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SpaceX Dragon Approaching Station Packed with Science and Supplies
At approximately 9:50 a.m. EDT, Dragon will dock autonomously to the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module. NASA home page
The Sky Today on Sunday, May 17: Glimpse the zodiacal light
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The warmth of the sun on your skin began its journey up to 100,000 years ...
The warmth of the sun on your face this morning began somewhere deep in the solar interior, where the energy producing it spent an estimated tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years working its way outward before crossing the eight-minute gap to
The cells in your eyes that detect light are technically part of your brain, pushed ...
The photoreceptors at the back of your eyes are neurons. Not eye cells in some specialised sense, but actual brain tissue, the same lineage of cells that builds your cortex and your spinal cord, pushed outward through the eye stalk during early embryonic
A hidden layer of microbial life has been found beneath the Atacama Desert, and it ...
The Atacama Desert has long been useful to planetary scientists for a simple reason: it is not Mars, but it fails in some of the same ways Mars fails. It is dry, salty, exposed, uneven, and biologically difficult. In places, life is present only faintly enough
The International Space Station is travelling at 17,500 mph as you read this, and the ...
The International Space Station is moving at roughly 7.8 kilometres per second relative to the ground beneath it, completing an orbit every 90 to 93 minutes. At that velocity, the clocks aboard the station tick measurably slower than the clocks in the room you
The James Webb Space Telescope is currently observing galaxies that formed 13 billion years ago, ...
When the spectrograph data came back on XMM-VID1-2075 — a galaxy already known from earlier ground-based surveys to be one of the most massive in the early universe — the surprise was not its mass but its motion. The galaxy, observed at an epoch when the
Small space, big harvest
Short on space? Consider microgardening. Although the term might conjure thoughts of minuscule garden gnomes and fairies, the reality is quite the opposite. You can get a surprisingly high yield from a small space, even a windowsill
'Space has never been hotter': Analysts reveal top stock picks as investors target intergalactic gains
The space sector is back in the spotlight for investors in a new era of intergalactic exploration. ...
Respect his space: Adnan Sami on Arijit Singh's decision to retire from playback singing
Respect his space: Adnan Sami on Arijit Singh's decision to retire from playback singing ...
‘You could dig up a lot of asphalt’: Tim Smit’s Chelsea garden prioritises growing food
Eden Project founder wants to inspire councils to build community gardens so young people can grow vegetables
The big three carriers just agreed to do something they’ve never done before — pool ...
The three largest U.S. wireless carriers have agreed in principle to form a joint venture for direct-to-device satellite connectivity, a move that satellite operators chasing SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile have largely welcomed even as the market leader
Astronomers have spent decades modeling what triggers dwarf nova outbursts — a unique binary with ...
A binary star system locked in a tight 1.81-hour orbit is forcing astrophysicists to reconsider how matter behaves when trapped between ultracompact stellar remnants. ZTF J0007+4804, characterized by an international team using observations from the Zwicky
The Pentagon is quietly dismantling the agency that built York Space Systems into a contender ...
The Pentagon experiment that launched a generation of commercial space contractors is ending. The Space Development Agency, created to break Defense Department acquisition habits by awarding firm-fixed-price contracts on aggressive timelines and demanding
Rubin Observatory will sift 10,000 comets from a decade of nightly sky imagery while Walter ...
Astronomy has built pipelines that can sift through vast archives of sky imagery to find moving objects within days of their appearance. Meanwhile, according to Radiology Business, nearly 2,000 CT scans at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went
A cargo Dragon just flew its sixth mission to the ISS — and the quiet ...
SpaceX launched its 34th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station on May 15, and the Dragon capsule on top of the Falcon 9 was flying its sixth trip to orbit. A few years ago, that would have been a headline. This time it barely registered.
Saturn’s rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they’ll be gone within 100 million years — ...
The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according to the team led by James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, loses an amount of water from its rings every half hour that
Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones ...
The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creatures: the immortal jellyfish, the deep-sea tube worm, the bristlecone pine. The story arrives in roughly the same shape each time it is told.
The darkness of a Tasmanian town's night sky could be protected
The northern Tasmanian town of Ross is working to protect its night sky, a years-long process that would see it formally recognised for its darkness and clarity. ...
The two Voyager probes are slowly running out of power, and the engineers keeping them ...
Both Voyager spacecraft are now operating with the smallest sets of active science instruments in their nearly 49-year history. As of May 2026, Voyager 1 carries two: the magnetometer and the Plasma Wave Subsystem. Voyager 2 still has three of the original
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Missions to Ocean Moons Face a Strange Hazard Scientists Didn’t Expect
The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a pit of icy space slush, scientists warn. ...
Get $341 off the limited X edition of the Vaonis Vespera II at Walmart
The Vespera II X edition features a sleek, transparent shell and has internal temperature sensors for optimized deep sky observation. ...
Tidal Wave Auto Spa Celebrates Grand Opening in Melbourne, Florida
Grand Opening Celebrations for Tidal Wave's 30th Florida Location Includes Free Washes, Membership Specials, and Giveback Day THOMASTON, GA / ACCESS Newswire / May 15, 2026 / Tidal Wave Auto Spa, one of the nation's fastest-growing express car wash companies,
Apollo 11’s guidance software couldn’t be patched at the last minute. It was woven with ...
Apollo 11 launched on 16 July 1969 with a 70-pound guidance computer and a flight program that was already physically committed to copper wire. The computer used integrated circuits for its logic, but its flight program was not stored on a modern-style chip.
With the Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2, telescope-maker Vaonis unveils its sharpest optics yet
They boast a new optical design for sharper images and host a bunch of upgraded features to make stargazing a breeze. The Vaonis Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2 are available now. ...
Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus
Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it’s permanently shrouded in a thick and nigh-impenetrable layer of clouds. But when the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki space probe visited the steaming
IN-SPACe leads Indian space-tech delegation at Space Meetings Veneto 2026
Nine Indian companies were part of the delegation which strategic engagements with the Italian Space Industry Study Group in Venice, Italy. Three companies sign agreements for collaboration ...
Gemini Space 72 Hour Deadline Alert: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Reminds Investors With Losses ...
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House Republican requests UFO talk from private contractor
Lawmakers have said they believe the Pentagon is using private contractors to conceal UFO-related programs. ...