Space exploration, NASA missions, and awe-inspiring discoveries.
Minnesota’s water-filled Voyageurs National Park was named the 2026 International Dark Sky Place of the Year, thanks to star parties, winter stargazing and small towns dimming their lights.
On Nov. 5, 2026, astronauts Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk installed the eighth and final roll-out solar array on the ISS, completing a five-year upgrade that lifts power capacity from 160 to about 215 kilowatts.
Hubble and Webb have imaged the Cat’s Head Nebula, a cat-shaped dust pillar in the Carina Nebula 7,500 light-years away. Its glowing “eye” is likely a young star, and the three views reveal how stars are born.
In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos and shortened its orbit by about half an hour. Now ESA’s Hera probe has spotted the asteroid pair as two separate objects for the first time, and it arrives on November 4 to investigate what that historic nudge really did.
In 1999, Hubble recorded about 100 chemical fingerprints from a dead star that nobody could identify. A Warwick PhD student finally cracked them, and the answer points to a planet that may have formed from its star’s own ashes.
In April 2026, Artemis II became the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. NASA’s public-domain images from the voyage are as stunning as the milestone itself.