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Space Quote: Robots Plan to Visit the Moon
“Our team is not trying to replace human explorers with robots but instead make human exploration safer and more sustainable by developing highly capable, reliable, and trustworthy robots to work in extreme environments…If we can send more capable robots, we can reduce the risk and make people more effective in doing the things that people…
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Crew-13 Safely Arrives at the ISS
A new ISS crew was launched from Cape Canaveral at 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, October 1, 2026 . Crew-13, consisting of NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. The ride to the space station was scheduled to be about 8 hours. The SpaceX…
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Pic of the Week: Colorful IC 348
This week’s image is from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). With its sharp, amazing colors you would not think it is real, yet you are looking at a star-forming region about 1,000 light-years away called IC 348. Here is NASA’s description of what you are seeing: In regions like IC 348, cold clouds of…
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Sci-Fi Quote: Black Mirror is Today’s Twilight Zone
“In Serling’s day, the atom bomb, civil rights, McCarthyism, psychiatry and the space race were of primary concern. Today he’d be writing about terrorism, the economy, the media, privacy and our relationship with technology…That’s what we’re aiming for with Black Mirror: each episode has a different cast, a different setting, even a different reality. But…
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A Day in Astronomy: The Successful Launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 1
On this day in 2008, SpaceX had a successful launch of its Falcon 1 rocket after three earlier failures. Launched from Omelek Island in the Marshall Islands, the rocket would fly only one more mission before being retired. It was replaced by the Falcon 9, which is still in service today. After the third failure…
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Study Findings: Early Metal-enriched Baryon Cycling Before the Midpoint of Cosmic Reionization
Nature Astronomy abstract of study findings: Models predict that chemical enrichment and gas redistribution should begin rapidly once star formation starts, but direct constraints at the earliest epochs have been scarce. Here we show that metal-enriched gas in multiple ionic phases was already present around galaxies before the midpoint of cosmic reionization. Using JWST/NIRSpec rest-frame ultraviolet spectroscopy from…
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Space Quote: A New Space Telescope is Being Planned
“With our Webb and Roman space telescopes, we set a cadence of launching premiere-class missions in both halves of the decade. We’re going to keep that up and kick off the next decade with PRIMA, as part of a pipeline that will consistently have missions of this caliber ready to go.” –Statement by Shawn Domagal-Goldman,…
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The Original Star Wars Returns: Get Your Tickets
If The Mandalorian and Grogu was not your favorite film this summer, you have plenty of time to prepare for the release of the original Star Wars film on its 50th anniversary. That’s right, it will be 50 years old next year. The original Star Wars film was released on May 25, 1977. The re-release…
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Pic of the Week: 2026 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Winner
This week’s image is the winning entry in the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 contest at the Royal Museums Greenwich. The photo of the Shark Nebula is titled “The Quiet Predator,” and it was submitted by Ali Alobaidly. Here is how Ali Alobaidly describes his photo: The Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) prowls 650…
