NASA and IBM Research launched an open-source artificial intelligence model on September 10, 2026, designed to process nearly two decades of lunar data and assist scientists with future crewed missions to the Moon. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model helps researchers map impact craters, locate potential ice deposits, and identify rare geological features using petabytes of … Read more
A staggering 77 percent of over 900 published studies mapped by Carbon Brief show that extreme weather events were made more likely or severe by human-caused climate change. The UK-based organisation compiled the data across nearly 1,000 weather events and trends worldwide, setting human-driven warming against a backdrop of rising global temperatures that reached 1.44 … Read more
NASA’s Dexterous Robotics Team at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is developing advanced robots to work alongside human astronauts on future lunar and Mars missions. Popular Science reported that the initiative aims to make deep-space exploration safer by deploying machines to handle high-risk tasks such as equipment transport, hazardous repairs, and surface scouting, … Read more
NASA awarded Modulate Space Corporation a firm-fixed-price contract valued at approximately $38 million to develop key elements of a 5G communications system for use on the lunar surface, featuring built-in Wi-Fi 6, for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Announced through agency releases, the project is structured into two primary areas designed to build a … Read more
NASA plans to resume Boeing Starliner missions with an uncrewed flight scheduled no earlier than December, following a 2024 test flight failure that left astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded at the International Space Station for nine months. The agency will spend an additional $359 million on vehicle upgrades and rocket certification to ensure … Read more
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet ever found at less than a million years old. Identified by Andrea Bernardi and his research team using archival data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the Jupiter-mass world orbits a star located 450 light-years from Earth. The findings offer a … Read more
SpaceX rocket launches routinely feature returning boosters, but behind those visible milestones lies a radical redesign of internal aerospace hardware, from pneumatic separation systems to fuel-driven thrust vectors. According to NASA documentation and SpaceX mission guides, the company recovers Falcon 9 first stages while upper stages carry payloads to orbit, reuses protective satellite fairings across … Read more
New analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring reveals that Enceladus’ salty ocean spray freezes and fragments in a far more complex way than planetary scientists previously understood. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances by Dr. Frank Postberg from Freie Universität Berlin and his colleagues, show that individual ice … Read more
These observations reveal that icy bodies in the outer solar system are scarcer than some planet formation models predicted, while their surface colors indicate they may preserve traces of their origins despite billions of years of potential collisions. Detecting Faint TNOs With Hubble and Webb Spotting objects in the outermost reaches of the solar system … Read more
According to NASA Science, Tonga’s Home Reef submarine volcano has expanded its footprint by nearly 20 acres as of February 2026, driven by continuous lava flows and repeated eruptions along the active Tonga Volcanic Arc in the South Pacific. The remote underwater vent, which famously launched a 12-kilometer-high plume and formed a substantial island during … Read more