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In this photo provided by NASA, Helga and Zohar, two female manikins in the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment investigation, undergo post-flight payload inspections, January 17, 2023, inside the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. (Kim Shiflett/NASA via AP)
August 13, 2026, 5:03 am
Vest that US-Israeli startup helped make can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests
AstroRad vest, which was developed by StemRad and Lockheed Martin, is now displayed at Florida museum after being put on a manikin named Zohar during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot
By Marcia Dunn
Illustrative: An artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting its star (M. KORNMESSER/ESA/Hubble/AFP)
July 18, 2026, 6:21 pm
Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone
The rocky planet LHS 1140b, located 48 light-years away, may have liquid water on its surface; it opens a new window into the search for habitable worlds outside our Solar System
By ToI Staff
This image provided by NASA Monday, April 6, 2026, shows the Moon as seen from the Orion Spacecraft (NASA via AP)
April 7, 2026, 12:44 pm
Weizmann Institute helps map Moon’s shadowy sources of ice
As Artemis II loops around Earth’s satellite and NASA prioritizes ice sampling for a lunar water supply, Israeli and US scientists are examining poles’ ancient ice traps
By Sue Surkes
This image provided by NASA shows a view of Earth taken by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. (NASA via AP)
April 4, 2026, 6:15 am
Artemis II crew captures Earth’s blue beauty as they rocket to moon
NASA crew takes pictures of home through capsule window; by Friday afternoon, they were more than 110,000 miles from Earth, and are set to pass moon by Monday
By Marcia Dunn
Juno hovering above Jupiter’s south pole. (Visualization/Courtesy/NASA)
February 2, 2026, 3:55 pm
Deflated: Israeli scientists find Jupiter, though huge, is smaller than previously thought
Using data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say the gas giant is thinner and flatter than believed
By Diana Bletter
Weizmann Institute of Israel scientists, from left to right: Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam, Dr. Ofer Yaron, and Dr. Steve Schulze of Northwestern University. (Courtesy)
August 20, 2025, 11:22 pm
Team led by Israeli and American scientists discovers silicon and sulfur at supernova core
Weizmann Institute of Science and Northwestern University researchers say analysis of inner depths of star SN2021yfj confirms the theory that stars have heavier elements
By Diana Bletter
An image of interstellar object A11pI3Z captured on June 2, 2025. (David Rankin, Saguaro Observatory / AFP)
July 3, 2025, 10:07 am
Scientists find new interstellar object racing through Solar System
Third-ever confirmed visitor, dubbed 3I/Atlas and hurtling at 60 kilometers per second after likely being formed in distant star system, offers rare glimpse into far-out material
By AFP
A handout artist's impression released on April 17, 2025 by N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge, shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet 'hints' of the life outside this solar system. (Handout / University of Cambridge / AFP)
April 17, 2025, 4:20 pm
Astronomers say they’ve found strongest ever ‘hints’ of life beyond our solar system
British-US team detects ‘biosignatures’ on planet K2-18b, 124 lightyears from Earth, says it is ‘closest we have come to seeing a feature that we can attribute to life’
By Daniel Lawler
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA)
December 27, 2024, 12:09 pm
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by sun, sustaining 1,700ºF heat
Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, makes history, in first of three record-breaking fly-bys in effort to tackle scientific mysteries about earth’s closest star
By AFP
This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission (William Anders/NASA via AP, File)
September 20, 2024, 10:17 am
Asteroid set to temporarily become Earth’s ‘second moon’
Tiny asteroid will be pulled in by gravity between Sep. 29 and Nov. 25, however will not be discernible via basic telescopes; celestial object expected to return only in 2055
By ToI Staff
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman, September 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 13, 2024, 12:39 am
High above the Earth, Jewish tech entrepreneur performs first ever private spacewalk
‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,’ says Jared Isaacman after popping out of capsule to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit
By Marcia Dunn
Astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the vestibule between the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)
August 24, 2024, 9:41 pm
NASA says SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts because of risks with Boeing capsule
Having entered orbit for what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams now set to return to Earth only in February
By Marcia Dunn
Illustration of the sunshade being developed by Cool Earth at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in northern Israel. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2024, 9:57 pm
Israeli scientist proposes massive space sunshade to cut global temperatures by 1.5ºC
Yoram Rozen, head of Technion’s Space Research Institute, seeks $15 million to launch prototype; ‘If we can’t show that it can work technologically, then nobody else will do it”
By Sue Surkes
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
May 11, 2024, 7:57 am
Intense solar storm causes spectacular northern lights displays across the globe
Auroras seen in skies of US, north Europe and Australasia as result of most powerful solar storm in over 20 years; changes to Earth’s magnetic field could cause power disruptions
By Issam Ahmed
A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. (NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) - HubbleSite: gallery, release. Public domain)
March 27, 2024, 11:10 pm
Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova
Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole
By Ari Rabinovitz
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