SpaceX Vaults To Top Of The List As 23 Companies Join Unicorn Board In December
The momentum of new unicorn creation picked up in the final months of 2025, with the fourth quarter…
Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract
Space is an increasingly crowded place thanks to the constant influx of new satellites, and it’s only to…
Exotrail and Astroscale France join forces to build deorbiting capability for LEO
BRUSSELS — Exotrail, a French company specializing in multi-orbit satellite mobility and focused on LEO service vehicles, together…
Airbus Selects Vega C to Launch First Pléiades Neo Next Satellite
Credit: Airbus Airbus has tapped Avio to launch its first Pléiades Neo Next Earth observation satellite aboard a…
English Monk Identified Halley’s Comet 600 Years Before Halley
Getting your audio player ready… The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the…
The mass distribution in and around the Local Group
Figure 1 is a Hubble diagram. The points in blue show the 31 isolated galaxies used to constrain…
Vega C to launch Brazilian satellite
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Brazilian government agency will launch an Earth observation satellite on a Vega C rocket,…
World’s first robot astronaut for space exploration program
Chinese humanoid robot maker Engine AI has unveiled plans to send a humanoid robot into space, aiming to…
‘Time is of the essence’ to build a made-in-Europe space policy, French and German ministers say
“Time is of the essence” to quickly develop a European space policy that relies much more heavily on…
The Rubin Observatory Will Rapidly Detect More Supernovae
In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that…
Astronaut sees sunset from space photo of the day for Jan. 27, 2026
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts can watch the sun “set,” not behind a horizon of mountains…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…