Image Credit: SpaceX By Stephen Marcantel, Published by The Current, 3 September 2026 By the time the public comment period on a proposed Federal Aviation Administration rule change closed Monday night, thousands had shared their thoughts — more than half of them mentioning Louisiana and its rapidly eroding coastline, fragile
By The Artful Age Editorial Team, 2 September 2026 A patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria. That number holds whether the skin belongs to a toddler, a grandmother, or an astronaut sealed inside a spacesuit on the way to the Moon.
The Kosmos 954 satellite burned up upon reentry, scattering radioactive debris across northern Canada (Screenshot via YouTube) By Chris Jeremia, Published by Space Daily, 29 August 2026 Moscow's ambassador said the reactor on board had been designed for complete destruction on re-entry — radioactivity had already fallen across 124,000 square
A Chinese LandSapce ZhuQue-3 booster, the country's first to successfully touch down on land. LandSpace By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 19 August 2026 Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of
A concept for a later phase of NASA's proposed lunar base. Credit: NASA By Therese Jones, Published by Space News, 17 August 2026 Earlier this month, a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface at 8,700 kilometers per hour. This was not a controlled landing. The
A map of the moon showing the predicted site of impact on Aug. 5, 2026. (Image credit: Bill Gray) By Matthew Glasser, Published by ABC News, 4 August, 2026 A discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour. A roughly five-ton piece of a
The SpaceX rocket expected to smash into the moon is seen lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 15 January 2025. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA By Associated Press, Published by The Guardian, 31 July 2026 Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on
SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 29 July 2026 WASHINGTON — The
