Finding a Better Way to Distinguish Life from Non-Life
Finding a Better Way to Distinguish Life from Non-Life By The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry ...Read More
White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA
White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA By Jeff Foust The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman t...Read More
Blue Origin performs 12th crewed New Shepard suborbital flight
Blue Origin performs 12th crewed New Shepard suborbital flight By Jeff Foust Blue Origin sent six people to space on a suborbital spacef...Read More
Advanced Orbital Constellations for Solar Storm Defense
Advanced Orbital Constellations for Solar Storm Defense By Solar storms have the potential to cause catastrophic damage. One that occurr...Read More
Advancing Deep Space Travel with Nuclear Propulsion
Advancing Deep Space Travel with Nuclear Propulsion By How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifica...Read More
NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands
NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands By Jeff Foust NASA released more details about its proposed fisca...Read More
SpaceX launches latest GPS III satellite for U.S. military
SpaceX launches latest GPS III satellite for U.S. military By Sandra Erwin GPS III SV-08, built by Lockheed Martin, is the eighth of 10 ...Read More
Did a Large Impact on the Moon Make its Rocks Magnetic?
Did a Large Impact on the Moon Make its Rocks Magnetic? By We've been gazing at the Moon for a long time, yet it's still mysteri...Read More
Venus Shows Why Ozone Isn't a Good Biosignature
Venus Shows Why Ozone Isn't a Good Biosignature By Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mea...Read More
New report details China’s push to dominate artificial intelligence
New report details China’s push to dominate artificial intelligence By Sandra Erwin At the core of Beijing's campaign are advanced d...Read More
A CubeSat Design for Monitoring the Whole Sky In UV
A CubeSat Design for Monitoring the Whole Sky In UV By Ultraviolet astronomical observations have always been hindered by one simple fac...Read More
The Webb Captures Faint Galaxies from the Universe's Ancient Past
The Webb Captures Faint Galaxies from the Universe's Ancient Past By The galaxy cluster Abell S1063 dominates the center of this JWS...Read More
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid By Andrew Jones China launched its second planetary exploration mission W...Read More
New Adaptive Optics Show "Raindrops" on the Sun
New Adaptive Optics Show "Raindrops" on the Sun By Modern ground-based telescopes rely on adaptive optics (AO) to deliver clea...Read More
ExoTerra delivers 21 propulsion modules for SDA satellites
ExoTerra delivers 21 propulsion modules for SDA satellites By Debra Werner SAN FRANCISCO — Colorado-based ExoTerra Resources has supplie...Read More
The real Golden Dome opportunity – defense acquisition reform
The real Golden Dome opportunity – defense acquisition reform By Sarah Mineiro The Golden Dome is ambitious, alluring and amorphous. Man...Read More
Astronomers Identified the Lost Star of 1408…Or Have They?
Astronomers Identified the Lost Star of 1408…Or Have They? By Over the past 90 years, astronomers have successfully matched several Chin...Read More
EnduroSat raises $49 million to mass produce larger satellites
EnduroSat raises $49 million to mass produce larger satellites By Jason Rainbow Bulgaria-based microsatellite specialist EnduroSat annou...Read More
Empyreum, Italy’s new satellite platform for the constellation era
Empyreum, Italy’s new satellite platform for the constellation era By SITAEL At SmallSat Europe 2025 in Amsterdam, Italy’s SITAEL unveil...Read More
How Likely Are Habitable Exo-Moons?
How Likely Are Habitable Exo-Moons? By Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we've discovered, a significant number are in the apparent ha...Read More
Mission-ready communications: enhancing defense capabilities with multi-orbit, multi-network systems
Mission-ready communications: enhancing defense capabilities with multi-orbit, multi-network systems By Tom Jackson With the rapid integ...Read More
Chinese commercial company lands contract to build provincial satellite constellation
Chinese commercial company lands contract to build provincial satellite constellation By Andrew Jones Chinese commercial satellite manuf...Read More
Is Venus Hiding Dangerous Asteroids?
