What Is the Milky Way Galaxy? Everything You Need to Know

We live inside a galaxy so large that no one can step back and photograph it in a single frame. That is the central challenge of Milky Way astronomy: we are trying to map the forest while standing amo…

Northern Lights Alert Upgraded Across 23 States

News

June 4, 2026

Northern Lights Alert Upgraded Across 23 States

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center upgraded its aurora outlook for Thursday, 4 June into Friday, 5 …

What Would Happen If Earth Stopped Spinning?

Explainers

June 3, 2026

What Would Happen If Earth Stopped Spinning?

Earth’s spin feels so constant that it is easy to treat it as background scenery rather than one of the defining facts of our planet. Yet the ground b…

Webb finds methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

News

June 2, 2026

Webb finds methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured something remarkably rare: a detailed chemical fingerprint from an object that came from beyond our Sol…

Explainers

June 1, 2026

Why Astronauts Float: The Real Reason for Weightlessness

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station seem to drift effortlessly, as if gravity has somehow been switched off. It is one of the most persistent myth…

May 20, 2026

Why Mars Is Red and Its Sunsets Turn Blue

May 14, 2026

What Is the Fermi Paradox? Why Haven’t We Found Aliens Yet?

News

May 28, 2026

Russian cosmonauts install new Sun-watching telescope during ISS spacewalk

Two Roscosmos cosmonauts stepped back inside the International Space Station on 27 May 2026 after a tightly choreographed spacewalk that blended orbital mainten…

May 27, 2026

NASA unveils first Moon Base missions for its lunar south pole campaign

May 19, 2026

ESA and China launch SMILE mission to track space weather in real time

Astronomy

May 27, 2026

James Webb may have found a black hole older than its galaxy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered one of those results that makes the early universe feel even stranger than expected. Astronomers studying a comp…

May 21, 2026

Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be a Lost World Survivor

May 15, 2026

JWST May Have Finally Found the Universe’s First Stars

Missions

May 25, 2026

Shenzhou-23 marks China’s first planned year in orbit

China has launched the Shenzhou-23 crewed mission to the Tiangong space station, and the headline detail is hard to miss: one of the three astronauts is planned…

May 20, 2026

How Astronauts Slept, Ate and Survived Inside Orion During Artemis II

May 14, 2026

NASA’s Artemis III Plan: What the Mission Will Do

Space Agencies

May 8, 2026

What Is ESA? Europe’s Space Agency Explained

The European Space Agency is Europe’s gateway to space: an intergovernmental organisation created in 1975 to develop a shared space programme for peaceful purpo…

May 8, 2026

Astronaut Requirements by Space Agency 2026

May 7, 2026

SpaceX vs NASA: What’s the Difference?

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