China proposes laser-powered energy tower on moon to transmit wireless power
Researchers in China are proposing that the moon could become the first place where wireless power transmission is…
India’s Skyroot says it can build a space rocket a month as launch nears
Interview CEO targets full commercialization in 2027 after India’s 1st private orbital launch Skyroot CEO Pawan Chandana says…
July 2026 Satellite Puzzler – NASA Science
Every month, NASA Earth Observatory features a puzzling satellite image. The July 2026 puzzler appears above. Your ChallengeIdentify the location…
Scientists examining samples returned from asteroid Bennu found ribose and glucose inside — and with phosphate and every RNA nucleobase already detected in the same asteroid material, every chemical component needed to build RNA was present in the early solar system, long before life existed on Earth.
The Bennu sample is becoming less like a single asteroid story and more like a chemistry inventory from…
SES wins U.S. military agreement to provide managed Ku-band satellite connectivity for global missions
SES Space & Defense has won a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems…
Artemis II crew tearfully proposes a name for a crater on the moon
Tonight, when the Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman’s daughters go to bed, they can look at the moon…
What is the Kardashev scale used by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the…
The Sun ejects roughly a billion tons of charged plasma in a single coronal mass ejection — and it can cross 150 million kilometers to Earth in under 18 hours
A coronal mass ejection is the Sun throwing a piece of itself at the rest of the solar…
A red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, just 40 light-years from Earth, hosts seven Earth-sized planets — including three orbiting in the narrow zone where liquid water could potentially survive
TRAPPIST-1 is not impressive by the usual standards of stargazing. It is too faint to see with the…
Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe
Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe…
An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind
The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was…
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever
A company just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called…