Jessica Lockhart picks New Caledonia as a 2027 travel destination for Kiwis
Joining Lonely Planet felt like a natural extension of this work. Now, I commission our guidebooks for Australia,…
Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system
Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system Astronomers say they have…
SpaceX launches Transporter-18 rideshare mission
WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched its latest rideshare mission Oct. 1, carrying a wide variety of spacecraft even as…
Cassini Reveals Surprising Diversity in Salt Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
A new analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring shows that Enceladus’ salty ocean…
NATO Militaries Seek Satellite Imagery to Spot Threats Early: CEO
Demand for commercial satellite imagery is rising across NATO as the alliance seeks greater access to expand its…
Planet wins German federal contract for dedicated constellation services
PARIS – The German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) will acquire dedicated Earth-observation capacity from Planet Labs…
Astronomers discover a water-rich exoplanet that will be swallowed by its star
The number of new exoplanets discovered continues to grow, particularly thanks to observations from various space telescopes. But…
New NASA telescope seeks fate of the universe and ‘Earth twins’
NASA is set to launch its latest multi-billion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida’s Space Coast…
Friends That Invest’s Simran Kaur on leaving NZ to move to New York
“There are some complicated feelings around that when you don’t want the brain drain to happen, but then…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…