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NASA announced on October 15, 2026, that registration is open for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026. The global hackathon will take place on Saturday, November 14, and Sunday, November 15, bringing together te...
Observations by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in April and May 2025 identified 19 very fast-rotating asteroids. One of them, 2025 MN45, has an estimated diameter of 710 metres and completes one rotation in 1.88...
NASA announced on September 23, 2026, that PRIMA, the first mission of its new Probe Explorers class, is advancing to Phase B of development. Its 5.9-foot telescope will conduct deep and sensitive surveys in th...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on March 2, 2025, near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium, carrying NASA science and technology payloads. The mission helps explain Commercial Lunar Payload Services...
Robotic exploration encompasses machines with different tasks: from observing other worlds to flying on Mars. What do sources describe regarding Europa Clipper, Dragonfly, Ingenuity, and an internet-controlled...
ESCAPADE is a NASA mission consisting of two orbiters roughly the size of a refrigerator. The agency says it has launched and expects the spacecraft to reach Mars in September 2027; the science mission would be...
“Planet parade” is not a single technical term: it can refer to several worlds that appear to form a line or arc in the sky, while “alignment” is also used to describe spatial configurations. NASA explains how...
A JPL update published on August 4, 2025, explains how Curiosity makes better use of the energy from its generator: it can carry out some activities at the same time and go to sleep early if it finishes its pla...
NASA puts the number of confirmed exoplanets at more than 6,000 and estimates that billions exist in the galaxy. The catalog makes it possible to compare their types, compositions, and detection methods.
The Curiosity rover analyzed a roughly 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich sandstone sample from Gale crater with its SAM instrument. In the first in situ thermochemolysis experiment with TMAH on a planetary body, r...
Psyche used Mars’s gravity to gain speed and adjust its trajectory toward the asteroid it will study in 2029. The encounter also let its instruments test observations of a planetary body.
NASA reports a demonstration in which artificial intelligence generated waypoints for a Perseverance drive. The agency explains why distance prevents real-time rover control and sets the test in the wider conte...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center mixed biodegradable plastic with simulated lunar and Martian dust. The resulting material was stronger and easier to process, but it must pass further tests before use on...
Announced on September 29, 2026, the HuLC challenge seeks proposals for lunar communications. Notices of intent are due October 15, and full proposals are due March 4, 2027.
Probes and other space observatories do not perform a single task: each mission is designed to investigate different targets. NASA highlights, among other examples, the study of the Sun, the exploration of Plut...
The Solar System is not limited to the planets shown in familiar diagrams. NASA’s figures include hundreds of moons and millions of smaller bodies, although counts can change and the source does not provide a r...
The history of robotic exploration is not preserved in a single account. NASA’s historical resources offer several entry points: primary documents, historical studies, scientific data collections and archived m...
Technology conceived through work related to Mars has been adapted to purify and reuse CO₂ produced during beer brewing. NASA published the story on September 24, 2026.
There will be two solar and two lunar eclipses in 2026. August brings the Perseids, an apparent Moon-Venus encounter and other highlights; none is necessarily visible from every region.
NASA’s 2026 skywatching summaries mention meteor showers, eclipses, Venus near the Moon, Mercury and a comet. For planning, distinguish the monthly previews from precise details that the sources consulted do no...
