Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
But flat-packed, stackable satellites allow operators to deliver more capability to orbit faster. Starship will take this to…
China’s Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon after One Billion-Kilometer Journey
On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth…
SpaceX positioned as “foundational enabler” of space economy, BofA says
SpaceX Corp (NASDAQ:SPCX) just picked up a bullish new voice on Wall Street as Bank of America initiated…
Rush Mission to Rescue a Space Telescope
High in the sky over the Pacific Ocean, a special mission has begun to save a valuable space…
Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million light-years away
Images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed new secrets about a nearby galaxy, leaving…
In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sediments can preserve surprisingly complex organic chemistry for billions of years.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has added a more detailed layer to one of the hardest questions in Mars science:…
Elon Musk’s Net Worth Falls by More Than $500 Billion After SpaceX Valuation
The billionaire entrepreneur reportedly lost around $508 billion in wealth within one month, marking one of the largest…
Ancient quasars add to a ‘major unsolved problem’ in astrophysics
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) – A quasar — among the universe’s most luminous and energetic…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Just Woke Up From a Long Nap Ahead of Exploring Beyond Pluto
It takes a long time to reach anything at the edge of our solar system, and sometimes even…
SpaceX crowding out competitors with tenfold AI satellite constellation increase
SpaceX has filed a new application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission asking for permission to launch and…
New Singapore space agency seeks to build up the country’s space industry
TOKYO — Singapore’s new space agency signed a cooperation agreement with its Japanese counterpart as part of its…
Proxima Centauri b is our closest known habitable-zone exoplanet, just over four light-years away, and it may be warm enough for liquid water if it has kept an atmosphere. But that “if” is enormous: its red-dwarf star blasts it with extreme radiation strong enough, in some models, to strip an Earth-like atmosphere away.
Proxima Centauri b has a claim no other known exoplanet can match. It orbits the nearest star to…