ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship
TOKYO — Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to…
NASA begins funding hardware for ‘Skyfall’ Mars helicopter mission
NASA’s nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture…
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…
SpaceX racing to orbital data centers. Ways to play emerging technology
The next leg of the artificial intelligence boom may not be built entirely on Earth. SpaceX has paved…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space
In late June, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft woke up from a nearly year-long slumber at a distance of…
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…
Shoebox-sized ‘detector satellites’ could sniff out a nuclear bomb in space
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by…
Venus takes center stage with 2 easy-to-see sky shows this July. Here’s when and where to look
Between July 7 and July 17, Venus will put on two evening-sky shows: first passing close to Regulus,…
The US Space Force just got a new electromagnetic weapon to jam adversary satellites
The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that can blast…
‘This is the future of spatial intelligence’: Vantor unveils stunning 3D satellite views of Earth (photos)
The American Earth-observation company Vantor maps Earth from space in 3D. The images are available in near-real time,…
Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space rocket company Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation…
The satellite industry’s most expensive problem isn’t in orbit
AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit as it advances plans for a…