A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
When Senra CEO Jordan Black was a SpaceX engineer, he took on the job of scaling up the…
Ракета SpaceX Falcon 9 здійснила 600-й успішний політ
Elon Musk’s company has once again confirmed its status as a revolutionary force in the field of astronautics,…
APOD: 2026 July 15 – Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert
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Not one eclipse this summer – but two! Get ready for a solar eclipse, a Blood Moon and shooting stars all in the same month
August 2026 is set to be a pretty good month for astronomy. On 12 August 2026, a total…
NASA selects 41 space technologies for future Moon and Mars exploration
NASA has chosen 41 technology proposals from 37 American companies to help develop the capabilities needed for future…
Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Astronomers have directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems. Every system lies within…
Building a long-term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it
Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026. The Artemis II mission took a crew of…
Blind Spot Indicators for Space: Methodologies for Assessing the Competitive Balance Between the United States and China
The ability of the United States to fight in and through space has disproportionately magnified the effectiveness of…
China used a giant net to land a reusable rocket. Does the idea have legs?
China’s successful recovery of a reusable rocket has sparked debate among aerospace experts over whether its unconventional approach…
The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day
Credit: FCC/Reflect Orbital The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an…
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion kilometres — but just as it returned the first close-up image, new evidence challenged the leading theory that Kamoʻoalewa is a fragment blasted from the Moon
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has reached Kamoʻoalewa and returned the first close-range image of the small asteroid that keeps…
Astronomers are Hunting Down the Elusive Population III Stars
It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III…