Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up
Getting around space, as it turns out, is kind of a big deal. On Tuesday, Impulse Space, a…
A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals
Astronomers have traced a mysterious type of repeating cosmic signal to an unusual pair of stars, providing the…
Firefly Aerospace (FLY) Is Down 6.1% After MoonFall Subcontract Win And Equity Offering – What’s Changed
In late May 2026, Firefly Aerospace completed a follow-on equity offering of 12,000,000 common shares at US$48 each,…
A lonely monkey to the dark side of the Moon: Nine of the most striking images of 2026 so far
A photo taken in February at the Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Japan, of Punch, a baby Japanese…
Scientists listen to the ‘heart’ of our Sun – and find mysterious behaviour
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
NASA abandons ‘core module’ concept for commercial space station development
WASHINGTON — NASA is withdrawing a proposal to revamp its strategy for transitioning from the International Space Station…
‘Heavy as an elephant’: Meteor causes wide speculation across US
When the double boom rang out in New England over the weekend, shaking homes and sending pets fleeing,…
Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88
A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the…
Pulsed plasma tech can enable restartable solid rocket motors
The Aerospace Corporation has been advancing a concept for a restartable solid rocket motor (RSRM), a propulsion configuration…
Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints
As astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars, sustaining human life far from Earth will…
Shockwaves from dying stars may sculpt ‘cosmic wagon wheel’ stellar nurseries, simulations reveal
Some of the galaxy’s most spectacular stellar nurseries resemble giant cosmic wagon wheels, with spoke-like structures that scientists…
When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds — and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth
Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft flew alongside Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and analysed the gas…