Is Venus Hiding Dangerous Asteroids? By Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatenin...Read More
More Questions About Life on Exoplanet K2-18b
More Questions About Life on Exoplanet K2-18b By Whenever scientists present new research showing potential biosignatures on an exoplan...Read More
SpaceX blames Starship Flight 8 mishap on engine hardware failure
SpaceX blames Starship Flight 8 mishap on engine hardware failure By Jeff Foust The failure of SpaceX’s Starship on its most recent test...Read More
Raytheon secures $380 million contract extension for GPS ground control system
Raytheon secures $380 million contract extension for GPS ground control system By Sandra Erwin The Next Generation Operational Control S...Read More
Impulse Space to launch SES satellites
Impulse Space to launch SES satellites By Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — Impulse Space has signed an agreement with satellite operator SES to t...Read More
Dawn Aerospace begins sales of Aurora suborbital spaceplane
Dawn Aerospace begins sales of Aurora suborbital spaceplane By Jeff Foust Dawn Aerospace announced May 22 that it has started taking ord...Read More
HERMES-PF's 6 CubeSats Watch The Entire Sky For High-Energy Bursts
HERMES-PF's 6 CubeSats Watch The Entire Sky For High-Energy Bursts By Multi-messenger astronomy has been all the rage lately. It inv...Read More
Even Extreme UV from Massive Stars Can't Stop Planets from Forming
Even Extreme UV from Massive Stars Can't Stop Planets from Forming By We know that planets form in protoplanetary disks, swirling co...Read More
FAA provides final approval for next Starship launch
FAA provides final approval for next Starship launch By Jeff Foust The Federal Aviation Administration has given final approval to Space...Read More
Blue Origin updates work on ‘transporter’ for Blue Moon lunar lander
Blue Origin updates work on ‘transporter’ for Blue Moon lunar lander By Jeff Foust Blue Origin revealed new details about its developmen...Read More
Ursa, University of Illinois and Palantir win Luno A contracts
Ursa, University of Illinois and Palantir win Luno A contracts By Debra Werner ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency a...Read More
Is Mars Storing its Water Underground?
Is Mars Storing its Water Underground? By Mars' oceans, lakes, and rivers are long gone. They've left behind evidence of their t...Read More
Space Force and NGA move to end turf disputes with new intelligence agreement
Space Force and NGA move to end turf disputes with new intelligence agreement By Debra Werner and Sandra Erwin 'We signed a piece of...Read More
Planetary Scientists Confirm There's No Flowing Water on Mars
Planetary Scientists Confirm There's No Flowing Water on Mars By It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what ...Read More
Satellite firms brace for potential imagery budget cuts in 2026
Satellite firms brace for potential imagery budget cuts in 2026 By Sandra Erwin and Debra Werner Industry officials: Cuts of this magnit...Read More
A CubeSat Propulsion System to Visit Near Earth Objects
A CubeSat Propulsion System to Visit Near Earth Objects By In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), in...Read More
China launches classified comms satellite, conducts commercial sea launch
China launches classified comms satellite, conducts commercial sea launch By Andrew Jones China has continued an uptick in launch activi...Read More
GEOINT 2025: Navigating intelligence in a shifting world
GEOINT 2025: Navigating intelligence in a shifting world By SpaceNews Editor This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our gu...Read More
New Algorithm Details the Most Extreme Particle Storm Known to Science
New Algorithm Details the Most Extreme Particle Storm Known to Science By Extreme solar storms are a relatively rare event. However, as ...Read More
SatVu’s thermal imaging satellite winning over customers despite early setback
SatVu’s thermal imaging satellite winning over customers despite early setback By Sandra Erwin SatVu's HotSat satellites use thermal...Read More
Commercial radar satellite firm eyes role in U.S. missile defense
Commercial radar satellite firm eyes role in U.S. missile defense By Sandra Erwin Iceye’s Eric Jensen: ‘Commercial SAR could be transfor...Read More
China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28
China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 By Andrew Jones HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep ...Read More
Voyager Technologies files to go public
Voyager Technologies files to go public By Jeff Foust Space and defense company Voyager Technologies has filed to go public, revealing d...Read More
Meteor Impacts on Mars Can Excavate its Secrets
Meteor Impacts on Mars Can Excavate its Secrets By Spacecraft orbiting Mars can reveal small features on the planet's surface, but t...Read More
Capella Space bets on quantum future under IonQ ownership
Capella Space bets on quantum future under IonQ ownership By Sandra Erwin IonQ’s long-term ambition is to build the world’s first space-...Read More
NGA set to open St. Louis campus in September, aiming to boost public-private geospatial collaboration
NGA set to open St. Louis campus in September, aiming to boost public-private geospatial collaboration By Sandra Erwin The $1.7 billion ...Read More
PSLV launch of Indian radar imaging satellite fails
PSLV launch of Indian radar imaging satellite fails By Jeff Foust An Indian launch of a radar imaging satellite failed May 17 when a pro...Read More
Astronauts Could See Auroras on Mars with their Eyes
Astronauts Could See Auroras on Mars with their Eyes By Earth's magnetosphere channels particles from solar storms into stunning aur...Read More
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