NASA Astrobiology Update 20 August 2025
NASA Astrobiology Update 20 August 2025 The Astrobiology Program is hosting a virtual NASA Astrobiology Update on Wednesday,…
Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches for 3rd time ever, sending weather satellite to orbit
Europe’s Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather…
Deep-space radar in Australia begins tracking satellites for AUKUS partners
WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in Western Australia, built under a trilateral partnership between the United…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Could Intercept 3I/ATLAS as it Approaches Jupiter
Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar…
Pale Blue teams up with Mitsubishi Electric to advance water propulsion
TAMPA, Fla. — Japanese water propulsion startup Pale Blue is exploring jointly developing systems with Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric,…
NASA IXPE’s ‘Heartbeat Black Hole’ Measurements Challenge Current Theories
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged…
Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring
Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion…
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Seen in Stunning New Hubble Image : ScienceAlert
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our Solar…
The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter
Blue Origin designs and manufactures heavy-lift rockets, transporters, landers, and orbiters to explore the Red Planet efficiently and…
Virgin Galactic’s new Delta class space plane could fly as soon as fall 2026
Virgin Galactic is deep into development of its new Delta Class suborbital space planes, with both research and…
Astronaut catches gigantic jet on camera
Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right:…
SpaceX rival AST SpaceMobile soar on report of satellite deployment
Jaque Silva | Lightrocket | Getty Images Satellite designer AST SpaceMobile said it’s preparing to deploy nearly five…