Saturn’s Energy is Out of Balance June 25, 2024Saturn’s Energy is Out of Balance By Mark Thompson Earth releases about as much energy out into space as it absorbs, arriving at a therma...Read More
Falcon Heavy launches GOES-U weather satellite June 25, 2024Falcon Heavy launches GOES-U weather satellite By Jeff Foust A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off June 25 carrying the final spacecr...Read More
Another Strike Against Primordial Black Holes as an Explanation for Dark Matter June 25, 2024Another Strike Against Primordial Black Holes as an Explanation for Dark Matter By Evan Gough The quest to understand dark matter has tak...Read More
Do We Now Have an Accurate Map of Nearby Stars? June 25, 2024Do We Now Have an Accurate Map of Nearby Stars? By Evan Gough If the Sun has a stellar neighbourhood, it can be usefully defined as a 20 ...Read More
NASA Doesn't Know When Starliner Will Return From Orbit June 24, 2024NASA Doesn't Know When Starliner Will Return From Orbit By Nancy Atkinson After helium leaks and thruster problems with Boeing’s Star...Read More
Skynopy raises funds for scalable ground station network June 24, 2024Skynopy raises funds for scalable ground station network By Jason Rainbow Skynopy has raised $3.1 million to break into the ground sate...Read More
Exercise examines response to long-term asteroid impact threat June 24, 2024Exercise examines response to long-term asteroid impact threat By Jeff Foust A recent planetary defense exercise highlighted a differen...Read More
China’s state-owned SAST performs reusable rocket test June 24, 2024China’s state-owned SAST performs reusable rocket test By Andrew Jones SAST conducted China's highest altitude launch and landing t...Read More
Astronomers See a Black Hole Wake Up from its Ancient Slumber June 23, 2024Astronomers See a Black Hole Wake Up from its Ancient Slumber By Carolyn Collins Petersen Four years ago, the supermassive black hole hid...Read More
Chang’e-6 heads for Earth with first-ever lunar far side samples June 23, 2024Chang’e-6 heads for Earth with first-ever lunar far side samples By Andrew Jones China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft is on its way to Earth to...Read More
Venus is the Perfect Place to Count Meteors June 22, 2024Venus is the Perfect Place to Count Meteors By Laurence Tognetti Watching meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere and streak across the ...Read More
Do Protons Decay? The Answer Might be on the Moon June 22, 2024Do Protons Decay? The Answer Might be on the Moon By Laurence Tognetti Does proton decay exist and how do we search for it? This is what ...Read More
China launches Sino-French astrophysics satellite, debris falls over populated area June 22, 2024China launches Sino-French astrophysics satellite, debris falls over populated area By Andrew Jones A Chinese launch of the joint Sino-...Read More
Synspective raises $44 million Series C round June 22, 2024Synspective raises $44 million Series C round By Jeff Foust Japanese radar imaging company Synspective has raised 7 billion yen ($44 mi...Read More
Lockheed Martin secures $977.5 million contract extension for missile-warning satellites June 21, 2024Lockheed Martin secures $977.5 million contract extension for missile-warning satellites By Sandra Erwin The latest award brings the to...Read More
Something’s Always Been Off About the Crab Nebula. Webb Has Revealed Why! June 21, 2024Something’s Always Been Off About the Crab Nebula. Webb Has Revealed Why! By Mark Thompson The Crab Nebula has always fascinated me, albe...Read More
Lake Shorelines on Titan are Shaped by Methane Waves June 21, 2024Lake Shorelines on Titan are Shaped by Methane Waves By Evan Gough Distant Titan is an oddball in the Solar System. Saturn’s largest moon...Read More
Northrop Grumman delivers Arctic broadband satellites ahead of scheduled July launch June 21, 2024Northrop Grumman delivers Arctic broadband satellites ahead of scheduled July launch By Sandra Erwin ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 host payloads fr...Read More
Astroscale Closes Within 50 Meters of its Space Junk Target June 20, 2024Astroscale Closes Within 50 Meters of its Space Junk Target By Mark Thompson Space debris is a major problem for space exploration. There...Read More
Honeywell sees space opportunity with $1.9 billion CAES acquisition June 20, 2024Honeywell sees space opportunity with $1.9 billion CAES acquisition By Jason Rainbow U.S. manufacturing giant Honeywell plans to buy de...Read More
House Intelligence chair blasts White House over Russia’s space nuke threat June 20, 2024House Intelligence chair blasts White House over Russia’s space nuke threat By Sandra Erwin Rep. Mike Turner warns of a 'Cuban miss...Read More
Here’s Hubble’s First Image in its New Pointing Mode June 20, 2024Here’s Hubble’s First Image in its New Pointing Mode By Evan Gough This is probably what the demise of the Hubble Space Telescope was alw...Read More