Space Force chief makes case for increased funding before House panel
Saltzman said the military’s space branch is not resourced to do what it’s being asked to do The post Space Force chief makes case for increased funding before House panel…
India’s satellite crackdown brings fresh challenges for Starlink and OneWeb
India is tightening security and data compliance rules for satellite connectivity, creating new hurdles for SpaceX’s Starlink and other broadband constellations aiming to enter the world’s most populous country. The…
FAA gives environmental approval for increased Starship launch rate
The Federal Aviation Administration will allow SpaceX to perform as many as 25 Starship launches a year from its Texas site, five times the previous limit. The post FAA gives…
NASA Live Coverage, Original Content Now Streaming on Prime Video
Credit: NASA NASA’s on-demand streaming service, NASA+, launched a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel on Prime Video Tuesday, giving viewers another way to watch the agency’s aeronautics, human spaceflight, science,…
NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Could Study Dying Planets
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Could Study Dying Planets
NASA Progresses Toward Crewed Moon Mission with Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones
Technicians move the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II test flight out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center…
SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky
NASA/JPL-Caltech A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from NASA’S SPHEREx space observatory. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science…
Webb Watches Dramatic Weather Changes on a Pair of Nearby Brown Dwarfs
When astronomers want to understand brown dwarfs, they often turn to WISE 1049AB. It’s a benchmark brown dwarf in astronomy, and the closest and brightest brown dwarf we know of.…
Free Floating Binary Planets Can’t Last Long
The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known observations concerns Free-Floating Planets (FFP). FFPs have no gravitational tether…