Iceye raises 1 billion euros to expand SAR satellite systems
Iceye, a Finnish company that develops and operates radar imaging satellites, has raised more than 1 billion euros in a round that values it at more than 10 billion euros.…
Digging Back in Time in the UAE
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Digging Back in Time in the UAE Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life…
Scientists propose spraying chemicals into Earth’s magnetic field to protect us from powerful solar storms
Scientists have proposed a spacecraft-based system to actively strengthen Earth’s magnetic shield and reduce the impact of powerful solar storms.
James Webb Space Telescope weighs ‘sleeping giant’ black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it’s 6 billion times our sun’s mass
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have “weighed” a sleeping giant, a dormant supermassive black hole located a staggering 10 billion light-years…
How NASA Science and Artemis Are Shaping the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity. NASA As the FIFA World Cup approaches, NASA is bringing…
Space Telescopes Are Now Overwhelmed by Satellite Trails
Unfortunately there’s more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, reports that 73.3%…
Why Can’t the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 3: The Ekpyrotic Universe and Its Bouncing Branes
The ekpyrotic theory tries to beat inflation with bouncing higher-dimensional branes, no singularity, and a universe that has always existed. A tour of the prettiest version of the idea and…
Why do Venus and Jupiter meet up in the sky so often? It’s a symptom of a solar system that supports life on Earth
As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.
FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty
Amazon no longer faces a July 30 cutoff for deploying half its planned 3,232 broadband satellites, but the reprieve comes with a temporary loss of spectrum priority that could give…
Catch Comet 220P McNaught in Outburst
We witnessed a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards late last week, alerting comet watchers to a dramatic change in…