China Is About To Land On Earth’s ‘Mini-Moon’ — What To Know
Topline China is about to begin one of the most unusual asteroid exploration missions ever attempted. In early…
In an ancient Martian river channel, Perseverance drilled into a mudstone called Cheyava Falls and found tiny “leopard spot” minerals tangled with organic carbon — patterns that, on Earth, can be left behind when microbes consume organic matter, though scientists still can’t rule out non-living chemistry.
A drilled rock core from an ancient Martian river channel has given Perseverance scientists one of the mission’s…
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) Is Down 11.4% After New BlueBird Launches Expand Direct-To-Device Network Potential
In June 2026, AST SpaceMobile launched its next-generation BlueBird 8, 9, and 10 satellites and later confirmed that…
What happens at the edge of a black hole? Astronomers may be close to finding out
There is no sound in space, but black holes can still sing. When two black holes collide, their…
A Russian module called Zvezda has been venting the space station’s air through cracks since 2019 — losing nearly 2 kilograms a day before NASA auditors flagged it the highest safety risk aboard
The Zvezda service module, the Russian segment that has anchored the back end of the International Space Station…
Voyager 1 to reach 1 light-day from Earth on November 18
Artist’s concept shows Voyager 1 against a starry background. The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is currently the most…
How Many Starlink Satellites Can SpaceX Launch This Year?
Space Exploration Technologies’s (NASDAQ: SPCX) Starlink internet service is perhaps its most successful venture to date. This business…
Distant galaxy could produce universe’s most mysterious particles
A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth.…
Antenna array could provide protected tactical satellite communications in low-Earth orbit | MIT News
Preventing adversaries from interfering with communications is crucial to national security. Tactical satellite communications (SATCOM) focus on securing reliable…
Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b Rotates Backward to Orbit
Hot Jupiter exoplanets have completely changed how we look at the universe. This is because before the first…
The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn’t have survived that early
The James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less simple again. In a field originally…
Future astronauts may walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon
NASA is preparing to land astronauts near the Moon’s south pole, a region no crewed mission has ever…