Airbus Selects Vega C to Launch First Pléiades Neo Next Satellite
Credit: Airbus Airbus has tapped Avio to launch its first Pléiades Neo Next Earth observation satellite aboard a…
English Monk Identified Halley’s Comet 600 Years Before Halley
Getting your audio player ready… The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the…
The mass distribution in and around the Local Group
Figure 1 is a Hubble diagram. The points in blue show the 31 isolated galaxies used to constrain…
Vega C to launch Brazilian satellite
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Brazilian government agency will launch an Earth observation satellite on a Vega C rocket,…
The Rubin Observatory Will Rapidly Detect More Supernovae
In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that…
‘Time is of the essence’ to build a made-in-Europe space policy, French and German ministers say
“Time is of the essence” to quickly develop a European space policy that relies much more heavily on…
World’s first robot astronaut for space exploration program
Chinese humanoid robot maker Engine AI has unveiled plans to send a humanoid robot into space, aiming to…
EU’s answer to Starlink should start up in 2029, commissioner says
BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) – The European Union’s multi-orbit array of 290 satellites known as IRIS2 should be…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…
NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…
The HWO Must Be Picometer Perfect To Observe Earth 2.0
Lately we’ve been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA’s flagship telescope…
Astronaut sees sunset from space photo of the day for Jan. 27, 2026
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts can watch the sun “set,” not behind a horizon of mountains…