17-year-old intern discovers planet orbiting two stars in first week at NASA
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
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Engineering student's $217.77 NASA tape purchase became a $1.82 million moonwalk recording
A broke engineering student's $217 surplus auction gamble became the most pristine record of the Apollo 11 moonwalk—one that NASA itself had destroyed.
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2026
Webb's sunshade blocks three celestial bodies at once, but astronauts can never reach it
By The Long View · Sep 17, 2026
Lunar pits could stay near 17°C, offering refuge for future bases
By The Long View · Sep 14, 2026
NASA's Voyager 2 gains another year of life with clever 10-watt power swap
By The Long View · Sep 13, 2026
Mars and Moon have radically different day-night cycles despite similar orbits
By The Long View · Sep 12, 2026
Woman rejected by NASA four times finally reaches space at 82
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 12, 2026
China plans first Martian sample return by 2031, a feat no nation has achieved
By The Long View · Sep 10, 2026
NASA's Genesis capsule crashed in Utah, but scientists salvaged its solar wind samples
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Carl Sagan's decade-long fight got Voyager 1 to photograph Earth as a pale blue pixel
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Soviet Mars 3 lasted just 14.5 seconds after first successful landing
By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
Nearly 14 years into its Mars mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover photographed a valley called Valle Grande in June 2026 and found the ground…
By Lab Report · Sep 7, 2026
The left lobe of Pluto's heart is a nitrogen ice sheet with no impact crater of any size in images down to about eighty metres per pixel…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 5, 2026