VC’s space appetite outlives SpaceX’s IPO as Blue Origin eyes $10B raise
Anadolu/Getty Images Blue Origin is tapping outside investors for the first time, reportedly looking to raise $10 billion…
Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-breaking 36th time early on July 9
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and…
7,000 Galaxy Clusters, Hiding in Plain Sight
How do you weigh something you cannot see, hiding in light that is nearly as old as the…
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 model for coding, agentic tasks
July 8 (Reuters) – SpaceXAI on Wednesday launched the Grok 4.5 AI model, calling it the company’s most…
ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship
TOKYO — Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to…
Dance of death between binary stars leads to an unusual supernova
If the universe has one lesson for humanity, it is that everything ends. That includes stars, which too…
SpaceX racing to orbital data centers. Ways to play emerging technology
The next leg of the artificial intelligence boom may not be built entirely on Earth. SpaceX has paved…
Shoebox-sized ‘detector satellites’ could sniff out a nuclear bomb in space
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by…
Venus takes center stage with 2 easy-to-see sky shows this July. Here’s when and where to look
Between July 7 and July 17, Venus will put on two evening-sky shows: first passing close to Regulus,…
‘This is the future of spatial intelligence’: Vantor unveils stunning 3D satellite views of Earth (photos)
The American Earth-observation company Vantor maps Earth from space in 3D. The images are available in near-real time,…
The satellite industry’s most expensive problem isn’t in orbit
AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit as it advances plans for a…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope prepares for launch photo of the day for July 8, 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on…