Sunday is the longest day of the year for half the planet. A guide to the summer solstice
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
SpaceX Starfall Demo Flies Tuesday: Disk Capsule Bets on Orbital Manufacturing Scale
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on Tuesday, June 23, in a low-profile demo that…
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Saturn’s…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling…
Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
Astronomers have used a technique called echo mapping to detect hints that supermassive black holes, such as the…
Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
New launch pad in the works at Cape Canaveral. Space Launch Delta 45, the military unit that runs…
Why Redwire (RDW) Is Becoming More Than a Space Infrastructure Contractor Through Microgravity Research
Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW) is one of the fastest-growing space stocks to buy now. On June 4, Redwire said…
Elliott Smith finds immortality as an asteroid
An asteroid now bears the name of beloved musician Elliott Smith, thanks to one ambitious filmmaker. Elliott Smith…
Boeing tests quantum protocol in Q4S payload prior to launch
Engineers at Boeing demonstrated a key quantum protocol during ground testing of the payload for the Q4S mission,…
Asteroids may have helped create the conditions for life on early Earth; scientists find |
For decades, asteroid impacts have been seen as forces of pure destruction, the kind that wiped out the…
In late 2023, Voyager 1 began sending unreadable data from interstellar space. NASA engineers eventually traced the fault to corrupted memory in one of the probe’s computers, rewrote part of its 46-year-old software, transmitted the fix across more than 24 billion kilometres, and waited roughly 45 hours for confirmation that the patch had worked.
In late 2023, Voyager 1 stopped making sense. The spacecraft was still transmitting from interstellar space, but the…
What the satellite servicing economy can borrow from carbon credits
In January 2026 alone, the Federal Communications Commission authorized 15,000 Starlink Gen2 satellites. Starcloud has filed for 88,000…