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NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission brought four astronauts back to Earth on Oct. 8, 2026, when the Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles. NASA…
The European Space Agency reported Oct. 8, 2026, that its Solar Orbiter spacecraft has traced one of the solar wind's magnetic kinks back to its birthplace on the Sun. The spacecraft flew through a…
Researchers using Europe's Mars Express orbiter report that their Mars weather model could reproduce a long water-ice cloud over a Martian volcano only once they allowed water vapor to freeze…
X-ray astronomers have spent decades watching V4641 Sagittarii at its loudest. The system is a black hole pulling gas off a companion star in the constellation Sagittarius, and every few years it…
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have assembled 21 young star systems whose dust appears to be the wreckage of collisions between rocky bodies, and have sorted them into two groups…
Forecasters at the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre used laser measurements from Europe's EarthCARE satellite to verify how high the ash plume from Anak Krakatau was reaching, the European Space…
The European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have cleared their joint Smile spacecraft to begin science operations, and ESA has released the first footage from its ultraviolet…
The European Space Agency says its Ramses spacecraft, being built to meet the asteroid Apophis, has been switched on for the first time as an assembled spacecraft, at its prime contractor's cleanroom…
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, skimmed the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 28, 2026, passing 8,640 kilometers above the Indian Ocean at 11:45 UTC and using…
A chemist who wants to know what is dissolved in a jar of seawater has to take the sample apart first: separate the salts, concentrate each one, then put it in front of an instrument on its own. On…
How much ice Greenland and Antarctica have lost is not one measurement. It is dozens. One group weighs the ice from orbit, with satellites that sense small changes in the pull of Earth's gravity.…
The European Space Agency launched two Earth observation satellites on a single Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, and says its mission control center in Germany has received a…