After a Breakout Quarter, Rocket Lab Is Starting To Look Like an Interesting SpaceX Rival
Quick Read Rocket Lab (RKLB) reported quarterly revenue up 64% year over year, with expanding gross margins and…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
Scientists studied rare meteorites that survived millions of miles to reach Earth and found a shortlist of asteroids worth mining
Fragile and chemically complex, carbonaceous meteorites rarely survive the long fall to Earth intact. When they do, they…
Indian Scientist Kuljeet Kaur Marhas Creates History, Becomes The First Indian Woman…
Kuljeet Kaur Marhas created history by becoming the first Indian woman elected Fellow of The Meteoritical Society, one…
Science breakthrough: NASA logs record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space weather events
NASA has logged a record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space-weather events. The longest solar radio burst…
Peak Milky Way viewing begins in Arab World
JEDDAH: The Arab world has entered a peak period for Milky Way observation, a window that will remain…
Astronomers find images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS taken before its official discovery hiding in Rubin Observatory data
It turns out interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope…
Intuitive Machines is buying a global ground-station network for $49.6 million after landing two probes on their sides — and the sequencing tells you which moats the CLPS contracting model rewards first
On the same week NASA opened bidding on its eighth Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order, the Houston-based…
Europe launches a new mission to image Earth’s magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement — the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a single agency
In a clean room in French Guiana, technicians are preparing a spacecraft called Smile — the Solar wind…
A Lyrid meteor from orbit
The Expedition 74 crew on the International Space Station turned into meteor chasers as Earth passed through a…
From Desi Arnaz to SpaceX: Understanding the rules of the modern economy
Since 2008, NPR’s popular “Planet Money” podcast has helped fans and listeners break down the complexities of the…
Webb Telescope Captures Glimpse Of Universe’s First Galaxies
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed one of the earliest galaxies ever seen, dating back…