NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft fuels up and moves closer to launch
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the crewed Artemis 2 mission to fly astronauts around the moon is all fueled up and going through final preparations to ready the vehicle for stacking…
Impulse Space sees strong demand for GEO rideshare program
A year after announcing plans to offer rideshare missions to geostationary orbit, Impulse Space says the demand has been strong enough to plan an annual series of them. The post…
AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole
Artificial intelligence helps astronomers observe what may be the first known case of a star exploding while interacting with a black hole.
“You will tell me everything”: Exclusive ‘Foundation’ Season 3 clip shows a tense reunion for Demerzel and Gaal Dornick (video)
It’s a 300-year reunion in our violent peek at this week’s episode, ‘The Shape of Time’.
Gabe Zimmerman on customer needs and scaling SmallSat production
In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss speaks with Gabe Zimmerman, Director, In-Space at Ursa Major. The post Gabe Zimmerman on customer needs and scaling SmallSat production appeared…
Cambrian Works Selects Astroscale U.S. as its Mission Partner for NASA Swift Observatory Boost Mission Concept Study
Commercial mission concept could give the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory a new lease on life, preserving its search for the universe’s most powerful explosions The post Cambrian Works Selects Astroscale…
Alligator Goes for a Swim
NASA/Bill White An alligator moves through a brackish waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this May 8, 2017, photo. The center shares space with the Merritt Island…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Could Intercept 3I/ATLAS as it Approaches Jupiter
arXiv:2507.21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of $53.56(pm 0.45)$ million ${rm km}$ ($0.358pm 0.003$~au) from Jupiter on March 16, 2026.…
Scientists Use Earth’s Shadow to Hunt for Alien Probes
For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking a different approach, this…
Comet’s Water Reveals Clues About Life on Earth
A team of scientists have made a discovery that could help solve one of Earth’s greatest mysteries, where did our planet’s water come from? Using powerful radio telescopes, the researchers…