Japan launches military communications satellite on 4th flight of H3 rocket (video)
Japan launched the Kirameki 3 military communications satellite Monday morning (Nov. 4), on the fourth-ever flight of the country’s H3 rocket.
Plastic Waste on our Beaches Now Visible from Space, Says New Study
According to the United Nations, the world produces about 430 million metric tons (267 U.S. tons) of plastic annually, two-thirds of which are only used for a short time and…
Airbus keeps options open for European industry consolidation
Airbus is keeping its options open for some kind of merger of its space business with another company as it continues to assess potential additional losses there. The post Airbus…
Future Space Telescopes Could be Made From Thin Membranes, Unrolled in Space to Enormous Size
Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn’t obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture incredibly detailed images of the heavens. Unfortunately, they are quite limited…
Explore a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in new ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ comic (exclusive)
Space.com has an exclusive three-page preview of IDW’s new “Star Trek: Lower Decks #1” comic.
Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio
Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that technology that was built THAT long ago is still…
Webb Confirms a Longstanding Galaxy Model
Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, astronomers can observe the history of the cosmos by…
The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe
Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of matter into a small space and can squeeze several solar masses into a radius…
30 Years On, NASA’s Wind Is a Windfall for Studying our Neighborhood in Space
5 min read 30 Years On, NASA’s Wind Is a Windfall for Studying our Neighborhood in Space An artist’s concept of NASA’s Wind spacecraft outside of Earth’s magnetosphere. NASA Picture…
Multimode Propulsion Could Revolutionize How We Launch Things to Space
In a few years, as part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the “first woman and first person of color” to the lunar surface. This will be the first…