Canada’s SBQuantum wins contract to supply ESA magnetometer
SAN FRANCISCO – Canada’s SBQuantum has won an €800,000 ($932,000) European Space Agency contract to deliver a prototype…
Astronomers spot first giant star eruption beyond the Solar System
For the first time, astronomers have watched a nearby star hurl an enormous burst of charged material into…
Is a ‘nearly interstellar comet’ connected to 3I/ATLAS? What we know
A newly discovered comet named C/2025 V1 (Borisov) is due to make its closest approach to Earth on…
How Scientists Are Making Space Food From Astronaut Pee
Outer space has incredible views but the food could use some work. There’s a long and storied history…
The International Space Station celebrates 25 years of human life in space. Here’s a look back at it
On October 31, 2000, three astronauts from the United States and Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan on a…
Europe’s NewAthena telescope to detect supermassive black holes at the edge of the universe
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) future space observatory, the NewAthena telescope, could detect an unprecedented number of supermassive…
How Voyaging to Mars Risks Harming an Astronaut’s Eyes – Bloomberg.com
How Voyaging to Mars Risks Harming an Astronaut’s Eyes Bloomberg.comSpaceflight alters brain fluid more in women, while men face…
D-Orbit and mhackeroni conduct in-orbit cybersecurity competition
SAN FRANCISCO – Italian space logistics company D-Orbit announced the conclusion Nov. 6 of CTRL+Space, Europe’s first in-orbit…
International Space Station nears its end. Inside NASA’s plan
Plans are underway to determine how best in the years ahead to retire and deorbit the aging International…
The South Atlantic Anomaly Is Growing—ESA Satellites Reveal New Concerns Over What That Could Mean for Spacecraft
A new model of the Earth’s magnetic field, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite…
Weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field keeps growing, satellites show
A weak spot in the Earth’s magnetic field is growing over the South Atlantic Ocean, according to more…
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 from orbit. Never mind that they…