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NASA's second year-long Mars simulation mission ends today

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:07:17 +0000

The second crew that spent a year inside NASA's simulated Mars habitat is emerging today, and the agency will stream it live.

NASA plans to launch three massive rockets for the Artemis 3 crewed lunar test mission

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:58:00 +0000

NASA has detailed how the next Artemis 3 test will happen, but it doesn't have a concrete date for it yet.

Quantum computers can get colder than deep space — Here's how they stay running

staff@engadget.com (Nimrod Aldea) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Heat disrupts the accuracy of a quantum computer, so the computer needs to be kept as cold as possible. Which is extremely cold, it turns out.

Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:19:58 +0000

SpaceX has released a demo showing how it intends to catch Starship's upper stage, which could happen as soon as next month.

NASA explains how it's making batteries for the Moon's extreme temperatures

staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:07:03 +0000

Lithium-ion just isn't cut out for the cosmos.

Scientists find evidence of a second-generation planet born from a dying star

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:46:02 +0000

A team of scientists found evidence of a planet born from a white dwarf in decades-old Hubble data.

Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we've seen to date

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:28:24 +0000

Astronomers used the Webb telescope to see where the farthest fast radio burst we've ever seen had come from.

How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch

staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:20:00 +0000

How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch

SpaceX's latest Starship mission reached low-Earth orbit

staff@engadget.com (Jackson Chen) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:14:21 +0000

...with some small hiccups along the way.

Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space

staff@engadget.com (Lawrence Bonk) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:45:37 +0000

It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.

SpaceX targets September 28 for Starship's first orbital flight

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000

For Starship's 14th test flight, it will orbit our planet multiple times for 10 hours.

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:26:23 +0000

Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.

NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon

staff@engadget.com (Igor Bonifacic) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

NASA and IBM's latest collaboration is an AI model of the moon made for the Artemis era.

SpaceX's recovered Starship 40 will take months to get back to Texas

staff@engadget.com (Will Shanklin) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:30:00 +0000

SpaceX's rocket traveled thousands of miles from Texas to the Indian Ocean for a launch test. For a number of reasons, it'll take a lot longer to return home.

Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars

staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:00:16 +0000

The company will create a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA by December 31, 2028

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now on its way to study the 'dark universe'

staff@engadget.com (Cheyenne MacDonald) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:25:11 +0000

Its first images are expected to arrive in early 2027.

SpaceX is building a $100 billion 'Starbase' launch site in Louisiana

staff@engadget.com (Steve Dent) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:05:00 +0000

'We're preparing to build a spaceport that, until now, has only existed in science fiction,'

SpaceX to use NVIDIA GPUs for its Starmind project — Here's what they'll face in space

staff@engadget.com (Alec Hively) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Elon Musk wants to harness solar energy for AI.

How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's launch

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:48:02 +0000

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for launch on August 30.

NASA calls off mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:01:48 +0000

The Swift observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this year, because NASA has aborted its rescue mission.