Month: September 2026
NASA Is Launching a $4 Billion Space Telescope on Sunday. Here’s Why You Should Care
Roman is designed to capture enormous areas of the universe quickly and precisely—and gaze upon things we've never...
SpaceX’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Spaceport Could Be an Environmental Disaster
Wildlife advocacy groups are standing up against proposed waivers to federal regulations intended to expedite development.
A Nearly Total Lunar Eclipse Will Turn the Moon Blood Red Tonight. Here’s How to See It
The deep partial eclipse will see 96% of the Moon cloaked in Earth's dark shadow.
NASA Researchers Want to Literally Blot Out Starlight to Hunt for Earth-Like Exoplanets
A team at NASA and Caltech wants to launch a giant, flower-shaped “starshade” to better view distant planets...
Trump Wants 1,000 Rocket Launches Per Year, More Than 5 Times Today’s Rate
A new memo seeks to drastically ramp up space activity by 2030.
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Best Evidence for Dark Matter Yet
If not, at the very least an extremely strange cosmic phenomenon.
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable
MIT researchers recreated a Venus-like stew of 98% sulfuric acid to test complex signaling molecules, like peptides, in...
Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time, Comes Home Early
SpaceX's megarocket achieved its first orbital flight but did not complete six trips around the planet as planned.
The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They’re One of Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries in Decades
A new type of object found in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for years, but they may...
Starship Is About to Attempt Something It’s Never Done in 13 Flights
More than a decade of work has all led up to this moment, with Starship's fourteenth mission scheduled...
