Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:00
Join ESA teams to watch live the launch and docking of Crew-12, marking the beginning of a nine‑month mission to the International Space Station.
Musk says SpaceX focus is on the moon rather than Mars
Monday, 09 February 2026 21:55
A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars.
A road map to truly sustainable water systems in space
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Launch to ISS pushed to Thursday over weather: NASA
Monday, 09 February 2026 16:30We're checking your connection to prevent automated abuse
A long-lost Soviet spacecraft: AI could finally solve the mystery of Luna 9's landing site
Monday, 09 February 2026 14:00We're checking your connection to prevent automated abuse
Ariane 6: more boosters, more power
Monday, 09 February 2026 14:00
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For its most powerful flight yet, Ariane 6 lifts off for the first time with four boosters.
Designed for versatility, Ariane 6 can adapt to each mission: flying with two boosters for lighter payloads, or four boosters when more power is needed.
In its four-booster configuration, Ariane 6 can carry larger and heavier spacecraft into orbit, enabling some of Europe’s most ambitious missions — from science missions like PLATO to exploration systems such as Argonaut.
There’s a way forward for sovereign European space intel, but is there the will?
Monday, 09 February 2026 13:00
Germany’s top intelligence officials made waves last year by calling for the creation of a European spy network to lessen Europe’s dependence on American intelligence.
SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to moon, Musk says
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US astronaut to take her 3-year-old's cuddly rabbit into space
Monday, 09 February 2026 08:20We're checking your connection to prevent automated abuse
The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
Monday, 09 February 2026 03:45
When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race that Washington and Beijing still insist does not exist and pull Elon Musk's SpaceX into the center of a contest that blends geopolitics, markets and myth.
For two years, NASA has framed Artemis as NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
In March 2025, scientists reported identifying small amounts of decane, undecane, and dodecane in a rock sample analyzed in the chemistry lab aboard Curiosity. These were the largest organic compo DLR plans new control center for future Moon and Mars missions
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
For upcoming human and robotic missions to the Moon and Mars, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish a new Human Exploration Control Center (HECC) at its site in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich. The new facility will expand the existing German Space Operations Center (GSOC) and is designed to manage complex, long-duration missions beyond low Earth orbit while reinforcing Germany and Europ Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get back to work on Mars. Our first planning day last Friday gave Curiosity a full weekend of activities, which wrapped up with getting us ready for our next drill.
We checked out a broken white rock in the workspace with APXS, MAHLI, and ChemCam's laser spectrometer and fi 'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holes
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black holes - known as supermassive black hole binaries - around the universe.
Such a map would provide a vital new way to explore and understand astronomy and physics, just as X-rays and radio wave Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death star
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
A supermassive black hole that shredded a nearby star is blasting out a jet of energy that has kept brightening for four years, in one of the most powerful events ever recorded in the universe.
The outburst comes from a tidal disruption event designated AT2018hyz, in which a star strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by intense gravitational forces in a process astronomers d