Sci-Fi & Space

From the live wire, refreshed hourly. The stories the most outlets are covering lead; below them the section's full stream runs newest first, back seven days.

Space.com · 8 hr ago

What's next for SpaceX's Starship after epic Flight 15 chopsticks catch?

Space.com · Nov 14 — Why did Starship Flight 15 booster abort 'chopsticks' landing catch? SpaceX still investigating (video)

NPR Science · 21 hr ago — SpaceX successfully catches Starship and makes history

NPR Technology · 20 hr ago — SpaceX makes history with Starship catch

3 outlets covering this story · latest 8 hr ago

Phys.org Space · 6 hr ago

SpaceX's Starship returns from orbit and is captured by launch pad arms in a dramatic first

The Guardian Science · 20 hr ago — SpaceX’s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit in victory for company

The Guardian Science · 6 hr ago — SpaceX’s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit – video

2 outlets covering this story · latest 6 hr ago

Space.com · 2 hr ago

30 years ago, 'Space Jam' proposed the best way to resolve interplanetary disputes

Space.com · 3 hr ago

On this day in space! Nov. 15, 1988: The 300-foot Green Bank Telescope collapses suddenly, leaving a huge pile of wreckage in West Virginia

Space.com · 4 hr ago

Why hasn't the 'Blaze Star' exploded yet? Astronomers weigh in on what to expect

Phys.org Space · 5 hr ago

New observations challenge evidence for an 'outsize' black hole in the early universe

Universe Today · 6 hr ago

Navigating Lunar Orbit Using Nothing But Shadows And A Power Meter

Phys.org Space · 6 hr ago

ALMA reveals three star-forming cores at different stages inside one gas clump

Space.com · 6 hr ago

How escaping gases ripped apart a comet and caused it to become thousands of times brighter

ScienceDaily Space · 17 hr ago

Euclid discovers ancient cosmic beacons from the dawn of time, shining like a trillion suns

Phys.org Space · 17 hr ago

Is this iconic black hole image accurate? New study delivers an independent result

Universe Today · 21 hr ago

The First Foreign Astronaut Will Visit China's Tiangong Space Station in Two Weeks

Phys.org Space · 22 hr ago

A dead star is flashing radio waves every 8 minutes, and its partner looks a lot like the sun

Phys.org Space · Nov 14

NASA's Voyager 1 closes in on a light-day in interstellar space for a new distance record

Phys.org Space · Nov 14

A cosmic magnifying glass could reveal the same supernova two more times in roughly 70 years

Space.com · Nov 14

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 236 — Alienspotting

Space.com · Nov 14

'Alien: Fireteam Elite 2' is a good old-fashioned bug hunt, ironically plagued by bugs

Space.com · Nov 14

On this day in space! Nov. 14, 1969: NASA's Apollo 12 astronauts launch to the moon on a 'pinpoint landing' lunar mission

Phys.org Space · Nov 14

A common food emulsifier could solve one of rocketry's oldest fuel problems

Space.com · Nov 14

'Now everything changes': SpaceX catches Starship upper stage for 1st time ever (video)

ScienceDaily Space · Nov 14

A giant icy world hiding beyond Pluto could be our sixth dwarf planet

Phys.org Space · Nov 14

SpaceX's Starship soars into orbit after booster explosion prevents an unprecedented double catch

Universe Today · Nov 14

When Einstein's Gravitational Waves Meet Newton's Tides

Universe Today · Nov 13

Astrophysicists Cross Another Dark Matter Candidate Off Their List: Stupendously Large Black Holes

Universe Today · Nov 13

LOFAR Takes the Deepest Image of the Low-Frequency Radio Sky to Date

SpaceNews · Nov 13

Commercial Space Federation Welcomes CesiumAstro as a New Associate Member

Universe Today · Nov 13

Dense Galaxy Clusters Foster Mechanisms That Throttle Star Formation

Universe Today · Nov 13

Shape-Shifting Robotic "Slugs" Could One Day Crawl Across Alien Worlds

NASA · Nov 13

Outbursts from a Massive Star

NASA · Nov 13

Gemini Astronaut Photos Inspired Early Earth Observation Program

Universe Today · Nov 13

Tears of the Lion: Catching the 2026 Leonid Meteors

ScienceDaily Space · Nov 13

Dark energy may have flipped from negative to positive 9.5 billion years ago

ScienceDaily Space · Nov 13

The Sun unleashed a monster storm. Earth may have made it worse

NASA · Nov 13

APOD: 2026 November 13 – NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda

NASA · Nov 13

A Global Rebound for Mangroves

SpaceNews · Nov 13

AST SpaceMobile presses case for developing own launch vehicle

NASA · Nov 12

I Am Artemis Katie Spicer

SpaceNews · Nov 12

UARX Space Marks a Milestone for Spain’s Space Industry with the Maiden Flight of OSSIE-D, Featuring a Complete Power Subsystem Supplied by DHV Technology

SpaceNews · Nov 12

What role does industry play in Europe’s space sovereignty push?

NASA · Nov 12

Heart in the Sky at NASA Kennedy

NASA · Nov 12

NASA Ames Stars of the Month: November 2026

ESA · Nov 12

Hera spies a half-hidden asteroid moonlet

NASA · Nov 12

NASA’s Hubble Offers Cosmic Sampler of Targets for Roman

NASA · Nov 12

Through NASA’s Lens: Capturing Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Move to LA

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