Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier in 2026. Early analysis suggests it's 600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune! 🔗 rubinobservatory.org/news/ru…

As the sun sets on NASA's Swift mission, we celebrate more than 21 years of discoveries. Designed to catch gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe's most powerful explosions, Swift revolutionized our understanding of these high-energy events and showed how they can illuminate everything from the births of black holes to the history of the early universe. But Swift's legacy extends far beyond gamma-ray bursts. Its rapid-response capabilities turned it one of astronomy's first responders, alerting observatories around the world to fleeting cosmic events and helping usher in the era of multimessenger astronomy. The mission leaves behind a remarkable scientific legacy and a wealth of data that will continue to enable discoveries for years to come.

Wow, look at all these Tesla Cybercabs and Model Y Robotaxis heading back to base. This is the largest number of Tesla robotaxis ever seen together on public roads. Tesla is nearing 1,000 robotaxis registered in Texas to date.

太陽を横切るいびつな影　火星探査車が見上げてきた衛星「フォボス」 sorae.info/newslink/sapod-ph… こちらは火星探査車Perseveranceが2026年8月12日に撮影した、太陽の前を横切る衛星「フォボス」です。火星の地表から撮影されました

Full duration 33-engine static fire for the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 15

JAXAの勝浦20mアンテナ高速で稼働！ だいち2号との通信を終えて、アンテナを天頂に向けた格納姿勢に戻す様子

Earth just hit middle age, and the Sun already knows how this ends. Our planet is around 4.5 billion years old. That puts it roughly halfway through its entire life. Half. The good stretch might already be behind us. Here’s the finale. In about 5 billion years the Sun runs low on fuel, swells into a red giant and expands so far it swallows the inner planets. Earth included. No asteroid. No alien invasion. Just the same star that keeps us alive slowly turning into the thing that eats us. Plenty of time to finish your coffee, though.

80 years ago, Johns Hopkins APL helped capture the first photos of Earth from space. On Oct. 24, 1946, James Van Allen and APL colleagues launched cameras and scientific instruments aboard a captured German V-2 rocket, giving humanity its first glimpse of Earth from space.