Orionid, Taurid Meteors Haunt October Skies
Fall meteor season has begun. Late October not only sees dusk falling ever earlier as ghouls and goblins walk the Earth on Halloween, but it also sees the peak of…
SPHEREx Just Took the Fingerprints of Failed Stars Across Our Cosmic Neighborhood
Brown dwarfs are the black (or brown?) sheep of astronomy. They’re too big to be considered a traditional gas planet, but they are too small to have started nuclear fusion…
Agile Space Industries Expands to Seattle Area with New Bellevue Office
BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 15, 2026 — Agile Space Industries, a leading provider of in-space chemical propulsion solutions, has expanded into the Seattle metropolitan area with the opening of a new…
Watch SpaceX deliver more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the ISS today
A Dragon is closing the gap between itself and its destination after a more than two-day-long orbital pursuit. SpaceX’s cargo Dragon, flying the CRS-35 (35th Commercial Resupply Services) mission for…
APOD: 2026 October 15 – The Milky Way over Manhattan
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 15 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each…
Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Arrive in the Amazon… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth…
Planetary genealogy: Milky Way worlds belong to 1 of 2 ‘families,’ scientists find
You can tell a lot about how a child will age by looking at their parents, and it turns out that this could be true for planetary systems, too. Scientists…
NASA to Host News Conference Previewing US Spacewalks 100, 101
NASA astronaut Anil Menon conducts a spacewalk on Aug. 6, 2026, to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system. Credit: NASA NASA will preview two…
‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ author Matt Dinniman talks inspirations, success, and the upcoming Peacock TV series (interview)
Fall has officially arrived, and as autumn leaves blaze in vivid colors, there is no better time to plunge into the imaginative world of New York Times best-selling author Matt…
The Perseverance Rover Reaches Another Milestone
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached another milestone. It now holds the record for the longest distance travelled on another world, meaning Mars and Earth’s Moon. It’s all thanks the ingenuity…