NASA’s MAX POWER aerospace expo: Check out these exciting events on November 7-8
The two-day event at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center offers a thrilling experience, from a stunning air show and a much-awaited Moon Base update to a glimpse into NASA's innovative X-59 aircraft.
Updated: 14 hours ago | By Lakshmi Kola
ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ is waking up: MetOp-SG-B1 weather satellite prepares for Ariane 6 launch
ESA's MetOp Second Generation-B1 satellite has reached Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and is being prepared for launch later this year.
Updated: 1 day ago | By Lakshmi Kola
All about PHOENIX—a proposed super telescope that could observe planet formation and early universe
A proposed super telescope called PHOENIX is still at a conceptual stage, with its proposers receiving funding from NASA to develop it further.
Updated: 1 day ago | By Pranjal Pranit
NASA's Swift telescope set to reenter Earth today—chances of you getting hit by it is under one in a trillion
The Swift telescope is predicted to re-enter Earth at approximately 3:30 am EST on November 4, with an uncertainty of 11 hours.
Updated: 2 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA’s falling Swift telescope could make a fiery return to Earth this week—where could it crash?
Launched in 2004, Swift was a tool for studying the most powerful to study gamma-ray bursts—the most powerful explosions in the universe. However, a deteriorating orbit and a failed rescue mission means that the telescope's life is at an end.
Updated: 4 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA considers potential servicing of Hubble Telescope to extend its lifespan, asks industry for help
NASA is seeking ideas to either boost the Hubble Telescope’s orbit, improve its performance or dispose of the observatory in a safe manner.
Updated: 7 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Voyager 1 comes back online after mystery glitch in interstellar space; NASA expects more surprises
Voyager 1, which has traveled farther than any other man-made object, experienced a loss of communication on October 18 and 19 after the mission team had completed a months-long operation to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply.
Updated: 7 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Meet UVEX—NASA’s proposed new space telescope set to launch in January 2031
UVEX, coupled with observatories like the Roman Space Telescope, will help us paint a multi-wavelength image of the universe.
Updated: Oct 28, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ceases operations: Here's the legacy it left behind
NASA's "first responder" to transient cosmic events recorded its final observation on October 20. It will fall to its fiery demise in the coming weeks.
Updated: Oct 26, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
NASA's Anil Menon gives a glimpse of new solar arrays to be installed on ISS during upcoming spacewalks
Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk will perform the first spacewalk on October 29 to install a new pair of solar arrays. A second spacewalk is planned for November 5.
Updated: Oct 26, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA's 'fully functional' Nancy Grace Roman Telescope moves closer to releasing first images
The Roman telescope, launched on August 30, is exceeding expectations and quelling worries as it moves closer to releasing its first images.
Updated: Oct 23, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
C/2026 S1: ESA’s Euclid telescope unexpectedly discovers its first comet 807 million miles away
Dark matter-hunting observatory Euclid unexpectedly found this previously unknown comet while doing a dark energy survey.
Updated: Oct 20, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
NASA's MEGANE instrument will act as 'eyeglasses' to study Phobos in JAXA's MMX mission
The origins of Mars' moons remain unclear. Could NASA's MEGANE instrument on JAXA's MMX spacecraft finally reveal whether Phobos is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact?
Updated: Oct 16, 2026 | By Purva Muley
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope named one of the best inventions of 2026 by TIME
This accomplishment is monumental as the telescope is currently in its commissioning phase and hasn’t even begun its operations.
Updated: Oct 16, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA's Roman Space Telescope's primary camera beats its image-quality target by nearly 30%
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is currently about a million miles from Earth, recently went through a series of tests and calibrations.
Updated: Oct 15, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has a huge role to play in collecting samples from Martian moon Phobos
Blue Origin's tool might help reveal the origins of the two Martian moons which have been shrouded in mystery.
Updated: Oct 15, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks off-world driving record after covering over 28 miles on Mars
On October 11, Perseverance broke the off-world driving distance record set by NASA's Opportunity rover, which operated on Mars from 2004 to 2018.
Updated: Oct 13, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
All about LISA: NASA and ESA’s million-mile telescope that will detect invisible ripples in space-time
The LISA mission will include three telescope-equipped spacecraft that will be deployed more than a million miles apart from each other. Together these spacecraft will help scientists detect gravitational waves that aren't possible to detect from Earth.
Updated: Oct 12, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA’s Curiosity rover captures clearest images of mysterious Martian cliffs: See pictures
The Martian images show mysterious formations called yardangs, whose origins are unknown.
Updated: Oct 7, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
NASA’s Roman Telescope Coronagraph opens its eyes to the cosmos, taking its first images
The Coronagraph made its first observation on September 22 and followed it up with another one on September 27.
Published: Oct 1, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola