China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium
HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare…
Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
TOKYO — Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as…
An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Webb has produced two tentative hints of dimethyl sulfide—a gas produced mainly by marine microorganisms on Earth—but independent analyses dispute whether the molecule has been detected at all, leaving scientists divided over what the data mean.
A planet called K2-18b, 124 light-years away in the constellation Leo, has become the most closely watched world…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hauls Starlink satellites to orbit
A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg…
We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit…
Telstra outage, tourism slump and space junk | Australia Wide this week – ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Telstra outage, tourism slump and space junk | Australia Wide this week ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting…
Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
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The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird
A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeawaysStarlink’s 100,000 satellites…
NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, permanently silencing the most distant human-made object.
Nearly half a century after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switch at a…
Space Force Has a New Weapon to Blind Enemy Satellites
The Space Force added a new weapon to its arsenal, a device designed to blast electromagnetic beams to…
A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe
A supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to black holes that…