Space
The latest space stories, curated daily by MechNews — Science, engineering, and discovery — the research and breakthroughs that matter.
- How space weather powers auroras in the sky and threatens power grids on the ground
- Don't miss: Meteor showers, fireballs, and a supermoon light up November's night sky
- Hubble learns galactic history from stars
- Overlooked Melbourne patch reveals 45 animal species and more than 40 plant types
- NASA's Voyager 1 conserves power, resolves brief communications pause
- Hubble reveals a stunning twist in how the universe emerged from darkness
- How the quantum vacuum perturbs atoms, could shrink black holes and may have helped form galaxies
- 2024 solar storm triggered ultrarelativistic electrons inside Earth's 'impenetrable barrier'
- Nanoscale alloy redesign tackles cold brittleness for potential deep-space and deep-sea applications
- Autonomous triangular modules could build tomorrow's mega-observatories
- NASA's CASALS instrument bridges gaps in 3D maps of Earth's surface
- Engineers teach spacecraft to 'dream' their way to the space station
- Webb detects ammonia and unexpected chill on a distant giant planet
- NASA to study human health and performance during Crew-13 mission
- Astronomy's decades-long quest to understand cosmic topology
- From toothbrushes to aerospace: Graphene research advances fibers that conduct heat efficiently
- Mech News Today — September 17, 2026
- NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon
- Gravitational-wave analysis narrows the search for black hole impostors
- Sun's largest sunspots may have potential to trigger superflares
- Scientists want to 3D print houses on Mars with the help of yeast
- AI tool detects unusual satellite behavior to improve space safety
- NASA’s Swift telescope is back, but time is running out
- Femtosecond nano-imaging reveals ultrafast optical control of phonon polaritons
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets
- Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits
- We're building a New York‑sized city every month. That's worrying for our climate
- A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater
- China recovers rocket stage on land for first time, after earlier recovery at sea
- Hubble solves merger mystery from Milky Way's early years
- NASA reveals bold new plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2028
- A hidden limit of space and time could unlock electronics 100,000 times faster
- Don't miss: Meteor showers, fireballs, and a supermoon light up November's night sky
- NASA’s Swift telescope falls to Earth after nearly 22 years in space
- NASA is racing against time to save the Hubble Space Telescope
- All 5 genetic “letters” of DNA and RNA discovered in a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid
- NASA smashed into an asteroid. Now Hera is closing in to see what happened
- NASA's Hubble and Webb discover ancient worlds that remember their past