Forbes Daily: SpaceX Rallies As Institutional Investors Reveal Stakes
Elizabeth Stein went from selling muffin mix out of her apartment to closing one of the largest recent…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
(This is Part 2 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read Part…
APOD: 2026 August 18 – Perseids from Perseus
Explanation: This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was absent from lighting up Earth’s…
It’s official – Earth’s spin is slowing down. Here’s what it means for the future of our planet
If modern life makes you feel as though the days are dragging on, science can offer you a…
Japan launches second US military payload to monitor space above Indo-Pacific
WASHINGTON — Japan has launched the second of two long-planned US Space Force orbital neighborhood watch sensors on…
NASA tests first-of-its-kind spacecraft that navigates without GPS
NASA’s Starling mission has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind navigation system that lets a spacecraft determine its position in orbit…
Rocket Lab Onboarded to U.S. Space Force’s $981M NITE-STAR
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in…
NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the…
MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main sequence…
Using Starlink’s Satellites To Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across…