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…
Jaw-dropping raw footage shows spacecraft ripping through the atmosphere as it reenters Earth at Mach 25
Space exploration continues to quite literally hit new highs, and this footage shows a spacecraft zooming back down…
Mars Just Got a Whole Lot More Habitable, Thanks to These Weird Earth Creatures!
Life from Earth surviving the harsh conditions of Mars? New research suggests it’s possible, but only if you’re…
The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Bring a ‘Ring of Fire.’ How to Maximize Its Power in the Year of the Fire Horse
Eclipses—both lunar eclipse and solar eclipse—make us feel as though it’s now or never. The truth, however, is…
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: 'It looks nothing like what we predicted' – Space
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: ‘It looks nothing like what we predicted’ SpaceNASA Webb…
NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room with the SLS rocket
The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old, and it continues to…