Space
The latest space stories, curated daily by LearningWire — Science, engineering, and discovery — the research and breakthroughs that matter.
- NASA space telescope plunges to Earth after two decades studying cosmic explosions
- What drives temperature preferences? Female mice have temperature sensors tuned to run warmer
- Pedal to the metal: NASA's Psyche heads toward asteroid belt
- Science & Discovery News Today — October 20, 2026
- Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples
- Webb reveals metal-rich gas around Milky Way's central black hole
- Japan to launch world-first mission to moon of Mars
- Japan's MMX mission aims to swipe soil samples from Mars's moon Phobos
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%
- SpaceX just delivered some very strange cargo to the International Space Station
- Plants shift gene activity within minutes of entering spaceflight, experiment reveals
- NASA's Hubble spies spiral's edge
- Elon Musk unveils Tesla's 'flying' car
- North Sea heat wave fueled underwater plankton bloom largely missed by satellites
- Quantum sensor could measure how Earth drags spacetime
- Satellites accurately detect methane emissions in largest controlled test yet
- How lessons from fisheries management could help us govern Earth's orbital space
- Space waves reveal where Earth's magnetic shield is under pressure
- NASA's SpaceX CRS-35 mission to launch health research
- James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe
- Gravity and quantum information linked through a derivation of Einstein's equations
- NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth
- NASA advances LISA mission contributions with new test telescope
- Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of the solar system
- Four astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space
- A trick from tardigrades could help human blood withstand freezing
- Harmless amoeba's tight-space crawling offers clues to how its deadly relative invades the brain
- Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchbacks
- Scientists uncover how the world's smallest flowering plant became so tiny
- Mars' oddest cloud may be even odder than previously thought
- 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
- Hubble reveals a stunning twist in how the universe emerged from darkness
- Astronauts just gave the International Space Station a powerful upgrade
- NASA discovers Jupiter’s invisible shield is more complex than Earth’s