Crashes From Space Are Getting More Common, And No One’s Sure What To Do About It
Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target…
How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s…
Building The LEM’s Legs | Hackaday
If you built a car in, say, Germany, for use in Canada, you could assume that the roads…
Ramses: ESA’s mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis
Friday the 13th of April 2029 will be our lucky day. Apophis, a 375-metre-wide asteroid, will safely pass Earth at a…
China successfully launches new test satellite -Xinhua
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Shiyan-31 test satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center…
One to Two Starlink Satellites Burn Up in Earth’s Atmosphere Every Day and It’s Only the Beginning
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Look up on a clear night, and you might catch a strange kind of light…
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own…
SpaceX launches 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket : NPR
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Eric Gay/AP hide…
Momentus Signs $15 Million Global Agreement with Solstar Space
The three-year reciprocal services agreement provides a service value of up to $15 million for Momentus logistics, launch,…
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off 550 workers
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Monday that it will cut around 550 jobs — around 10% of its…
Mars orbiters capture closest images of rare comet 3I/ATLAS
In early October, astronomers spotted something ancient and mysterious gliding past Mars. It was not a spacecraft or…
Is low Earth orbit getting too crowded? New study rings an alarm bell
Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow safe…