New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space Network
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio…
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes record 37th flight with Starlink satellites
The Starlink 10-49 mission deployed 29 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit, adding to SpaceX’s constellation of more…
Redditors Are Skeptical of SpaceX’s Orbital Data Centers. Are They Right?
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) wants to put AI compute in orbit, and plenty of Redditors on investment…
A Distant Stream of Stars May Offer New Clues to Dark Matter
Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material that…
Comet 220P McNaught Puts On An Encore Performance
Comet 220P flares back into binocular visibility. It has been a busy month for astronomy. In the midst…
Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new…
CesiumAstro raising more funds amid acquisition spree
TAMPA, Fla. — CesiumAstro is in the middle of a Series D funding round to support the phased-array…
On this day in space! Aug. 25, 1997: NASA launches Advanced Composition Explorer to track solar wind and so much more
On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling…
Polish startup Ares Shield hired to protect data center satellites with high-power microwave weapons
The final frontier is getting more and more contested, so satellite companies are investing in some self-defense. At…
NASA satellites ace world’s 1st ‘lost-in-space’ GPS-free navigation experiment
No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that. NASA’s Starling mission —…
NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon
NASA scientists say some microbes carried into space by human explorers may be able to survive in sheltered,…
What $1,088 Invested in SpaceX Could Be Worth by 2030
Eight dollars. That’s how much richer you’d be today if you’d bought eight shares of Elon Musk’s Space…