1+ hour, 44+ min ago   (679+ words) A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that…...

4+ hour, 37+ min ago   (410+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Some shadowed areas of the lunar South Pole could keep microbes from Earth alive, despite an environment considered extremely hostile. This possibility emerges from a study conducted by researchers from NASA and the University…...

37+ min ago   (277+ words) The camera-on-a-chip changed the way we view the world But the history of the CMOS can be traced back to NASA’s desire to install small, low-powered cameras capable of capturing high-resolution imagery on interplanetary spacecraft. CMOS image sensors improved further…...

4+ day, 23+ min ago   (1540+ words) Holding a piece of the Moon sounds like something reserved for astronauts, yet one small museum in western Maine lets visitors get surprisingly close to that experience. Inside the two-floor building, colorful tourmaline glows beneath display lights while pull-out drawers…...

5+ hour ago   (265+ words) Sun, Sep 13, 2026 Greece is preparing to send it's first citizen into space. A new agreement with Vast puts that milestone on a planned 2027 mission to the International Space Station. At the center of it is Dr. Adrianos Golemis, an ESA…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (473+ words) Investors looking for exposure to SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) and the fast-growing commercial space industry can turn to exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Notably, SpaceX continues to expand its leadership in satellite internet, launch services, and emerging orbital technologies. Three months after the…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago   (245+ words) Generate an API key to access the KeepTrack API with higher rate limits (2,000 req/hr vs 60 free). Tesla confirms October 1 Roadster reveal near SpaceX's McGregor test site. Starlink holds at 11,118 operational with 10 conjunction alerts tracked. Ten Starlink-involved conjunctions appear in…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (362+ words) Generate an API key to access the KeepTrack API with higher rate limits (2,000 req/hr vs 60 free). PARUS-T1 is Tunisia's first orbital satellite, a 4 kg 3U CubeSat built by student group PYRAS and launched on Falcon 9 Transporter-12 from Vandenberg in January…...

4+ hour, 26+ min ago   (290+ words) More than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in the Milky Way, including terrestrial worlds that may be composed mainly of rock and metal. The NASA Exoplanet Archive listed 6,366 confirmed planets as of September 11, 2026, along with thousands of additional candidates awaiting verification....

14+ hour, 8+ min ago   (219+ words) Technetbook DwarfLab Launches Draco Smart Telescope with Rotating Sensor Capturing deep sky objects usually requires a bulky equatorial mount to stop stars from trailing across long exposures. DwarfLab solves this problem inside the camera body itself. The sensor physically twists…...