A joint ESA and Chinese Academy of Sciences spacecraft lifted off May 18 on a Vega-C rocket. Over the next three years it will image the invisible bubble that keeps the solar wind from sterilizing Earth.
Flight 12 is the debut of the V3 vehicle, the largest Starship yet, after a seven-month pause. It will deliberately stress the parts most likely to fail.
The White House's FY2026 budget request for NASA proposes the deepest cuts to the agency in a generation, restructures Artemis around a faster lunar return, and effectively ends several long-running science missions. Here is what the numbers actually say.
Congressional hearings on UAP have become increasingly prominent since 2023. Some testimony has been credible and specific. Some has not. Separating the two requires knowing what to look for.
The Artemis Accords have grown from eight founding signatories in 2020 to more than 55 nations in 2026. The agreement is doing something more interesting than its press releases suggest: quietly establishing the legal norms for the next century of activity on the Moon.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has released two annual reports to Congress. They are worth reading carefully. They are not what either believers or skeptics want them to be.
Perseverance has been quietly filling little titanium tubes with Martian rock since 2021. The plan to fetch them back to Earth was supposed to be the most scientifically valuable robotic mission ever flown. It is now over budget by billions, behind schedule by a decade, and possibly about to lose a race to China.
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with computers less powerful than a modern thermostat. It is now in interstellar space, more than a light-day from Earth, and last year NASA engineers patched a corrupted memory chip remotely from across that distance. The probe still works.
Europa Clipper crosses the asteroid belt. Axiom Space prepares for its fourth ISS mission. The Dragonfly Titan drone passes its critical design review. China announces a second crewed lunar mission. What you need to know.
Curious people who find space fascinating but do not have aerospace engineering degrees. The reader who wants to understand why a Starship test flight matters, what Europa Clipper is actually looking for, or why fast radio bursts are so strange. Sagan-era wonder applied to the news cycle.
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