Blue Origin launching 6 people to suborbital space on Jan. 22
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live.
What Created This Strange Iron Bar In The Ring Nebula?
The Ring Nebula is a well-studied planetary nebula about 2,570 light-years away. Nnew observations of the nebula with a new instrument have revealed a previously unseen component. The William Herschel…
How to make a super-Earth: The universe’s most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres.
Total solar eclipse 2030: Everything you need to know about totality in southern Africa and southeast Australia
The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be possible from Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho.
Northern lights may be visible in 10 states tonight as Earth’s magnetic field ‘rings like a bell’ after CME impact
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact.
The 2030 Race for a Moon Reactor
The US’s federally funded space program has been struggling of late. With the recent cancellation of the Mars Sample Return mission, and mass layoffs / resignations taking place at NASA,…
Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes 3 New Associate Members
January 20, 2026 – Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome Max Space, Slingshot Aerospace, and Muon Space. Together, these companies strengthen CSF’s advocacy efforts across space…
The Alien Hunter’s Shopping List
We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that might have noticeable biosignatures. However, no matter how good the instrumentation…
Free warnings, better catalogs: the real fix for space safety
A one-line change in the Dec. 18, 2025 Executive Order, Ensuring American Space Superiority, reopened a debate: should the United States charge satellite operators for basic space situational awareness (SSA)…
Washington Harbour expands space investments with ground services acquisition
The firm acquired Radome Services, which was rebranded as Outpost Mission Services to anchor a roll-up strategy in space ground services The post Washington Harbour expands space investments with ground…