Asteroid-mining company AstroForge to launch world’s 1st totally autonomous spacecraft in 2027
AstroForge plans to make spaceflight history next year. The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on…
A Planet 63 Light-Years Away Appears To Have Northern Lights. A Telescope In South Africa Picked Up Their Radio Signal
A Planet 63 Light-Years Away Appears To Have Northern Lights. A Telescope In South Africa Picked Up Their…
Chinese launch startup Space Epoch raises $343 million
HELSINKI — China’s Space Epoch has secured major new funding as it aims to have its Yuanxingzhe-1 rocket…
UK to launch military squadron to protect satellites in space | Defence policy
A new military unit dedicated to defending satellites, protecting services people need on Earth and potentially supporting offensive…
SKA May Detect Magnetic Fields on Distant Exoplanets
Studying exoplanets has provided astronomers with a plethora of insights regarding what characteristics need to be searched to…
Boom Year for Desert Blooms
Arid shrublands in Western Australia were bursting with life in late austral winter 2026, when a profusion of…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels…
Debrief: VLEO Missions Surge As Interest In Earth’s Lowest Orbit Booms
Debrief: VLEO Missions Surge As Interest In Earth’s Lowest Orbit Booms | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main…
Scientists find weird exoplanet that orbits its star in the wrong direction
Scientists have found that a distant world has a real rebellious streak, outwardly defying its red dwarf host…
On this day in space! Sept. 22, 2006: Japan launches Hinode solar observatory to study the sun’s magnetic field
On Sept. 22, 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a sun-observing satellite called Hinode, or Solar-B. It…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory detects Aquarius IV, one of the smallest and faintest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way ever seen
In one of the first major discoveries from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, scientists have revealed…
Astronaut spies city lights, auroras and star trails from the ISS photo of the day for Sept. 22, 2026
City lights in Central Asia sparkle in this photo snapped from the ISS. (Image credit: NASA/Anil Menon) City…