Solar System

'Reckless' space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism

By Chelsea Gohd Published 9 July 26

"Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it’s reckless."

Take a trip to the turquoise waters of the Bahamas (from space) | Space photo of the day for July 9, 2026

By Chelsea Gohd Published 9 July 26

Can you hear the waves?

Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost?

By Elizabeth Howell Published 9 July 26

A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, needs to be considered for success.

Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new study suggests

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published 8 July 26

When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowed by the dying star, a new study suggests.

The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why

By Keith Cooper Published 7 July 26

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer atmosphere, providing a new clue to the mystery of the Sun's corona is so hot.

More clues surface about the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

By Keith Cooper Published 6 July 26

Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support similar observations made by the JWST.

'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published 6 July 26

Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millennium close approach to Earth in 2029.

Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we're headed back to the moon

By Mike Wall Published 4 July 26

Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly rooted on the ground when the United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.

In 1776, the moon was a clock, a calendar and a streetlight — and it was 31 feet closer to Earth

By Stefanie Waldek Published 2 July 26

The moon that rose on July 4, 1776, was slightly closer to Earth than it is today.