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SpaceX fuels up Starship V3 megarocket for 1st time ahead of crucial test flight (photos)

May 13, 2026
SpaceX has fueled up the new variant of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever, preparing for a crucial test flight that could launch in less than a week. The company assembled a Starship Version 3 (V3) vehicle for the first time over the weekend, stacking a Ship upper stage atop a Super Heavy first-stage booster at its Starbase site in South Texas. That set a new record for the…
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Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict an asteroid impact?

May 12, 2026
Dante’s famous 14th century epic poem, “Inferno,” which is the first part of the Italian writer’s “Divine Comedy,” represents the first time a giant impact of a massive object falling from the heavens was envisaged, according to an expert in the specialized field of geomythology. In the poem, the massive object in question is the Devil himself, Lucifer, who fell…
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NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far side of the moon that cameras struggle to capture. Here's why scientists are excited

May 11, 2026
The Artemis 2 astronauts remained vigilant while zipping around the far side of the moon last month, on the ready to record meteoroid impact flashes on the lunar landscape. Their diligence was rewarded. The four crewmembers reported seeing several impact flashes — flickers of light created when a meteoroid hits the lunar surface and vaporizes. “These observations were made with the…
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Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next destination, after the moon and Mars?

May 8, 2026
After “re-booting” the moon and establishing a base there, followed by dispatching expeditionary crews to Mars, where should humanity go? Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan, the largest of Saturn’s many moons. That inaugural “Humans to Titan Summit” will make the case for an astronaut outing to that…
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