a first-flight recovery matters.

12 July 2026

Avi Loeb Is Now Running the White House UFO Advisory Group

The White House has appointed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the scientist who argued Oumuamua might be an alien artefact, to lead its new UAP advisory counci

12 July 2026

Venus Aerospace Raises 90 Million Dollars to Build a New Kind of Rocket Engine

Venus Aerospace has raised 90 million dollars to push its rotating detonation rocket engine closer to production, a technology that promises significantly highe

9 July 2026

Astronomers Found a Third Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter

A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models struggle to ex

6 July 2026

NASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth

NASA just pulled off an emergency reboost of the Swift Observatory, a 22-year-old gamma-ray telescope that was slowly falling out of orbit. Working with satelli

5 July 2026

Astronomers just found a habitable-zone planet 25 light-years away, and that distance is the whole story

A newly confirmed planet sits in its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, close enough for the next wave of telescopes to actually study its ai

4 July 2026

The Sun threw ten flares in 24 hours, and the aurora could reach unusually far south this weekend

A sharp spike in solar activity, ten flares in a single day, is raising aurora chances across northern latitudes for the July 4 weekend. Here is how to catch it

4 July 2026

SpaceX Has Now Launched 1,000 Rockets. Here Is What That Number Actually Means.

SpaceX has hit 1,000 rocket launches, a number that took the entire US space programme 50 years to approach across all vehicles. The milestone mostly reflects F

4 July 2026

Private Pilots Are Now Flying Orbital Missions for the US Space Force

Private space pilots are now flying actual orbital missions for the US Space Force, a significant step that blurs the line between commercial spaceflight and na

3 July 2026

Ariane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters

On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The mission also debu

NASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you

Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the Moon. Here's

The largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone

AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to deliver broad

Astrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues

Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II mission stays on

A Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago

Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published in Nature

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will survey a billio

China's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon

China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample return fro