The Moon may look like a silent, lifeless world today, but its soil contains clues to a far more dynamic past. Hidden inside tiny glass particles brought back from the lunar surface, scientists have discovered an unusual form of metallic iron that could help reconstruct the history of the Moon’s …
When astronauts look at the Moon from space, they notice things that a photograph alone might miss. Subtle colour differences, shadows inside craters and brief flashes of light can all offer clues about the Moon’s surface and its history. Now, NASA has released more than 800 gigabytes of scientific data …
Starship reached orbit for the first time. The vehicle lifted off from Starbase, Texas at 8:48 AM. EDT on its 14th test flight, the third to use the Version 3 design. About 25 minutes after liftoff, Ship 41 fired a single Raptor engine briefly to enter orbit. The stated target …
SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket has flown into space before. But on its next test, the goal is much harder: put Starship into orbit around Earth for the first time. The distinction is important. Reaching space only requires a spacecraft to climb high enough above Earth. To enter orbit, however, it …
The universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating. For more than two decades, scientists have explained this acceleration using dark energy, a mysterious component thought to make up roughly 70% of the cosmos. The simplest explanation is that dark energy is a constant property of space itself. But new observations …
What is causing the universe to expand faster and faster? Scientists have spent decades trying to answer this question, and one of NASA’s newest space observatories could provide some of the most important clues yet. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, 2026, is designed to investigate dark …
NASA and IBM have released an open AI model that could transform how humanity maps, studies, and ultimately explores the lunar surface. There is a new kind of explorer looking at the Moon. It has no eyes, no spacecraft, and no landing gear. It does not need oxygen or protection …
On the afternoon of September 6, 2026, a fragment of rock no bigger than a beach ball streaked into Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia, and quietly disintegrated. No one was hurt. No damage was done. Yet astronomers around the world were watching, because for only the …
Plants have spent hundreds of millions of years growing under one constant force: gravity. Their roots grow down, their shoots grow up, and even the smallest parts of a plant respond to Earth’s gravitational pull. But what happens when that force almost disappears? NASA got a chance to find out …
India’s GSLV-F17 successfully launches EOS-05, opening a new era of geosynchronous Earth imaging Sriharikota, September 4, 2026: At 2:55 a.m. IST, while much of India was asleep, the night sky over Sriharikota was transformed by the roar of India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F17). Lifting off from the Second Launch …
A corn seed does not need anyone to tell it which way to grow. Give it water, warmth and the right conditions, and its roots head down while its shoot pushes upward. But what happens when one of those conditions disappears? Not water or sunlight, but gravity? NASA has spent …
For almost a century, scientists have known that something is influencing the universe that we cannot see. Galaxies rotate as though they contain far more mass than their stars and gas can account for. Gravity bends light around massive objects in ways that reveal unseen matter. Whatever this invisible material …
NASA is about to send its most powerful panoramic eye on the universe into space. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is targeted to launch this Sunday, August 30, at 7:26 AM EDT, lifting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center …
There is a planet inside Earth that you cannot see. It has no surface, no atmosphere and no orbit around the Sun. In fact, it may have disappeared almost 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists call this lost world Theia. Theia is the name given to a planetary body that is …
Somewhere between now and August 31, a Chinese rocket will punch through the atmosphere carrying an orbiter, a lander, a rover, and a genuinely bizarre little robot that hops. Its destination is the most sought after places of the decade: the permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s South Pole. Welcome …
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a piece of American rocket history has been sitting silently in a Moon crater for weeks and NASA just proved it. On August 5, 2026, a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, the part of the rocket that does its job and …
When most of us hear the words black hole, we imagine an invisible object in space that sucks everything around it. People think of it as a mysterious object that no one can see or know what is inside. But if black holes themselves cannot be seen, how can astronomers …
Talk about coming out of the blue. On a summer afternoon in July 2024, people across five U.S. states looked up and saw a fireball blazing across the daytime sky. Some heard a loud sonic boom, like a jet breaking the sound barrier. Moments later, a fist-sized chunk of that …
Space may look empty and peaceful from Earth, but for the human body, it is an extreme environment. Astronauts face microgravity, isolation, disrupted sleep, and perhaps most importantly, higher exposure to space radiation. Scientists have therefore been asking a fascinating question: What happens to our DNA when we leave Earth? …
News that a NASA–SpaceX rocket stage crashed into the Moon left many people asking the same question: How can a rocket launched from Earth end up hitting the Moon? Even more puzzling, why wasn’t it brought back after completing its mission? The answer lies in a clever engineering concept called …
Stepping into space can make astronauts feel like they have received a surprise growth spurt. Within just a few days of reaching the International Space Station, many astronauts become 2 to 5 centimetres taller. It may sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is pure science. …
A small engine can sometimes power a giant dream. India has now taken one such important step. On 22 July 2026, Hyderabad based Azad Engineering Limited handed over the country’s first fully indigenous expendable turbojet engine to the Gas Turbine Research Establishment, GTRE, under the Defence Research and Development Organization, …
The night sky has always been like a giant storybook, but many of its pages remained closed until the Hubble Space Telescope opened them. For more than 35 years, Hubble has acted like a tireless explorer, travelling without moving and showing us wonders hidden billions of light years away. It …
July 26, 2026 came and went like any other day. The Sun rose, people went to work, children went to school, and nobody noticed anything unusual. Yet our planet quietly completed one full spin about 0.65 milliseconds faster than the usual 86,400 seconds, making it the shortest day of the …
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