A space rock exploded through a bedroom ceiling in New Jersey, and scientists have now traced its origins to a strange, briny asteroid once visited by a NASA mission. Two…
Washington, D.C. — July 15, 2026 — The Commercial Space Federation (CSF), the leading trade association representing the commercial space industry, today announced the launch of its State and Local…
Is space … sweet? As it turns out, interstellar space has sugar — and it’s the same type of sugar that’s found in raspberries (and self-tanners, surprisingly). A sugar compound…
You can’t ride alongside a beam of light, and the reason why opens a door onto the strangest parts of relativity. A tour of rest frames, why a photon has…
Astronomers thought that early galaxies were messy, clumpy, and turbulent from mergers. That means their gas was all stirred up. So what could explain the rapid star formation during the…
NAPA, Calif. – Florida startup Satellite Orbital Access and Removal (SOAR) announced a partnership July 15 with the University of Texas, El Paso, (UTEP) to develop a passive system to…
NAPA, Calif. – Icarus Robotics, the New York startup developing dexterous mobile robots for space missions, selected KULR Technology Group to provide batteries for Joy, a free-flying platform destined for…
After chasing a small asteroid across a billion kilometres of space, China’s Tianwen-2 probe has finally caught up, closing to within twenty kilometres of its target and beginning detailed scientific…
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black…
Astronomers have measured the ages of over a hundred and fifty thousand ancient stars scattered across our Galaxy, and found the oldest of them is just the age it should…
