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…
In 2026, the FCC authorized radio operations for Reflect Orbital’s first 18-metre space mirror, a single demonstration for a proposed 50,000-satellite system that one astronomy model says could raise the natural night-sky background by 200% to 300%
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized radio operations for Eärendil-1, a demonstration satellite built around a reflector measuring…
Sovereign space access for Germany and Canada: Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services sign contract to advance orbital launch capability from Spaceport Nova Scotia
Halifax/Munich, 07 July 2026 – Space company Isar Aerospace and spaceport operator Maritime Launch Services Ltd. (CBOE: MAXQ,…
Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to advance its revolutionary rocket engine design
Houston-based company Venus Aerospace announced today (June 8) the closing of its “Series B” financing round, which raised…
On this day in space! July 11, 1979: NASA’s abandoned Skylab space station falls to Earth
On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it…