Nancy Grace Roman Telescope - FridayFunFact June 19th 2026 The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is NASA's next premier space telescope, named after NASA's first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman, who…

Artemis III Crew & Mission 12th June, 2026 Artemis III is the next step in the Artemis program, which will carry out a series of objectives in LEO (Low Earth…

The end of the MAVEN Mission 5th June 2026 MAVEN (otherwise known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission), was the first mission devoted to understanding the upper Martian…

Psyche Mars Flyby 29th May 2026 On the 15th May, 2026, the spacecraft Psyche had a flyby of Mars, to use it as a gravity assist to launch it towards…

MIR MIR was the International Space Station, before the International Space Station. It was built by the Soviet Union originally in 1986, and was intentionally de-orbited on 23rd March, 2001.…

Voyager 1's next Milestone 15th May, 2026. Upcoming this year, on the 15th November 2026 (roughly), Voyager 1 will reach a far enough distance, that it will take light 1…

The Oldest Functioning Satellite 8th May 2026 The oldest satellite that is still readily transmitting today is AMSAT-OSCAR 7, otherwise known as AO-7. It is a amateur radio satellite, constructed…

Gravitational Lensing May 1st, 2026 Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon, where something that has a large gravitational pull, such as a galaxy cluster, a supermassive black hole, or quasars, warps…

Neutrinos in the Sun 24th April 2026 Neutrinos in the Sun is an image of the sun physically shot through the earth. Neutrinos are a form of particle that pass…