Young crescent moon to meet Venus in evening twilight | Astronomy
Two celestial beauties line up on Friday when the young crescent moon meets brilliant Venus in the evening…
Perseid Meteor Shower Returns This Week Under An ‘Earthshine’ Moon
Topline Here comes a classic crescent moon-and-meteors week. Tuesday, July 14, sees a new moon — when our…
25 Year Old’s Big Dream: Manufacturing In Space
‘ISRO is planning to build a Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2030. So, our goal is to create a…
Japanese Astronomical Society ex-president Shigeru Ida joins China’s Westlake University
The universe teems with planets, yet their origins and evolution remain among science’s most enduring mysteries.Theoretical astrophysicist Shigeru…
China proposes laser-powered energy tower on moon to transmit wireless power
Researchers in China are proposing that the moon could become the first place where wireless power transmission is…
Scientists examining samples returned from asteroid Bennu found ribose and glucose inside — and with phosphate and every RNA nucleobase already detected in the same asteroid material, every chemical component needed to build RNA was present in the early solar system, long before life existed on Earth.
The Bennu sample is becoming less like a single asteroid story and more like a chemistry inventory from…
Korea’s next drug lab is in orbit
Korean biotech firms join global race to harness microgravity for drug discovery and manufacturing The International Space Station…
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…
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…
NASA chief replies to 10-year-old’s call to make Pluto a planet again
When 10-year-old Kaela Polkinghorn asked NASA to make Pluto a planet again, she never expected the agency’s top…
Exact time to see brilliant star-like object over Irish skies on Sunday night
Need to knowTonight, Sunday July 12, will see a brilliant star-like object blazing over Irish skies The International…
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…