July 2026 - SPACEOPEDIA

China Releases First Close-Up Photo of Earth’s Strange Quasi-Moon

Earth has the Moon. But it also has something much smaller, stranger, and far less famous travelling near it. China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has returned the first close-up image of asteroid…

Atlas 07/07/2026

Deep Space

NASA Webb Reveals a Galaxy Still Scarred by a Cosmic Collision

Some galaxies look peaceful from far away. Centaurus A is not one of them. NASA has released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, showing the nearby galaxy…

Konrad 07/07/2026

Space Mysteries

Is the Speed of Dark A Real Thing?

Everyone knows about the speed of light. It is one of the most famous limits in the universe, clocking in at roughly 186,000 miles per second, or about 300,000 kilometers…

Konrad 04/07/2026

Space News

ESO Warns One Million Satellites Could Threaten the Night Sky

The night sky may be heading toward a very strange future. Not because of aliens. Not because Betelgeuse is about to explode for the 900th time according to someone’s Facebook…

Atlas 04/07/2026

Solar System

ESA Spacecraft Reaches Orbit to Watch Earth’s Invisible Shield

Earth is not just floating naked through space. Thankfully. Our planet is surrounded by an invisible protective bubble called the magnetosphere. It is created by Earth’s magnetic field and helps…

Atlas 02/07/2026

Space Mysteries

NASA Finds the Milky Way May Be Wider Than We Thought

We live inside the Milky Way, but that does not mean we have a perfect map of it. In fact, that is one of the weirdest things about astronomy. We…

Konrad 02/07/2026

Space News

James Webb Finds Clues to How a Planet Survived the Death of Its Star

A planet should not be there. That is the awkward little problem astronomers are dealing with after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope studied a strange world called WD 1856 b.…

Atlas 02/07/2026