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Behind every splashy exoplanet-discovery headline sits a quiet library that just keeps growing. In January 2026, it added 468 spectra at once — a 40% jump in its collection. SORABUMI explains why simply hoarding data is, itself, how science moves forward.
On August 30, 2026, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifts off from Kennedy Space Center with a field of view more than 100 times wider than Hubble's. We trace the one-way journey of a precision machine, built over more than a decade, riding a rocket it can never come back from.
Launch the best telescope in the world today, and you still can't photograph Jupiter as it looked a decade ago. Hubble, working since 1990, caught something no new instrument ever could: the outer winds of the Great Red Spot speeding up by as much as 8% between 2009 and 2020. SORABUMI explains why a telescope's worth isn't measured by how new it is, but by how long it has been watching.
Launched in 2004 at 600 km, NASA's Swift Observatory has sunk to about 400 km as atmospheric drag drags it down. Left alone, it would burn up on reentry by late 2026. Instead, a robotic servicer called LINK is being sent to grab it and push it back up — an unprecedented rescue. SORABUMI explains.
On June 9, 2026, NASA announced the four astronauts of Artemis III. None of them will set foot on the lunar surface. Instead, they'll spend about two weeks circling Earth, testing dockings with landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX. The actual landing has been pushed to Artemis IV in 2028. Here's a look at the unglamorous reality behind spaceflight: sometimes you need a dress rehearsal before the real thing.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on August 30, 2026. With a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble, it will simultaneously attack three of astronomy's biggest puzzles: dark energy, exoplanets, and galaxy evolution. Here's what's happening on the ground before it leaves.
In May 2026, NASA officially announced its plans to build a base at the lunar south pole. The goal has shifted from 'returning to the Moon' to 'staying there.' We break down the seven-year plan and what lunar living would actually require.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured detailed observations of Jovian lightning, confirming discharges with more than a million times the energy of Earth's. We look at 613 microwave pulses, the reason water behaves so differently in a hydrogen sky, and what the storm planet is still hiding.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 are shutting down instruments one by one as power dwindles by 4 watts every year. With only two science tools left, NASA is preparing a high-stakes maneuver called the 'Big Bang.'
In 2022, NASA slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and changed its orbit — the first time humanity had ever deflected a space rock. Now ESA's Hera mission is heading there to examine the aftermath. Here's how far planetary defense has come.
Tucked into an orbit that is neither the lunar surface nor Earth's backyard, Gateway is one of the stranger ideas in the Artemis program. Why build a small station out there at all? Here's a plain-language look at the NRHO, how Gateway differs from the ISS, and why it matters for reaching Mars.
For the first time in half a century, people flew to the vicinity of the Moon. Robots could have taken the same photos. So why send a crew? Artemis II's 10-day mission and its 7-hour lunar observation window force that question into sharp focus.
Discovered in 2025, 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. How do we know it came from outside the solar system? What makes it different from ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov? And why did ESA and NASA scramble to observe it so quickly? Here's what the data is telling us — and what it might unlock about planet formation across the galaxy.