APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
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Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke
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Virgin Galactic delays resumption of commercial flights to 2027
Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months. The post Virgin Galactic delays resumption of…
Space Force orders two more Impulse Space vehicles for maneuvering demonstrations
A $28 million contract expansion adds Victus Salo 2 and 3 to an earlier award for responsive-space missions The post Space Force orders two more Impulse Space vehicles for maneuvering…
Pentagon missile buildup changing the factory floor
Startups are bringing software, robotics and manufacturing methods developed around commercial space into a defense industry under pressure to produce weapons faster The post Pentagon missile buildup changing the factory…
Two Million X-Ray Sources, and One Cluster That Doesn’t Fit
The eROSITA telescope has released its second great catalogue of the X-ray sky with close to two million sources across half the sky, roughly double what it published before. Buried…
Twenty Years of Watching One Galaxy, and It Made Less Sense
Blazars are galaxies with a jet aimed almost directly at us, and they flicker across every part of the spectrum at once. Almost everything we think we know about them…
Nine Hundred Telescopes and One Chance a Year
Reading the atmosphere of another world means catching starlight as it filters through that planet’s air during a transit. The signal is about one part in a million and a…
Space Command identifies capabilities it needs for the next space war
Gen. Stephen Whiting said there is a demand for offensive capabilities and called on the industry to develop ways to disable the critical nodes of large satellite constellations The post…
This year’s ‘Masters of the Universe’ movie wasn’t Hollywood’s first attempt at capturing the power of He-Man; they tried back in 1987, and failed then too
For the generation that grew up in the 1980s, the release of the recent big-budget “Masters of the Universe” movie would undoubtedly have conjured up a sense of déjà-vu. Picture…