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An illustration featuring a selection of tech to level up your summer 2026.

The Best Tech to Level Up Summer 2026

Stay cool and enjoy the long, sunny days ahead with these gadgets to upgrade your life this summer and beyond.

Other Gadgets Kyle Barr and James Pero Jun 25

Concept art of the LINK robot giving NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope an orbital “reboost.”

NASA Launches Space Robot to Save ‘Multitool’ Orbital Satellite From a Fiery Death

NASA’s never-before-attempted plan to move a sensitive scientific satellite into a safer orbit has faced a week of delays—but it’s still go for launch.

Space & Spaceflight Matthew Phelan Jul 2

Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center

A new paper tries to show how 'gravastars' might mimic black holes without breaking relativity.

Space & Spaceflight Gayoung Lee Jul 1

The faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way.

Rubin Observatory Begins Its 10-Year Survey of the Universe

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will create the most comprehensive record of the universe to date.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Jul 1

This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile, over a period of just one hour. It is a stack of a time-lapse video taken on 15 October 2025 about two hours after sunset. A few streaks are caused by planes, and can be easily identified by their blinking-coloured lights, but most trails are due to satellites.

ESO Study Finds That No More Than 100,000 Satellites Should Orbit Earth

SpaceX alone wants to launch 1 million satellites to orbit, far exceeding the proposed limit.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Jul 1

The Mother of All Deep Space Radio Telescopes Is Going Up in the Nevada Desert

Caltech says its Deep Synoptic Array will be larger and 100-times faster than any radio telescope ever constructed.

Space & Spaceflight Matthew Phelan Jun 15