Research, rockets, and discoveries beyond the fence line.
Subscribe to the Science feedThe Henry Ford says a touring LEGO-and-NASA exhibit opens October 18, 2026—but the show's educational claims rest entirely on the museum's own promotional materials.
Isar Aerospace reportedly hit orbit, Amazon says it's doubling down on Ariane 6, and US firms reportedly skipped Macron's summit under White House pressure.
Monaco-based Venturi Space says it has revealed a compact tracked rover concept at a Paris summit, but no flight deal backs the pitch.
The White House signed a bold new space launch policy, but experts and officials are asking the same thing: where in tarnation is the money?
Stoke Space says it closed roughly a billion dollars and unveiled a larger rocket it describes as beating Falcon 9 on payload — but this yarn belongs on the space-science desk, not here.
Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-69 mission was NASA's 100th crewed spaceflight, and the crew had dog nicknames — yes, really.
ArianeGroup CEO Christophe Bruneau says the company is studying a launch-rate ramp-up, but no commitment has been made and solid-propellant supply is a sticking point.
A peer-reviewed Nature study says Mars's southern interior runs 200–400°C hotter than the north and may be partially molten — and nobody knows why.
ISRO says its first-ever geosynchronous imaging satellite lifted off September 4, 2026, but the bird still has to drive itself the rest of the way home.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher says Europe is weighing faster launch cadences, but no decision has been made and the 2030 crunch remains a projection.
The $4.3 billion Roman observatory lifted off August 30, 2026, but science data won't arrive until early 2027, so hold your horses.
ESA's director general is talking about higher launch cadences for Ariane 6 and Vega-C, but the agency says no decisions have landed yet.
ESA's director general says a satellite demand spike around 2030 could swamp available launch capacity, and a cadence ramp-up is being studied — but nothing is decided.
York Space Systems says it has unveiled a platform for very low Earth orbit — but those claims are unverified. Meanwhile, the broader VLEO race is undeniably real.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off August 30, 2026 — nine months early and under budget — after Congress blocked four White House bids to gut or kill it.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rode a Falcon Heavy off the pad on August 30, 2026 — but Lord, did Congress have to wrestle Washington to let it happen.
NASA's Roman telescope rode a Falcon Heavy into orbit today — and its mirror, NASA confirms, used to belong to a Cold War spy program.
The $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off August 30, 2026, surviving four White House cancellation bids to become astronomy's widest-eyed survey machine.
NASA says Roman is officially 'go for launch' for August 30, but weather and late gremlins could still spoil the party.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope was scheduled to ride a Falcon Heavy on August 30, 2026 — but as of press time, confirmed liftoff success is still pending.
SpaceX VP Kiko Dontchev says Falcon 9 won't fly Starlink from Florida again; Starship is supposed to take over, but that timeline is murkier than swamp water.
Folks are buzzing that the 29-year-old sentinel at L1 could hand off its space-weather duties to IMAP and SOLAR-1 before its tank runs dry around 2028.
NASA named its Artemis III crew and is stacking hardware fast, but whether SpaceX and Blue Origin can keep pace is very much an open question.
Tropical Storm Narra chased China's boldest robotic moon mission off the launchpad, and Chinese authorities say the window for this year is shut.
The US now accounts for roughly 61% of global orbital launches, and the environmental tab from SpaceX's Starbase may be bigger than the FAA is letting on.
Rocket Lab says it just flew its ninth iQPS mission; analysts wonder if Electron has quietly become Japan's favorite radar-satellite taxi.
Twenty-eight years ago, the Philippines strapped its first homegrown satellite onto a Chinese rocket — and the chatter says that one wild ride started something lasting.
Artemis II already flew, and now the Roman Space Telescope and Crew-13 are queued up — but whether 2026 tops 109 launches is anybody's guess.
Two Falcon 9s, 38 minutes apart, one classified payload — and Globalstar says the satellites may affect an $11.6B Amazon deal.
