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NASA published its first science report from the Artemis II mission on Oct. 7, 2026, confirming that the crew saw five faint flashes of light as rocky fragments struck the far side of the Moon. The…
The southern coast of Panama's Azuero Peninsula has the shape of a place where one slab of ocean floor dives beneath another. The faults that cut across the peninsula itself mostly do something else.…
Ceres is dotted with bright patches of salt, and each one is a kind of receipt. Salt like that is left behind when briny liquid reaches the surface and the water evaporates. Whatever was dissolved in…
Twelve small capsules, each holding a different experimental heat shield material, left the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2026, packed in with the trash. NASA's Ames Research Center says…
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…
Three planets a little larger than Earth have been statistically validated around TOI-789, a small, cool red star 43 parsecs away, or roughly 140 light-years, in a paper published Oct. 7, 2026, in…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has measured the distance to what the agency calls the most distant fast radio burst seen to date, and the galaxy it came from is a small dwarf rather than the…
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…
A reanalysis of ultraviolet spectra the Hubble Space Telescope took in 1999 has found the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, the burnt-out core of a dead star, pulling in material that matches nothing in the…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried four crew members toward the International Space Station at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Their Dragon capsule…
Three small spacecraft funded by NASA reached orbit on Oct. 1, 2026, lifting off at 11:32 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Transporter-18…
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…