Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing “Giga” satellites
A startup established three years ago to churn out a new class of high-power satellites has raised $250…
NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame
Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s…
A Rare Gourd – NASA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this…
A spider-like scar haunts Jupiter’s moon Europa — and scientists think they know why
A strange, spider-like scar on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may mark where salty water once surged up through…
NASA Tracks ‘Bus-Sized’ Asteroid Racing Toward Earth: Should We Be Worried?
NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds…
Space Force Unveils 7 Bizarre Themes to Name Its War Tech
In an effort to reinforce its identity as the youngest military branch, the U.S. Space Force is adopting…
SpaceX Quietly Removes $40-Per-Month Starlink Plan in the US
The cheapest Starlink plan, Residential 100Mbps, debuted last month for a surprisingly low $40 per month, but it…
Massive Stars Make Their Mark in Hubble Image
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The…
Satellite constellations could obscure most space telescope observations by late 2030s: ‘That part of the image will be forever lost’
Rapidly growing swarms of satellites around Earth are no longer just a nuisance for ground-based observatories — the…
Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Rapidly Approaching Earth
For months now, astronomers have been closely watching the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it rips through the…
NASA May Have Lost The MAVEN Mars Orbiter
When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet…
Scientists find key RNA component on an asteroid for the first time
A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material (Image…