More clues surface about the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
More evidence that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is much older than our solar system has come to light, along with clues that it formed on the outskirts of the protoplanetary…
Blue Origin continues work on lunar landers during recovery from New Glenn explosion
Blue Origin is continuing to develop its Blue Moon lunar landers, with seven vehicles in production, while recovering from the New Glenn pad explosion more than a month ago. The…
Iridium folds Aireon aviation safety service into Rocket Lab-bound business
Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the satellite operator’s planned $8 billion sale to Rocket Lab. The post Iridium folds…
NASA just found a planet ‘hiding’ in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his…
Andromeda’s Newest Dwarf Galaxy is Extremely Dim
Astronomers have discovered an extremely low-mass and dim dwarf galaxy around Andromeda. Called And 35, it’s an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy (UFDG) and so far, the researchers have detected only 46…
NASA Takes Flight For America’s 250th
NASA/Keegan Barber NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall…
Black holes buried in mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth
Mysterious “little red dots” discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic “ghost particles” through the cosmos. Neutrinos…
New Horizons Watches the Solar Wind as it Slows Down
Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That’s a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling out beyond the Sun’s influence. A team of…
NASA adds three European firms to the commercial data program
MILAN — NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced June 23 contract awards with eight new commercial satellite data providers, three of which are European: Kuva Space (Finland), OroraTech…
A New Net-Membrane Could Clean Up Some Tricky Space Debris
We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think…