Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Chinese astronauts reveal new details of damaged Shenzhou spacecraft

Chinese astronauts reveal new details of damaged spacecraft | Spotlight: Lego 3-in-1 Space Exploration Telescope | Where to see the total lunar eclipse on March 3
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February 24, 2026
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Chinese astronauts reveal new details of damaged spacecraft
Chinese astronauts reveal new details of damaged spacecraft
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Hey, Space Fans! Welcome to your daily dose of space from Space.com and today our top story is all about China's recent Shenzhou 20 astronauts, who revealed that the spacecraft damage that left them "stranded" on the Tiangong space station was more serious than we initially thought. Our Space Insider columnist Leonard David has the full story.

But don't stop there! We've also got a guide on what to expect for next week's Blood moon eclipse, Artemis 2 rollback updates and a fun take on what it would really take to live on Mars below.
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Space deal of the day
 
Spotlight: Lego 3-in-1 Space Exploration Telescope
Spotlight: Lego 3-in-1 Space Exploration Telescope
(Kim Snaith)
When it comes to Lego and space, it seems like spaceships and NASA shuttles and space stations get all the glory. But that's not so with this adorable 3-in-1 Lego Creator set that puts the solar system in sight with a spot-on telescope model. Here's our review.
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Skywatching
 
Where to see the total lunar eclipse on March 3
Where to see the total lunar eclipse on March 3
(WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)
The March 2026 total lunar eclipse will bring a dramatic blood moon to skies across North America, Australia, New Zealand and eastern Asia — if you know where to look. But don't worry, we've done the work for you.
 
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Spaceflight
 
NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket rollback set for Feb. 25
TOPSHOT - One of the massive RS-25 engines for NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is displayed near the countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 20, 2026. NASA performed their second wet dress rehearsal prior to sending four astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA officials said they are targeting March 6 for the crewed flight to the moon. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images)
(Gregg Newton/Getty Images)
You might have been expecting NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket to roll back into its hangar today (honestly, so were we), but NASA has punted for a day. The rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building for the Artemis 2 rocket is now set for no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 25. Here's what we know.
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Science & Astronomy
 
Warped starlight in spacetime could find hidden black holes
Warped starlight in spacetime could find hidden black holes
(Max Planck Institute)
If you're looking for something truly far out, here's something new from scientists on the hunt for binary black holes: Gravitational lenses of warped spacetime just might reveal twin black holes before gravitational waves ever do. It's a wild idea, and these scientists explain it all here.
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Satellites see bomb cyclone hit northeast US with snow
Satellites see bomb cyclone hit northeast US with snow
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In case you missed it, we had a blizzard hit Space.com's home offices here in New York City (which also affected the entire US Northeast) and satellites were key in tracking the storm. Here, we found some of the most striking views of the storm from space.
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Entertainment
 
Can you really survive on Mars? What sci-fi gets wrong
Can you really survive on Mars? What sci-fi gets wrong
(20th Century Studios)
It may have felt as cold as Mars during the US winter storm this week, but what if we REALLY lived on the Red Planet? Science fiction has had some great ideas of what that would look like (ahem, The Martian), but we put that and other film ideas to an astrophysicist to see what worked and what doesn't.
 
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Today in Space
 
Space photo of the day: Stars carve egg-shaped nebula
Space photo of the day: Stars carve egg-shaped nebula
(ESO/G. Tomassini et al.)
Today's space photo of the day cooks up a pretty view. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telesope captured this view of an egg-shaped binary star system inside an orange cocoon. The result is a stunning space image and that's no yoke! (Okay, that's enough for the puns, see how the photo was made here.)
 
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On this day: The first pulsar is found!
Miss Jocelyn Bell', 1968. A photograph of Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory at Cambridge University, taken for the Daily Herald newspaper in 1968. /nJocelyn Bell studied physics at Glasgow University and entered Cambridge University as a graduate student, assisting Anthony Hewish with his research on quasars. /nIn 1967, having analysed hundreds of metres of print-outs from a radiotelescope she had helped to construct, Bell noted signals that were too fast and regular to come from quasars. After ruling out 'little green men', she discovered the signals must come from pulsars, later identified with neutron stars. /nIn 1974, Anthony Hewish and Sir Martin Ryle were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics with Hewish honoured for the discovery of pulsars. It is argued that Bell should have received or at least shared in the Prize. /nThis photograph is from the Daily Herald Archive, a collection of over three million photographs. The archive holds work of international, national and local importance by both staff and agency photographers. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images)
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For today's space history flashback, we're going back in time to 1968, when Jocelyn Bell - then an astronomy grad student - made a stunning discovery: the first known pulsar. See how she did it here.
 
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