A 60-Year Old Mystery About the Moon’s Magnetosphere Is Finally Solved
One particularly well known fact about the Moon is that it doesn’t have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There’s no blanket to protect it from the solar wind…
Kepler Communications: Call for Live-Stream Payload Concepts
Kepler is issuing a call for payloads seeking persistent, real-time data streaming in Low Earth Orbit. Integration starts soon for the limited number of hosted payload slots remaining available across…
Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands | Space photo of the day for March 16, 2026
Scientists are searching for evidence of microbial life left behind in these mineral deposits.
Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926, at Auburn, Mass. Esther Goddard, from the Clark University…
A Combination of Techniques Leads to Improved Friction Stir Welding
Download PDF: A Combination of Techniques Leads to Improved Friction Stir Welding The NESC developed several innovative tools and techniques during an assessment to find the root cause of poor…
Investing in student programs is essential for America’s lead in space
The University of Illinois’ Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment (SEAQUE) is a compelling success story in the global race to develop quantum communication networks in space. The experiment’s success…
Reading Europa’s Fingerprints
Beneath Europa’s cracked and frozen shell lies a vast ocean of liquid water and what’s seeping up through that ice may be one of the most compelling clues we have…
Life, But Not As We Know It
For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough like us to recognise. A radical new idea…
The Sun’s Great Escape
Our Sun didn’t always call this quiet corner of the Milky Way home. New research using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has uncovered evidence that the Sun…
Starcloud files plans for 88,000-satellite constellation
An orbital data center startup is seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a constellation of as many as 88,000 satellites. The post Starcloud files plans for 88,000-satellite constellation…