SCIENCE

A deep partial lunar eclipse will shadow 96% of the moon on August 27–28, 2026, visible across the Americas and seen by nearly 3 billion people globally.

China is set to launch the Chang’e 7 mission on August 24, 2026, the first spacecraft ever to attempt a landing at the lunar south pole’s Shackleton Crater. The mission aims to hunt for water ice in permanently shadowed regions, using a suite of international scientific instruments.

On August 6, 2026, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk, installing the seventh and final iROSA solar array mounting hardware on the International Space Station, setting the stage for a 20–30% increase in the station's electricity supply.

NASA kicks off Expedition 75 with a trio of spacewalks, including Maine-native Jessica Meir’s sixth outing on August 6, focusing on crucial upgrades to the International Space Station’s power and communications systems.

A striking new radar image from the joint NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite shows a “hummingbird” pattern over East Antarctica, highlighting the power of advanced radar to see through ice and map glacier movement.

A Canadian amateur astronomer, Joël Lapointe, discovered a massive 15-kilometer-wide meteor crater in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region using Google Maps, revealing a 390-million-year-old impact site now confirmed by scientists.

Claire Parfitt’s journey from a NASA rejection and cleaning space toilets to leading the European Space Agency’s Mars exploration team is redefining what it takes to reach for the stars.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have engineered SpudCell, the first synthetic cell built entirely from non-living components, capable of growth, replication, and selection—potentially transforming medicine and industry.

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in Martian rocks at Jezero Crater, according to a June 24, 2026 study. While the findings spark fresh debate about life on Mars, scientists caution the carbon may have non-biological origins.

Reliance Jio is preparing to deploy a constellation of up to 1,650 low-Earth orbit satellites, aiming to provide broadband and direct-to-device internet connectivity to remote and underserved regions across India, transforming the country’s telecom landscape.