Airbus starts work on at least 66 IRIS² satellites to anchor Europe’s sovereign military communications network from 2029
Airbus Defence and Space has signed an initial contract to design and build the first layer of satellites…
USA, the stars and astronomy – from the revolution to beyond the Civil War, how America’s history is intertwined with the Universe
Why does the American flag contain stars? Why do we call actors and sportspeople ‘stars’? Eran Shalev argues…
Astronomers looked back in time and found a monster 5,000 times bigger than our Galaxy. And it’s packed full of dark matter
Astronomers have peered back into the early Universe to a time shortly after the Big Bang and discovered…
APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
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Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX will launch a secret mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch…
New Revelations About the Origin of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Ever since 3I/ATLAS buzzed through the Solar System, swinging by Earth and then looping around the Sun, scientists…
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
Canada’s first satellite carried an ingenious answer to a basic packaging problem. Alouette I needed long antennas to…
Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot this year are stepping…
International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary
Celebrations of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier. Among the science…
This ‘impossible’ black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
A “forbidden” merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought.…
Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
Using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to…