Artemis II pulled off a genuine moonshot, but Blue Origin's New Glenn blew itself to kingdom come — and the company claims it can somehow be back flying before 2027.
WorldView-3 turns 12 today, and the chatter is that its six-satellite Legion successor may be taking over the neighborhood watch.
SpaceX hit 90 Falcon 9 flights by August 4, with three West Coast launches in seven days and a Starlink constellation now said to top 10,800 satellites.
A Falcon 9 hauled 29 more Starlink birds to orbit on August 11, trackers say, pushing the mega-constellation to numbers that depend heavily on who's counting.
Chatter and confirmed data suggest the Roman Space Telescope's Falcon Heavy liftoff could crown a remarkably packed month of launches on the Space Coast.
Third-party trackers suggest Starlink's fleet has blown past 10,800 active birds, and SpaceX claims even bigger things are coming via Starship.
Vermeer and Interlune claim they're building lunar excavators for helium-3 mining and NASA Moon Base work — but the timeline is still muddier than a Mississippi bottomland.
ALL.SPACE says its new Hydra MAX terminal is a multi-orbit, full-duplex beast. Those are the company's words, and so far nobody else has kicked the tires.
Fifteen years after launch, Juno's scientific haul is jaw-dropping — but whether the plucky spacecraft survived past September 2025 is, Lord help us, still anybody's guess.
SpaceX confirmed the launch of BlueBirds 11–13, but AST SpaceMobile says commercial service has slipped to early 2027, partly due to a Blue Origin mishap.
German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg says it found a vehicle issue during pressure testing, forcing a de-stack at SaxaVord — and the August 10 window ain't waiting.
SpaceX keeps stuffing satellites up yonder like a hoarder filling a barn, and astronomers say the view is getting real ugly.
A Florida congressman and gubernatorial hopeful is pushing legislation to drag NASA's HQ south — but the bill hasn't cleared committee, and Ohio is already hollering back.
A Falcon 9 roared off into the Florida dark carrying a classified NRO payload — but what exactly hitched that ride remains Uncle Sam's little secret.
Rocket City Space Fest wrapped its inaugural run July 16–24, 2026, capped by what festival organizers claim was one of the biggest drone shows in Alabama history.
The physics of orbital mechanics, safety, and propulsion explain launch site placement better than history does, though some figures are still debated.
Thirty seconds after liftoff on July 23, 2026, lightning struck the Long March 3B, yet the rocket still delivered its Tianlian II-06 satellite, multiple outlets report.
After four Raptor engines quit at T-0 on July 16, SpaceX says it's swinging again on July 23 — and the stakes, according to multiple reports, couldn't be much higher.
The Pentagon confirmed the dollar figure and the launchpad, but stayed quiet on the rocket and the payload — leaving analysts to connect the dots.
The Space Force reportedly tripled its Lane 1 launch ceiling to $17 billion, and analysts say the combined program could approach $30 billion — though those are ceilings, not guarantees.
Skyroot Aerospace claims its Vikram-1 lifted off July 18, 2026, putting India in rare company as only the third nation with private orbital launch capability.
Two big NASA missions are reportedly bearing down on the launch pad within weeks of each other — if Florida weather and hardware cooperate.
SpaceX has a 90-minute window tonight to launch Starship Flight 13 — outcome unknown, booster fixes claimed, and the first functional Starlink V3 satellites riding along.
Three commercial launches in eight days at Cape Canaveral signal a serious traffic jam up there — and Starlink may have company sooner than folks thought.
Soyuz MS-29 hauled a mixed US-Russian crew to the ISS, but reporters say Isaacman's rare Baikonur appearance is the real head-scratcher worth watching.
ESA's Euclid telescope reportedly uncovered 31 record-old quasars, two blazing when the cosmos was barely 5% its current age — and scientists say they have no good explanation.
SpaceX's constellation now claims roughly 75% of active maneuverable satellites in orbit, and scientists warn the sky may never look the same.
Booster B1071 landed safely after its 35th flight, hauling 29 Starlinks to orbit — but the fleet reuse record of 36 already belongs to B1067.
