ISS at 25: How MIT-trained astronauts and engineers helped build and use the station
Twenty-five years of continuous crews on the ISS were marked in November 2025, with MIT-linked astronauts and researchers…
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Dark comets: A tail for 1998 SH2 and a Hayabusa2 visit due in 2031
In July 2026 NASA reported a weak tail on near-Earth object 1998 SH2, a dark comet, while Hayabusa2…
3I/ATLAS has left the inner solar system: What Hubble, Webb and SPHEREx found
NASA says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving the solar system for good, and Webb, Hubble and SPHEREx data…
Seven superclouds near the Sun: The 2026 A&A paper and its follow-up
A catalog in Astronomy & Astrophysics describes seven elongated gas superclouds near the Sun, five of them new,…
Venus eruption found in old Magellan radar images as new missions near
Radar images from NASA's Magellan show a Maat Mons vent that changed in 1991, the first direct evidence…
Planet-forming disks hold water, and ALMA data link it to Earth’s water
ALMA has found at least 3.7 Earth oceans of water vapor in the HL Tauri disk and at…
Life aboard the International Space Station in 2026: Crew, routine and a 2030 end date
Eleven people were aboard the International Space Station when Crew-13 arrived on Oct. 1, 2026, and NASA's own…
Perseverance passes Opportunity’s driving record as Curiosity tops 1 km of climb
Perseverance passed Opportunity's off-world driving record on Oct. 11, 2026, and Curiosity reached 1 kilometer of elevation gain…
Gilmour Space finds oxidizer pump faults behind Eris rocket’s 14-second flight
Gilmour Space's April 2026 investigation traced the Eris rocket's 14-second flight to two independent faults in its oxidizer…
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 4 targets the Moon’s south pole no earlier than 2029
Firefly's $176.7 million Blue Ghost Mission 4 will take two rovers and three instruments to the lunar south…
Hubble Network’s satellite upgrade promises a true global Bluetooth layer
Imagine a Bluetooth network stretching all around the Earth, connecting devices seamlessly across continents and oceans. That’s exactly…
Claim of a 26.7-billion-year-old universe stays outside the mainstream
A single-author 2023 paper proposed an age of 26.7 billion years, but NASA still gives 13.8 billion and…