56+ min ago  (350+ words) A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, tumbling through space since January 2025, will violently crash into the Moon at 8,700 km/h on August 5, 2026. A multi-ton piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on a definitive collision course with the Moon. Independent…...

13+ min ago  (590+ words) A U.S. spacecraft took the first-ever close-up image of the Moon on July 31, 1964, in black and white. It showed the lunar surface in remarkable detail and gave humanity the first look at our closest neighbor up close. Since then, we have…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (142+ words) Daily FT Monday Jul 20, 2026 Iconic books: Long before US astronaut Neil Armstrong took “one small step” that became “a giant leap for humankind”, generations of readers had already travelled there in the pages of Hergé’s Destination Moon (1953) and its sequel…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago  (217+ words) It all started with two PVC pipes for Sarath Prabhav. Yet, the moon kept calling him. “I experienced a high as I slowly began discovering the details — the craters, the hills, and so on,” he says. Sarath’s fascination deepened at…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (688+ words) Travel And Tour World China Sends C919 Beyond Its Borders as Air China Begins Daily Beijing Ulaanbaatar Service, Marking a Major Breakthrough for Domestic Aircraft Manufacturing, Regional Connectivity and International Aviation Expansion from August Published on July 20, 2026 Image generated with Ai…...

3+ min ago  (335+ words) The glowing displays mark the return of one of summer’s most beautiful and unusual astronomical phenomena. Here’s everything you need to know about noctilucent clouds — and when to see them from the northern U.S. Often referred to as “night-shining…...

27+ min ago  (646+ words) An asteroid shattered near Jupiter’s gravitational gateway 800 million years ago; scientists say the debr The Times of India...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (372+ words) Space exploration sometimes has consequences that are not immediately apparent. According to NASA scientists, a piece of rocket could collide with the Moon in early August. In January 2025, around a year and a half ago, Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched…...

15+ hour, 16+ min ago  (619+ words) As NASA pushes forward with its Artemis program and plans for a sustained human presence on the Moon, the agency is preparing for a groundbreaking scientific milestone: conducting the first controlled combustion experiment on the lunar surface. The experiment, known…...

8+ hour, 42+ min ago  (269+ words) Generate an API key to access the KeepTrack API with higher rate limits (2,000 req/hr vs 60 free). Every orbital and deep-space launch attempt of 1968, successes and failures alike, drawn from the GCAT launch catalog. Data current as of 2026-07-20. 1968 saw 128 orbital…...