ESA – Rocket ignition that resonates
Enabling & Support 04/02/2026 295 views 10 likes In brief The Exploration Company has tested a resonance igniter…
Excitement grows around the six-planet parade in February 2026. Here’s what we’ll really see
Cast your mind back to February 2025 and you’ll likely remember the seven-planet parade that was visible in…
‘Behemoth star,’ previously thought to be dying, is ‘rising from the ashes’ like a pheonix
One of the universe’s largest stars, previously predicted to be in the throes of a violent supernova death,…
Life-friendly molecules are leaking out of Jupiter’s giant moon Europa, Galileo images hint
Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa appears to have life-friendly molecules on its surface. Al Emran, a researcher with NASA‘s…
Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race
In the consumer electronics playbook, custom silicon is the final step in the marathon: you use off-the-shelf components…
NASA satellite watches January’s polar vortex photo of the day for Feb. 4, 2026
After a major winter storm swept across the country in late January, a prolonged surge of Arctic air…
China Provides Glimpse of Colossal Orbital Aircraft Carrier
Last weekend, a China Central Television YouTube channel shared a video showing off some recent developments in autonomous…
Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth’s darkest sky gets cancelled
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories…
Jaw-dropping raw footage shows spacecraft ripping through the atmosphere as it reenters Earth at Mach 25
Space exploration continues to quite literally hit new highs, and this footage shows a spacecraft zooming back down…
US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying neptunium, a rare radioactive element. It serves as the…
Asteroid Nuking Could Save Earth and It’s No Longer Just Sci-Fi!
In the ever-growing concern about asteroid collisions with Earth, a new study published in Nature Communications offers a…
The Northern Lights May Be Visible This Week Due to Intense Solar Activity
Key Points A surge in solar activity, including an X8.3-class solar flare from fast-growing sunspot Region 4366—has triggered…