China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium
HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare…
NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, permanently silencing the most distant human-made object.
Nearly half a century after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switch at a…
Space Force Has a New Weapon to Blind Enemy Satellites
The Space Force added a new weapon to its arsenal, a device designed to blast electromagnetic beams to…
FCC Grants Approval For Sun-Reflecting Space Mirror That’s Been Widely Criticized By Astronomers
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Reflect Orbital’s request to launch a demonstration satellite that can reflect sunlight…
Metallic space balls found on Australian beach
Mysterious metal spheres washed ashore on a northern Australia beach, and officials say the unidentified floating objects are…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeawaysStarlink’s 100,000 satellites…
Launching from 2 continents: Germany’s Isar Aerospace leases Canadian pad for $150 million
German company Isar Aerospace is expanding its operations overseas after signing an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Launch Services…
Waxing Gibbous Moon – NASA
The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from…
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth’s, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only place besides Earth known to have standing liquid on its surface,…
SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster test ahead of Flight 13 launch
It looks like SpaceX’s next Starship flight is on the horizon, and it may lift off sooner than…
NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations
And in this document, NASA has provided guidance. Quite a lot of it. Requirements are the key element…
SpaceX launch creates colorful ‘jellyfish’ in the night sky photo of the day for July 10, 2026
A “space jellyfish” cloud lit up the early morning sky following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. (Image credit:…