Space weekly recap, November 7 - November 13: Key stories you may have missed
It was business as usual for the private aerospace industry this week. Meanwhile, humanity took a step closer to understanding the mysteries of the dark universe.
Updated: 1 day ago | By Pranjal Pranit
ESA lays the foundation for its best-ever 3D map of the Universe, with over 900 million galaxies
“These are far more than beautiful pictures; today marks a scientific milestone in our study of the cosmos.”
Updated: 1 day ago | By Ankita Garkoti
New way to hunt exoplanets? ESA-NASA’s LISA could detect hidden worlds through gravitational waves
LISA may help detect exoplanets around binary white dwarfs, something that has never been done before.
Updated: 2 days ago | By Lakshmi Kola
SETI scientist Seth Shostak is confident 'we will find evidence for extraterrestrial life before 2035' (exclusive)
In an exclusive interview with Starlust.org, Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute shared his views on finding alien life and on the recently declassified UFO files.
Updated: 4 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Earth captures a mini-moon that will stick around until 2027—here’s all you need to know
Earth's newly captured mini-moon measures about 3 feet (1 meter) wide and it will be around 353,000 miles from our planet at its closest distance.
Updated: 1 day ago | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA announces CapeWeek, The Great American Aerospace and Technology Expo, set for 2028
This new U.S. air show and exposition is expected to eventually draw more than half a million visitors a year to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Updated: Nov 7, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Space weekly recap, October 31 - November 6: Key stories you may have missed
This past week, several new exoplanets were added to NASA's archives, while in spaceflight, several new builds progressed. Here's a wrap-up of space-related news that flew beneath the radar.
Updated: Nov 6, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
ESA releases Hera's first close-up image of Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system
Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos, was struck by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022, altering its orbit. Now, Hera has given us a close-up view of the binary asteroid system.
Updated: Nov 6, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
New evidence suggests Mars is not geologically 'dead' after all, just sleeping
The ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has found magmatic gas above a volcano on Mars. This could have huge implications for the search of life on the planet.
Updated: Nov 6, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
Did comets bring building blocks of life to Earth? New study challenges long-standing theory
The study asserts that it is very unlikely that comets brought ingredients of life to Earth because most of them would not have survived impacts with our planet.
Updated: Nov 4, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA's Hubble Telescope identifies dwarf galaxies with a missing oxygen problem—but where did it go?
37 dwarf galaxies lying within 22 million light-years of Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where the rest went.
Updated: Nov 4, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
Veiled in dust for billions of years, this ancient star cluster could be the oldest in the Milky Way
A new study claims that the VVV CL001 cluster is around 13.4 billion years old, which could make it the oldest star cluster in the Milky Way.
Updated: Nov 4, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
Astrophysicist revisits the cosmic dark ages of the Universe: 'You would have seen darkness in every direction'
The Universe didn't see light travel freely until 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Then it was plunged into a long period of darkness again. Oliver Zier from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian explains what the cosmic dark ages might have felt like, and more in a conversation with Starlust.
Updated: Nov 3, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
'Rosetta stone' of Mars: Two-pound rock turns out to be 4-billion year old piece of red planet
This rose-colored meteorite named Teghaza 001 is said to be more than 4 billion years old and holds invaluable clues about the young red planet.
Updated: Nov 1, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
Space weekly recap, October 24 - October 30: Key stories you may have missed
Get insights into the development of a new space station, rising amounts of space debris, and more in this week's space recap.
Updated: Oct 30, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
Rare double disc around a dead star offers "remarkable" glimpse of our solar system's fate
“We have known for some time that planets may survive beyond the transformation of their central star, but this is the first example of a complex system with a double debris disc and potentially two surviving planetesimals.”
Updated: Oct 29, 2026 | By Purva Muley
Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have discovered one of the largest dwarf planets hidden beyond Pluto
This object, temporarily named 2026 ED138 (ED138), measures between 372 and 932 miles wide and lies about 46 astronomical units away from Earth.
Updated: Nov 7, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
A surprising twist in black hole physics: Could they split into two? Here's what scientists say
A new study suggests that black holes rotating near the cosmic speed limit might tear themselves apart, their event horizons splitting like the legs of a pair of trousers.
Updated: Oct 27, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
Meet Lumina—a comprehensive model of the early universe that will put our theories to the test
The model will help confirm existing theories about the evolution of the universe while helping astronomers come up with new ones based on findings of space telescopes such as Webb and Roman.
Updated: Oct 26, 2026 | By Pranjal Pranit
NASA’s James Webb Telescope provides stunning look at chaotic star birth 3,300 light-years away
This region has been previously imaged by the Spitzer Space Telescope but Webb’s infrared capabilities have presented it like never before.
Updated: Oct 26, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan