Comet MAPS faces a make-or-break moment as it dives toward the sun on April 4 — could it shine in the daytime sky?

We are now in the home stretch in the nearly four-month saga of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS). This is the make-or-break week for this object as it heads for its long-awaited rendezvous with the sun this weekend.. The comet was discovered on Jan. 13, 2026, by a team of four amateur…

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NASA's Artemis 2 moon launch seen from space | Space photo of the day for April 2, 2026.

Humanity is on its way back to the moon as NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) blasts the space agency's Orion space capsule on April 1. The launch was even captured from space! What is it? This photo shows NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft blasting off from the…

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NASA’s Artemis II Launch Mission Countdown Begins.

The countdown for NASA’s Artemis II test flight is underway at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with members of the launch team arriving at their consoles inside the Rocco Petrone Launch Control Center. The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.…

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Artemis 2 astronauts reveal adorable zero-g indicator 'Rise' | Space photo of the day for March 31, 2026.

The four astronaut's of NASA's Artemis 2 mission arrived in style ahead of their historic moon mission. What is it? NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen landed their T-38 jets at the Launch a…

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Rocket Lab launch of Europe's 1st 2 'Celeste' navigation satellites scrubbed due to weather

Rocket Lab will launch two pioneering navigation satellites early on Wednesday morning (March 25), and you can watch the action live. An Electron rocket carrying the first two satellites for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Celeste navigation constellation is scheduled …

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On this day in space: March 29, 1807: Heinrich Olbers discovers asteroid Vesta.

On March 29, 1807, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered the asteroid Vesta. Vesta is the second-largest body in the asteroid belt and is surpassed in size only by the dwarf planet Ceres. To look for asteroids, astronomers would draw sky charts every night and loo…

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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find.

For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square miles (14.29 million square kilometers), very close t…

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NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing.

Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look at the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which recently completed construction and is wrapping up prelaunch testing. This will be one of the last opportun…

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Jupiter and the moon take a sunset stroll tonight. Here's how to see it.

Look to the east at sunset tonight (March 26) to see the half-lit form of the waxing gibbous moon shining close to the gas giant Jupiter in the evening sky, as the bright stars of the constellation Gemini twinkle nearby. The moon will make its closest approach to Jupiter at …

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NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways. Observing in complementary wavelengths of light, the two space observatories provide scientists with a richer, more…

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Could our universe exist because black holes ate up all the antimatter ?

One of the most fundamental and curious mysteries in the universe is the fact that anything exists at all. That is because during the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter particles should have been created — antimatter being like the "opposite" of regu…

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NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy.

NASA will host a public event at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 24, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington to outline how the agency is executing President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and accelerating preparations for America’s return to the surfac…

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Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket tonight ahead of April 1 launch.

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad tonight (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live. The Artemis 2 stack will leave Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) tonight at around 8 p…

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NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight.

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026.  Although the flight duration was abbreviated due to a technical issue, the team was able to collect information that will inform future tests.  “De…

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'At the edge of what we thought possible': Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe.

Scientists have adopted the role of "cosmic archaeologists" to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe's chemical evolution. Just as uncovering artifacts here on Earth teaches us about lost generatio…

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NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Docking.

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch…

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How fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers may be one step closer to resolving 'Hubble trouble'.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant — named after Edwin…

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Two days, two coasts, two more SpaceX Starlink batches launched.

SpaceX launched two more sets of Starlink satellites on back-to-back, coast-to-coast flights on Friday and Saturday. First up, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 13. The 25 satellites (Group 17-31…

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. The flyby allowed the spacecraft to conduct measurements of the solar wind and solar …

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete its second flight, in California. F…

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