Uranus Has A Mysterious New Companion, And It Might Even Be In A Cosmic Throuple
Between the orbits of Saturn and Neptune, there is a population of minor space bodies known as the…
SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather
TRACERS, short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will study a process known as magnetic reconnection.…
Chinese Satellite Pulverizes Starlink with a 2-Watt Laser from 36,000 KM Above Earth
Chinese researchers have made an impressive leap in satellite communication by using a 2-watt laser to transmit data…
“They Want to Break the Sky in Silence”: NASA’s X-59 Jet Sparks Outrage as Aviation Giants and Noise Activists Go to War
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The X-59 is designed to fly faster than sound without the disruptive sonic booms…
Starlink satellites significantly interfering with radio astronomy observations
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world’s biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly…
Why Isn’t China Catching Up With Elon Musk’s Starlink?
China’s two biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure…
The Milky Way brightens the moonless summer sky this week: Here’s where to look
Head away from city lights in late July to see the dense core of the Milky Way arcing…
2 Earth weather satellites accidentally spy on Venus
In a serendipitous turn of events, scientists have discovered that Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weather satellites, designed to…
China tightens quality oversight over commercial space projects
HELSINKI — China has introduced new rules to strengthen quality control and supervision across its growing commercial space…
T-Mobile Launches Its Cellular Starlink Service: What You Need to Know
After years of work, T-Mobile and SpaceX are ready to officially launch the cellular Starlink service, allowing smartphone…
NASA shares how it fixed spacecraft’s camera from 370 million miles away
JunoCam, the imaging device of the Juno spacecraft, encountered problems while orbiting Jupiter. NASA noticed a problem when…
NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects…