SpaceX Starship still floating 5 days after flight | Space photo of the day for July 29, 2026
SpaceX Starship still floating 5 days after flight | Space photo of the day for July 29, 2026

SpaceX continues to collect imagery of the vehicle as it floats in the Indian Ocean five days after its most recent flight test.

On this day in space! July 29, 1982: Soviet Salyut 6 space station falls to Earth
On this day in space! July 29, 1982: Soviet Salyut 6 space station falls to Earth

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth’s atmosphere along the way. Here’s why it mattered.

SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit in wake of Starship test flight (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday, July 25, 2026.

On this day in space! July 28, 1851: The 1st photo of a total solar eclipse was taken by a Prussian daguerreotypist
On this day in space! July 28, 1851: The 1st photo of a total solar eclipse was taken by a Prussian daguerreotypist

On July 28, 1851, the first-ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian daguerreotypist named Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. It changed solar astronomy.

Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)

The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well —and provided some amazing visuals, too. See the highlights here.

Rocket Lab to start launching missile-defense missions from Alaska under $266 million Space Force deal
Rocket Lab to start launching missile-defense missions from Alaska under $266 million Space Force deal

Rocket Lab just inked a $266 million deal with the U.S. Space Force to launch up to 18 suborbital missile-defense missions, most of them from Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex.

On this day in space! July 27, 1962: The 1st zero-g cosmonaut training flight took off on a Soviet jetliner
On this day in space! July 27, 1962:  The 1st zero-g cosmonaut training flight took off on a Soviet jetliner

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. Here’s why it mattered.

Are we overlooking signs of alien life that aren’t technological or biological? ‘Bread would be a signature of intelligence’
Are we overlooking signs of alien life that aren’t technological or biological? ‘Bread would be a signature of intelligence’

Between biosignatures and technosignatures lie noosignatures, and some scientists think they could help us find alien life someday.

Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel | Space photo of the day for July 27, 2026
Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel | Space photo of the day for July 27, 2026

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has experienced some serious wear and tear during its nearly 14 years on the Red Planet, as seen in new images of its wheels.

Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can’t stop them
Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can’t stop them

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly approve space projects that will change the night sky around the world. The international community can do very little against it.