ESA – Rocket ignition that resonates
Enabling & Support 04/02/2026 295 views 10 likes In brief The Exploration Company has tested a resonance igniter…
Photographer captures rare aurora over Brazil during intense geomagnetic storm (photo)
The southern lights captured from Brazil on Jan. 19. (Image credit: Egon Filter) A rare aurora appeared briefly…
Space telescopes at light speed
Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A 60-Meter Asteroid Is Headed for the Moon, What Will Happen to Earth?
A 60-meter-wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, could collide with the Moon in December 2032, offering scientists an unprecedented chance…
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…