California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium. Rocket Lab has brought a variety of companies into its space…
After more than eight years of searching and with instruments designed to detect it, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Trace Gas Orbiter has yet to find methane in the…
Europe’s CERN physics research center bids ‘Farewell’ to the Large Hadron Collider, but it’s actually more like ‘See You Later, Accelerator!’ The new, improved High-Luminosity LHC is due to make…
On September 22, 2021, the IceCube Neutrino Detector in Antarctica caught a blast of neutrinos as it passed through the solar system. These neutrinos were remarkably high-energy and came from…
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary today, it’s worth noting a certain sense of irony that Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” seems oddly prescient into today’s AI-obsessed environment, especially…
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, and Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler, left, pose for a photo after signing a Memorandum of Agreement Monday, June 29, 2026, at…
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is the agency’s first major…
Two NASA astronauts will fix the International Space Station’s big robotic arm during a spacewalk on Tuesday (June 30), and you can watch the action live. Chris Williams and Jessica…
Stellar mass black holes may not be black holes at all. Instead, they could be a type of extremely compact star called a gravastar, which mimics a black hole. This…
Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions might look like a direct sequel to Astroneer on the surface, but it’s a space exploration game with very different objectives. While its predecessor focuses (it continues…
