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“Caught a fireball on dashcam tonight while driving north towards the Portsmouth Traffic Circle! It was visible for…
12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025
2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few…
Meet the Solar System’s Real Highest Peak
At the western edge of Mars’s equatorial highlands, an enormous geological structure rises far above the planet’s thin…
Algeria’s Desert Rocks Might Be the Key to Finding Life on Mars
A groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences suggests that a remote rock quarry in…
Astronomers Stumble on Hidden Solar System Structure That Shouldn’t Exist
Led by Amir Siraj, a doctoral student in astrophysics at Princeton University, the study reveals a tightly bound…
A Water Reservoir Big Enough to Fill Trillions of Earth Oceans Discovered Orbiting a Black Hole
In a remote sector of deep space, researchers have identified something unexpected — a signature that hints at…
Why 2026 could be another dazzling year for the Northern Lights
On 11 November, a large solar flare measuring X5.1 – on a scale that runs from X1 to…
Exotic spaceplanes that failed to take off
With their thrilling sci-fi aesthetics, spaceplanes are an attractive alternative to rockets. They are attractive in practical ways,…
China’s LandSpace gears up to take on Elon Musk and SpaceX
LandSpace is trying to become China’s SpaceX LandSpace became the first in China to test a reusable rocket…
ESA Cancels Call to Procure Commercial Cargo Services to the ISS
Credit: NASA / ESA / T. Pesquet The European Space Agency has cancelled a call for proposals to…