In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds,

What: A forward-looking SETI Live discussion examining the most significant space science missions, discoveries, and observational opportunities anticipated in 2026.

As space scales into daily infrastructure, which moments in 2026 will still feel new -and which will quietly change everything?

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer limits of the cosmos, 2026 should be a banner year for space science and e

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy. Announced today at a special session of the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS’s) annual winter meeting,

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever observed around a single star. The object, officially known as IRAS 23077+6707 and nicknamed "Dracula's Chivito," is a dusty disk that resembles a sandwich.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object to barrel into our neighborhood from interstellar space, and it is already shredding old assumptions about how comets form, move, and even what they are made of.

On the steps of the U.S. Capitol on a balmy October morning, a crowd of people sporting “Save NASA Science” buttons buzzes with anticipation. Among them stands Eli Orland, who likens America’s space science to the gleaming white building behind him.

For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, including at least one American—a streak that will soon reach ... Many modern devices—from ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the far stretches of the Milky Way.