Axelspace Released First Images Captured by GRUS-3 Earth Observation Microsatellites
Commercial operations targeted to begin within 2026 Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading developer and operator of microsatellites dedicated…
Western Romania to witness total solar eclipse on August 12
A total solar eclipse will be visible from large areas of continental Europe, including the western part of…
In February 1985, the Soviet space station Salyut 7 went silent and began tumbling with dead batteries, frozen instruments and frost covering its windows; four months later, two cosmonauts docked with the powerless 20-tonne station by hand, entered wearing gas masks and brought it back to life with flashlights and improvised wiring
In February 1985 the Soviet space station Salyut 7 stopped answering. The station was empty at the time,…
NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at…
In 2020 NASA installed a new female-friendly toilet on the International Space Station at a cost of about $23 million. The redesign was the first space toilet built specifically to work well for female as well as male astronauts, and 65 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the existing station toilet
$23 million is a big price tag for a toilet even if that figure covers two units, one…
SpaceX (SPCX) Is Down 14.7% After Starship Abort and Rising Scrutiny of Its Lofty Valuation
In mid-July 2026, SpaceX’s highly anticipated 13th Starship test flight was automatically aborted seconds before liftoff due to…
The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA’s confirmed exoplanet archive
The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing. Line up the planets by…
The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches
This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the…
NASA Reveals Near-Earth Asteroid 1998 SH2 Is an Active Comet
Have you ever happened to look at the night sky and wanted to know what is beyond its…
FCC Approves First Launch for Space Reflector Constellation
Reflect Orbital moves ahead with the company’s first Eärendil launch, ahead of concerns from the astronomical community. Move…
Jupiter’s moon Europa has more liquid water than Earth
For decades, scientists have searched for worlds beyond Earth that might contain the ingredients for life, and one…
Astronomers catch the tiny motion before a star forms
A cold, dark cloud about 550 light-years from Earth is beginning the slow process of becoming a star,…