Space
Roman Space Telescope first images came from a 300 megapixel camera
Roman Space Telescope first images arrived after NASA powered up the 300 megapixel Wide Field Instrument, a million miles out and partway through 90 ...
Thirteen Starship flights, zero orbits. Monday is the one that counts.
Starship Flight 14 lifts off no earlier than Monday 28 September, aiming for orbital insertion for the first time and carrying 26 Starlink V3 ...
XRISM Reveals Black Hole Winds Are 100 Times More Powerful Than Expected
Japan's XRISM X-ray satellite found that winds from the quasar H1821+643 carry 100 times more energy than previous estimates, spreading turbulence ...
A single burn went so well that NASA's newest telescope gained 12 extra years
The Roman Space Telescope used 40 pounds of fuel against a 441 pound budget. NASA says the savings extend the mission from 10 years of observing to at ...
Roman Space Telescope Has Enough Fuel for 22 Years, Double What NASA Planned
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched with enough fuel to operate for 22 years, double the original mission estimate, and it's also the first NASA ...
SpaceX Sets 22 September Launch Date for Starship's First Orbital Flight
SpaceX has named 22 September as the date Starship will attempt its first full orbital flight, the biggest single test in the rocket's decade-long ...
US Military Confirms It Has Placed Weapons in Earth's Orbit
The US military has officially confirmed it has placed weapon systems in Earth's orbit, a milestone that shifts space from a surveillance domain to ...
Rocket Lab Is Furious About NASA's Mars Mission Decision
Rocket Lab has gone public with its frustration over a NASA Mars mission decision, a bold move for a company that still needs the space agency as a ...
Boutique Launch Is Thriving: The Satellite Companies That Won't Ride-Share
Despite SpaceX's rideshare programme making cheap group launches widely available, a significant chunk of the satellite industry keeps paying the ...
The Exploration Company Just Raised 450 Million Dollars to Take On SpaceX
The Exploration Company, a Munich-based spacecraft startup, has raised 450 million dollars in what it calls the largest-ever Series C by a European ...
Isar Aerospace Puts Europe's First Fully Commercial Rocket Into Orbit
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Andoya on 5 September 2026, the first orbital launch from Western European soil, 18 months after ...
Isar Aerospace Makes History as Europe's First Commercial Orbital Rocket Reaches Space
A German startup just did something no European commercial company had ever managed before: put a rocket into orbit. Isar Aerospace's Spectrum vehicle ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Built to Find 100,000 Planets
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on 30 August and is built for width, not depth. Here is what it does that Webb cannot, and why that ...
NASA Is Redesigning the Artemis IV Lunar Spacesuit Because the Timeline Is Slipping
NASA is redesigning the spacesuit intended for the Artemis IV lunar landing because the agency has concerns about delivering the original design on ...
Europe's Ariane 62 Just Launched a Satellite That Watches Storms Form in Real Time
ESA and EUMETSAT's MTG-I2 weather satellite reached orbit on Ariane 62 in the week of 23 to 30 August 2026, adding faster storm detection to Europe's ...
Something Under Mars South Pole Is 400 Degrees Hotter Than It Should Be
The Mars thermal anomaly under the south pole runs up to 400C hotter than the north, and it was found by re-reading gravity data three orbiters ...
China's ZhuQue-3 Just Landed a Rocket on Legs, and Reusability Stopped Being SpaceX's Trick
LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 landed on deployable legs on 19 August 2026, the first Chinese-built rocket to pull off a leg landing.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Finally in Space
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has finally launched and is heading one million miles from Earth to study dark matter and dark energy. With a ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Finally in Space
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched and is heading on a three-month, one-million-mile journey to join Webb at the L2 Lagrange point ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Finally in the Sky
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully on 30 August, beginning a million-mile journey to its orbit alongside the James Webb. With ...
A 96 Percent Lunar Eclipse Happens Early Friday
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse puts 96 percent of the Moon in Earth shadow. Here are the times, where it is visible, and what you need to ...
The Roman Space Telescope Launches Sunday and It Sees 100 Times More Sky Than Hubble
The Roman Space Telescope launch date is 30 August 2026. Same 2.4-metre mirror as Hubble, but it captures at least 100 times more sky per exposure.
SpaceX Starship's Eighth Integrated Flight Test Achieved Full Reuse for the First Time
SpaceX has been methodical about Starship in a way that can make individual milestones feel incremental until you step back and look at what has ...
