Elon Musk’s latest scheme is a satellite catapult on the Moon
With his newfound focus on the Moon, Elon musk is making some wild new plans. In an xAI…
China tests crewed spacecraft abort and rocket recovery in major lunar milestone
HELSINKI — China took a major step forward in its lunar and human spaceflight programs late Tuesday with…
The dominance of Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and neighboring Kennedy Space Center hosted 109 launches in 2025, a record. (credit:…
Here’s Where You Can See It!
On February 17, 2026, a rare and dramatic annular solar eclipse, often referred to as the “ring of…
Night sky tonight — Find the stars Adhara and Mirzam shining with Sirius after dark on Feb. 11
Refresh 2026-02-11T10:53:25.526Z Wednesday, Feb. 11: Adhara and Mirzam (after dark) See Adhara and Mirzam on Feb. 11. (Image…
US-China Space Race Just Heated Up As Xi Jinping-Led Nation Wants Orbital Datacenters, Space Tourism
The race to dominate the burgeoning space-based AI compute sector, which outlines putting solar-powered AI satellites into orbit…
Scientists Launch Incredible Mission in Antarctica to Catch Mysterious Particles From Outer Space
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago has launched a groundbreaking experiment in search of ultrahigh-energy…
How a Single Martian Storm Triggered Massive Water Loss
Mars’ water disappeared somewhere, but scientists have been disagreeing for years about where exactly it went. Data from…
AI Helps Pinpoint the Moon’s First Soft Landing
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar…
Galaxy MoM-z14 confirmed as most distant object ever seen
Spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected. We…
General Galactic to test satellite powered only by water in space
Space startup General Galactic aims to fly a satellite using only water for in-orbit propellant. The 1,100-pound satellite…
Infleqtion and NASA to Fly the World’s First Quantum Gravity Sensor to Space
With more than $20 million in contracted mission funding to date, the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder Mission, Led…