Booster 1067 just set a SpaceX reuse record with its 36th flight — and it's now only three missions shy of matching NASA's all-time mark.
NASA says its Roman telescope landed in Florida eight months early, targeting an August 30 SpaceX Falcon Heavy ride to L2.
A Cranfield University spin-out says it flew a miniaturized biotech platform to orbit — but the longevity-lab framing is murkier than a catfish pond at midnight.
A two-year-old London startup says microgravity beats Earth labs at shaping protein drugs — but independent verification of that bold claim remains as distant as low-Earth orbit.
A commercial robot called LINK launched July 3 to grab a sinking space telescope, the company says — but the tricky docking and boost haven't happened yet.
Six big mystery balls turned up on Australian beaches, and authorities reckon they might be rocket leftovers — but nobody's pinned down where they came from.
Six chrome-like metal spheres washed ashore near Forrest Beach, and one expert suspects toxic rocket fuel vessels — but nobody's officially confirmed squat yet.
LINK launched July 3, but the hard part — grabbing a satellite never built to be grabbed — hasn't happened yet.
LINK is up, but the grapple hasn't happened. Here's what we know about the most ambitious orbital rescue since, well, ever.
The LINK spacecraft launched July 3, but Katalyst Space Technologies' robot hasn't grabbed anything yet — and this has never been done before.
A startup called Katalyst Space Technologies says it can robotically grab a falling NASA telescope before it burns up. The rocket hasn't left the ground yet.
A startup's spacecraft could grapple a sinking observatory before October's point of no return — but the launch hasn't happened yet.
Administrator Jared Isaacman held a briefing today pitching lunar outpost plans, NASA claims. Independent experts say the timeline is a tall order.
A Falcon 9 carried SiriusXM's SXM-11 to orbit on June 28, 2026—the third step in a fleet-renewal push SiriusXM says will juice North American audio coverage for decades.
SpaceX launched SiriusXM's SXM-11 satellite on June 28, 2026 — but this is a space-science tale, not a cyber-internet one.
A Falcon 9 is reportedly poised to haul the SXM-11 satellite toward orbit late June 28 — but the rocket hadn't left the ground when we checked.
New Glenn NG-4 exploded on the pad May 28, 2026, wrecking Blue Origin's only orbital launch site and rattling NASA moon plans.
An Arizona startup's three-armed robot, the company says, is set to attempt the first-ever commercial capture of a science satellite never built to be grabbed.
The California Science Center gave press a first look at Endeavour in full vertical launch config — and a public opening is penciled in for November 13, 2026.
Officials say the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens November 13, 2026, with Endeavour standing 20 stories tall in full launch configuration.
The California Science Center says its Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens November 13, 2026, promising the world's only complete, upright shuttle stack.
A flat, flying-saucer-shaped SpaceX capsule lifted off June 23, 2026 — and almost everything known about it came from government paperwork, not the company.
Three ESA launcher-challenge contenders have updated their maiden-flight plans, the companies say, but schedules keep slipping and nearly €140M in funding is still in limbo.
One financial commentary outlet says rocket-launch backyard dreams could drain fixed-income portfolios if retirees chase oceanfront views over sound coastal math.
Five astronauts briefly suited up and sheltered in a docked Dragon after the Zvezda leak reportedly doubled. The second crack remains unpatched and engineers are still figuring things out.
Instinct Space says it pivoted to rideshare-compatible lunar landers promising $550K per kg — but the four-person shop has no flights yet.
Instinct Space says it has pivoted from lunar GPS to low-cost landers, but every number comes straight from the company itself.
Instinct Space says its small lander needs no staging or refueling and could reach the Moon from any orbit — but the company has shown no hardware yet.
The Space Force picked Blue Origin for SLC-14, according to Spaceflight Now, but the site has zero infrastructure and New Glenn just blew up.
SpaceX shares climbed about 19 percent on their first public trading day, according to AP, Axios, and The Guardian, giving the rocket company a market value near $2.1 trillion.