Sky and Solar

Patrick Stewart, renowned actor and ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard, dies at 86
29 October 2026

Patrick Stewart, the distinguished British actor of stage and screen, passed away Wednesday (Oct. 28) in Los Angeles at the age of 86.
On this day in space! Oct. 29, 1991: NASA's Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Gaspra and snaps amazing photos while flying at 18,000 mph
29 October 2026

On Oct. 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. Here's why it mattered.
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman named deputy director for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
29 October 2026

The leader of NASA's first mission around the moon in half a century is the last to announce what's next for him after retiring from active astronaut duty.
Astronauts deploy solar array on 100th US spacewalk by International Space Station crew members
29 October 2026

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency deployed a new solar array on Thursday (Oct. 29) during a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
'Crystal Lake' is great, but nothing tops the space horror shenanigans of 'Jason X'
29 October 2026

The Voorhees legend continues in Crystal Lake, but Jason X remains the Citizen Kane of this franchise.

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.
Falcon 9 lunar impact: More than a new crater
05 August 2026

Today’s impact of a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage on the Moon may sound dramatic, but it is neither the first human-made object to strike our natural satellite nor the largest.