The Sharpest Image of the Sun Ever Taken Resolves Detail the Size of a City
The Inouye Solar Telescope has taken the sharpest visible light image of the Sun ever, resolving city sized detail and confirming a long predicted ...
JWST Discovers a "Black Hole Star" From the Dawn of the Universe
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star but is powered by a ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches August 30, Eight Months Ahead of Schedule
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30 on a Falcon Heavy, carrying a 300-megapixel sensor that covers 100 times more sky than Hubble per ...
The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight Under the Darkest Sky in Years
The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight August 12-13 with up to 100 meteors per hour and zero moonlight, the best conditions since 2018.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches in 20 Days, and It Will See 100 Times More Sky Than Hubble
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30 on a Falcon Heavy, carrying a Hubble-sized mirror that sees 100 times more sky to map dark energy and ...
Tesla and SpaceX Break Ground on Terafab, a 16.8 Billion Dollar Texas Chip Plant
Tesla and SpaceX are building Terafab, a 16.8bn dollar Texas chip factory to feed their own AI, robotics and space compute. Here is what it means.
How to watch the Perseid meteor shower 2026: peak night, times and kit
The Perseid meteor shower 2026 peaks overnight on 13 August under a new moon. When to look, where to stand, and the simple kit that helps you see ...
A robot just ran a marathon on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has now driven 26.2 miles across Jezero Crater, the exact distance of a marathon, one careful metre at a time.
Space News: Launches, Missions, and Discoveries
Space news covering rocket launches, NASA missions, SpaceX Starship, exoplanet discoveries, and the commercial space economy. Plain-English coverage ...
SpaceX Successfully Tests Starship's Reusable Heat Shield for Long-Duration Reentry
One of the least glamorous but most technically demanding challenges in reusable rocketry is the heat shield.
SpaceX's Starship Flight Nine Raised the Bar. Flight Ten Needs to Clear It.
SpaceX's Starship development programme has been moving faster than almost any rocket programme in history, and the tempo only seems to be increasing.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 Stuck the Landing and Here Is Why the Details Matter
SpaceX has successfully landed both stages of Starship on its ninth integrated flight test, and if you have been watching this programme closely, you ...
70 Countries Have Now Signed the Artemis Accords
On 17 July 2026, Mauritius became the 70th country to sign the Artemis Accords, NASA's framework for how nations should behave in space ...
On 10 July 2026, China's new Long March 10B rocket lifted off and, a few minutes later, did something no Chinese rocket had done before: it flew its first.
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 ...
An Earth-Sized World Sits in Its Star's Habitable Zone, 25 Light-Years Away
A paper published on 1 July 2026 confirmed GJ 3378b, a planet roughly twice Earth's diameter, orbiting inside the habitable zone of its host star, a ...
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft technically finished its primary job years ago.
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already delivered a sample of asteroid Ryugu to Earth, completed a flyby of near-Earth asteroid Torifune this ...
India's First Private Rocket Just Made It to Orbit
Something significant happened in the skies over India this week, and it deserves more attention than it's getting.
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 satellites have launched with a single job: detecting wildfires faster than any ground-based system can.
SpaceX Scrubs Starship Flight 13 Twice in 24 Hours
SpaceX has had a frustrating week at Boca Chica. The company attempted to launch Starship's 13th integrated flight test and was forced to abort the.
SpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship's 13th Test Flight This Week
SpaceX is preparing to launch Starship on its 13th test flight later this week, and honestly, the pace at which this programme has accelerated is ...
Intel and Musk's Terafab Is Now a $119 Billion Bet on Texas
Terafab, the Intel, Tesla and SpaceX chip factory, could cost up to $119 billion. Here is what the Texas mega-fab means for the global chip supply ...
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.
Reed Jobs Is Building a Cancer Moonshot and Doesn't Want Your Sympathy
Reed Jobs, the 33-year-old son of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell Jobs, does not particularly want to be introduced by his surname. That is ...
Venus Aerospace Raises 90 Million Dollars to Build a New Kind of Rocket Engine
Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based hypersonic propulsion startup, has raised a 90 million dollar Series B funding round to continue development of its.
NASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory has been one of NASA's most productive space telescopes since its launch in 2004.
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 ...
SpaceX Has Now Launched 1,000 Rockets. Here Is What That Number Actually Means.
SpaceX has reached 1,000 rocket launches, a milestone so large it requires a moment to actually absorb.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to Launch Mars Mission in 2028
NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028.