A private company will build and launch NASA’s next Mars orbiter in 2028 — and it’s not SpaceX
NASA has announced a new commercial partnership for the next satellite headed to the Red Planet. California-based Relativity…
An exoplanet with a daytime temperature hot enough to vaporize iron has methane on its nightside because of an atmospheric circulation that should not be able to exist at that heat
A team led by Thomas Evans-Soma of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg has published observations of…
Elon Musk says his trillionaire SpaceX IPO is ‘inspiring’ for humanity. It could help smash US democracy as we know it
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India’s Jio lays out sovereign LEO constellation plan ahead of IPO
TAMPA, Fla. — Jio Platforms, which owns India’s largest telco, is looking to lease broadband capacity from global…
MDA Space to buy Blue Canyon Technologies to gain foothold in U.S. market
WASHINGTON — MDA Space is buying smallsat manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) for $620 million, giving the Canadian…
Arvinder Bahal, first Sikh space traveller, now aims to set foot on US’ star attraction ‘The Wave’
Arvinder Singh Bahal, 81, the first Sikh to have been to space as a tourist, second person in…
NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars
Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA’s Aeolus…
Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher
During a recent field test in the Colorado desert, a four-wheeled rover traveled across 16 miles (25 kilometers)…
AST SpaceMobile Midland TX satellite launch reaches orbit
AST SpaceMobile saw three of its Midland-manufactured satellites successfully launched into low Earth orbit early Tuesday, June 17.…
‘No one thought it was going to be possible.’ A space telescope is falling out of space. This is NASA’s daring plan to save it.
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — For over 20 years, NASA’s Swift space observatory has been conducting prolific science in…
A Vintage, Last-of-Its-Kind Aircraft Will Launch NASA’s Swift Rescue Mission
A space telescope is falling to Earth, but NASA has a bold plan to rescue it before it’s…
Astronomers Want to Build a Swarm of Telescopes to Find LIFE
Current plans for flagship telescopes in the 2040s are focused on answering a simple question – are we…