Trump Heaps Praise on Gwynne Shotwell for SpaceX Stock Gift
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to thank SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell for her and her husband’s…
Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
But flat-packed, stackable satellites allow operators to deliver more capability to orbit faster. Starship will take this to…
Webb Reveals Hidden Heart of Centaurus A
Celebrating four years of science, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has pierced the thick dust of the…
Rush Mission to Rescue a Space Telescope
High in the sky over the Pacific Ocean, a special mission has begun to save a valuable space…
In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sediments can preserve surprisingly complex organic chemistry for billions of years.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has added a more detailed layer to one of the hardest questions in Mars science:…
Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to scale rocket engine technology
WASHINGTON — Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based propulsion startup developing rocket engines for hypersonic flight and space transportation, said…
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation
Science Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken itself…
SpaceX crowding out competitors with tenfold AI satellite constellation increase
SpaceX has filed a new application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission asking for permission to launch and…
Proxima Centauri b is our closest known habitable-zone exoplanet, just over four light-years away, and it may be warm enough for liquid water if it has kept an atmosphere. But that “if” is enormous: its red-dwarf star blasts it with extreme radiation strong enough, in some models, to strip an Earth-like atmosphere away.
Proxima Centauri b has a claim no other known exoplanet can match. It orbits the nearest star to…
Rocket Lab’s Iridium Deal Signals New Era of Space Industry Consolidation – Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB), Iri
In June, Rocket Lab agreed to buy all outstanding Iridium shares for $54 each in a cash-and-stock deal…
Deep space software upgrade for Hera’s asteroid visit
Space Safety 08/07/2026 612 views 16 likes Operating across 140 million km of space, the control team for…
Rejected by NASA at 14, she took a work placement cleaning a space toilet instead; today, she is leading Mars exploration teams |
Rejected by NASA at 14, she took a work placement cleaning a space toilet instead; today, she is…