Space

If we ever intend to send crewed missions to Mars, as NASA and China plan for the coming decades, several criteria must be met. Some of the most pressing are the...

Agency 19/09/2026 6038 views 14 likesThe European Space Agency (ESA) and The Pokémon Company International (TPCI) have launched an official collaboration to celebrate World Space Week 2026 from 4–10 October 2026.   Pokémon x ESA collaboration key art As...

Editor’s note: This feature was updated on Sept. 18, 2026, to add additional details on mission readiness dates. To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers decoded the weather on a distant exoplanet. The target in question was SIMP J0136+09 (or SIMP 0136),...

Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA will lift off...

Agency 17/09/2026 119 views 1 likesOn 16 September at its Industry Space Days 2026 event at ESA–ESTEC in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency (ESA) honoured three space companies with this year’s prestigious awards for excellence and innovation.  European industry is...

On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board.Albert III was the third monkey the U.S. attempted to launch to space. He was also the third one to be killed...

Our Sun is the very reason life exists on our small, blue planet. It provides solar radiation that warms the planet and ignites the intricate biochemical processes like photosynthesis producing oxygen...

Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment.As plants photosynthesise, they emit an incredibly faint glow called fluorescence. Invisible to our eyes, this signal can reveal how plants are using sunlight and...

Unless you’re a naked mole rat or a worm-lizard, you were never meant to live your life out underground like the poor doomsday denizens of Apple TV's "Silo."Season 3 has revealed how a trillionaire industrialist named Per Stenson (Colin...