Sky and Solar

Curiosity Mars rover sizes up new 'Nazca' dig site | Space photo of the day for Nov. 10, 2026
10 November 2026

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is sizing up its next dig site on the Red Planet. The Curiosity team will characterize the surface composition of "Nazca" as thoroughly as possible before drilling.
See the first images from the new ZWO Seestar S30 Plus — a smart telescope aimed at beginners
10 November 2026

While rivals announce increasingly expensive smart telescopes, ZWO’s new Seestar S30 Plus makes galaxy and nebula photography surprisingly affordable.
Total solar eclipse 2027 vs 2028 — Which one should you choose, Egypt or Australia?
10 November 2026

From six minutes of darkness in Egypt or totality over the Australian Outback, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses.
NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes slingshot around Earth in unprecedented double 'gravity assist'
10 November 2026

NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft are wrapping up a year-long voyage to Mars, and are now ready to make a beeline to the Red Planet.
On this day in space! Nov. 9, 1967: NASA launches the Saturn V moon rocket for the first time on Apollo 4, but no astronauts were aboard
09 November 2026

On this day in space! Nov. 9, 1967: NASA launches the Saturn V moon rocket for the first time on Apollo 4, but no astronauts were aboard

Hera closes in on the asteroid DART impacted
09 November 2026

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Hera spacecraft has returned its first close-up view of the Didymos asteroid system, marking the beginning of an ‘asteroid autopsy’ to discover what NASA’s DART impact really did to the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022.
Happy New Year, Mars! The Red Planet is turning 39
29 September 2026

On 30 September the Red Planet officially begins Mars Year 39. Which is quite an achievement for a world that is actually more than 4.5 billion years old.
3I/ATLAS was born in the deep freeze
08 September 2026

Another piece of evidence suggests that this visitor formed in the bitterly cold outer reaches of a distant planetary system.
Roman Space Telescope launches on mission to survey the Universe
30 August 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space, starting a mission that will survey the Universe on an unprecedented scale in search of clues to dark energy, dark matter and worlds beyond our Solar System.
JWST’s ‘impossible’ early galaxies may be even more massive than we thought
24 August 2026

Faint, low-mass stars could be hiding much of the mass in distant galaxies, making the surprisingly large galaxies discovered by JWST in the early Universe even harder to explain.
How to observe the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse
07 August 2026

On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, producing a striking solar eclipse. Find out how, when and where to observe it safely.