Elon Musk Says His Goal Is for SpaceX to Be Worth More than the Entire Earth
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China’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon
The China National Space Administration’s asteroid probe Tianwen-2 successfully reached the asteroid Kamo’oalewa, which orbits the Sun in…
In June 2026, the James Webb telescope read the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121b separately and found one side hotter and stripped of water, the other cooler and possibly cloudy, on a world where it can rain liquid rock
The James Webb Space Telescope has tracked how the atmosphere of a distant gas giant changes from longitude…
Rocket Lab Just Unveiled a Game-Changing New Technology Worth Watching
Reusable rockets are no longer a novelty, but there is still one piece of almost every launch that…
China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium
HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
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NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, permanently silencing the most distant human-made object.
Nearly half a century after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switch at a…
We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit…
Space Force Has a New Weapon to Blind Enemy Satellites
The Space Force added a new weapon to its arsenal, a device designed to blast electromagnetic beams to…
FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite
TOKYO — The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability…
FCC Grants Approval For Sun-Reflecting Space Mirror That’s Been Widely Criticized By Astronomers
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Reflect Orbital’s request to launch a demonstration satellite that can reflect sunlight…
A Rapidly-Growing Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy Could Provide a Window Into the Early Universe.
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) recently made a…