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NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying through the Sun's corona during its record-breaking perihelion approach

Seven Years Into the Sun: Parker Solar Probe Rewrote Space Physics But Its Central Question Remains Unanswered

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed 27 passes through the Sun's corona, survived a record-breaking 6.1 million kilometre perihelion, and fundamentally changed solar physics. The one thing it hasn't done is answer

June 6, 2026

by Kiranpreet Kaur

International Space Station photographed from SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour in orbit above Earth

ISS Astronauts Ordered Into Spacesuits as Air Leak Doubles on Russian Module

NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station into their SpaceX Crew Dragon on Friday as a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module doubled its rate — then stood them down two hours later when Roscosmos

June 5, 2026

by Technology Desk

NIST physicist Stephan Schlamminger examines the torsion balance used to measure the gravitational constant Big G

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

For three and a half centuries, the number that governs how every apple falls and every

A super Blue Moon rises over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on August 30, 2023

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

A rare calendar Blue Moon, the second full moon of May 2026, will rise on May

NASA LAGEOS-1 satellite carrying Carl Sagan designed plaque in Earth orbit

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

On May 4, 1976, a polished brass and aluminum sphere lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, slipped past the boundary where the sky turns black, and settled into an

May 24, 2026

Astronomy·Science

China Chang'e 7 lunar lander rendering at the Moon's south pole ahead of 2026 mission

China Moves Two Steps Ahead of the United States in the New Race to Build a Moon Base

China is pulling ahead of the United States in the contest to plant the first permanent human foothold on the Moon, and the gap, according to one of the most candid assessments

May 21, 2026

Astronomy·News

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking with International Space Station during NASA CRS-34 mission

NASA and SpaceX CRS-34 Mission Delivers 6,500 Pounds of Science Cargo to ISS as Dragon Enters Precision Docking Phase

The International Space Station (ISS) has received another critical injection of scientific capability as NASA and SpaceX completed the latest phase of the CRS-34 mission, a cargo flight carrying approximately 6,500 pounds

May 17, 2026

Astronomy·News

Gravitational lensing revealing a distant early universe galaxy magnified by a galaxy cluster

JWST Detects 13-Billion-Light-Year-Old “Cosmic Fossil” Galaxy Forged 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered another destabilizing glimpse into the Universe’s formative era. Astronomers have identified an ultra-faint galaxy known as LAP1-B, observed at a time when the cosmos was

May 14, 2026

Astronomy·News

NASA Mars helicopter rotor blade undergoing Mach 1 supersonic testing inside a simulated Martian atmosphere chamber

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

NASA has entered a rare engineering frontier where theoretical aerodynamics collides with planetary survival constraints: rotor blades spinning faster than the speed of sound inside a simulated Martian atmosphere, and still holding

May 8, 2026

Astronomy·News

Thousands of newly discovered exoplanets orbiting distant stars detected by NASA TESS

Scientists Uncover 10,000 “Impossible” Exoplanets That Could Rewrite the Map of the Universe

The cosmos, it turns out, may be far more crowded than astronomers ever dared to imagine. In a sweeping breakthrough that leans heavily on artificial intelligence, scientists have identified more than 10,000

May 3, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Astronomy·News

Flower Moon rising on May 1, 2026 over spring landscape with Scorpio constellation in night sky

Flower Moon May 1, 2026, Rare Scorpio Micromoon Signals Unusual Double Full Moon Month

The night sky on May 1, 2026, delivers an astronomical configuration that is at once ordinary in appearance and unusual in structure. The full Moon, traditionally known as the Flower Moon, rises

May 1, 2026

Astronomy·News

NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope fully assembled before launch

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed: A Ruthless New Eye Set to Rewrite the Universe

The machinery is finished. The ambition is staggering. And the implications could be existential for modern cosmology. NASA has confirmed that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its next flagship observatory, is

April 22, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA Artemis III SLS core stage being transported on Pegasus barge toward Kennedy Space Center

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Mega Rocket Core Stage in Major Leap Toward 2027 Moon Mission

NASA has moved the most structurally critical component of its next lunar rocket into active flight preparation, transferring the Artemis III Space Launch System (SLS) core stage from the Michoud Assembly Facility

April 21, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA Curiosity rover studying ancient rock in Gale Crater on Mars

Curiosity Rover Detects Complex Organic Molecules on Mars in Breakthrough Experiment That Reignites the Search for Ancient Life

Gale Crater, Mars — A routine drilling operation by NASA’s Curiosity rover has escalated into one of the most consequential scientific developments in recent planetary exploration, revealing an unexpectedly diverse suite of

April 21, 2026

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Seven Years Into the Sun: Parker Solar Probe Rewrote Space Physics But Its Central Question Remains Unanswered

ISS Astronauts Ordered Into Spacesuits as Air Leak Doubles on Russian Module

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

China Moves Two Steps Ahead of the United States in the New Race to Build a Moon Base

NASA and SpaceX CRS-34 Mission Delivers 6,500 Pounds of Science Cargo to ISS as Dragon Enters Precision Docking Phase

JWST Detects 13-Billion-Light-Year-Old “Cosmic Fossil” Galaxy Forged 800 Million Years After the Big Bang

NASA Pushes Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Beyond Mach 1 in a Breakthrough That Rewrites Aerial Flight on Mars

Scientists Uncover 10,000 “Impossible” Exoplanets That Could Rewrite the Map of the Universe

Flower Moon May 1, 2026, Rare Scorpio Micromoon Signals Unusual Double Full Moon Month

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed: A Ruthless New Eye Set to Rewrite the Universe

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Mega Rocket Core Stage in Major Leap Toward 2027 Moon Mission

Curiosity Rover Detects Complex Organic Molecules on Mars in Breakthrough Experiment That Reignites the Search for Ancient Life

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