Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders
WASHINGTON — NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through a commercial services program, including…
Harvard reveals $2.2B SpaceX stake after Elon Musk company IPO
SpaceX stock rallies following CEO Elon Musk’s reveal of the new xAI Grok 4.6 model. Siebert Financial CIO…
The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn’t really about a discovery, it’s about a…
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter of Mars’s history.
China’s Zhurong rover crossed a thin layer of flat, hydrated rocks in southern Utopia Planitia. New analysis argues…
SpaceX to launch Globalstar mission from Florida’s Space Coast
SpaceX to launch Globalstar mission from Florida’s Space Coast BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — SpaceX will attempt to launch…
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
BlackSky builds Gen-3 satellites ahead of sovereign orders, targeting one-year delivery for government intelligence customers
BlackSky Technology is producing more than 20 Gen-3 satellites, including unallocated spacecraft that could be assigned to future…
The idea that Earth is the Solar System’s ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean’s volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…
Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths – BBC
Solar eclipse in the South West: Pac-man to Shinto myths BBC‘The colander worked best!’ Guardian readers share their experience…
APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies…
Perseid meteor shower puts on light show in night sky over North Bay
The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions…
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…