SpaceX conducts 13th Starship test flight
SpaceX launched Starship on its 13th suborbital test flight July 24, correcting some of the issues seen on the previous flight while deploying functioning satellites for the first time. The…
Lucky 13! Starship Deploys Starlink Satellites and Splashes Down Intact
SpaceX’s Starship super-rocket deployed operational next-generation Starlink satellites for the first time during its 13th flight test, which addressed snags that arose in the previous test.
New Images Reveal the Stunning Properties of the Black Hole at the Center of M87
Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, carried out the first spatially resolved dual-frequency spectral study of the M87 black hole…
ULA deals with financial challenges caused by Vulcan grounding
United Launch Alliance’s corporate parents have guaranteed a loan to the company as it addresses “financial challenges” caused by the grounding of its Vulcan Centaur rocket. The post ULA deals…
ZWO Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope review
Smart telescopes like the Seestar S30 Pro have changed astrophotography and, arguably, urban astronomy. The Seestar S30 Pro takes that concept further than most. Small enough to fit inside a…
How the American Public Really Feels About the Booming Space Economy in 2026
In democracies, opinion polls are one of the most common ways to measure public and therefore political support for an issue. Because space exploration is still closely tied to the…
Are We Missing Alien Lighthouses?
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far meant primarily focusing on one particular type of signal – and that signal has normally been based on what our own current cutting…
We boldly chat with ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ showrunners about space dinosaurs and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)
Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman are the primary ringleaders behind “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds“, and they’re about to unleash the next cluster of 10 Season 4 episodes for…
Juno Measures the Heat Below Io’s Restless Surface
Juno’s Microwave Radiometer (MWR) was built peer deep down into Jupiter’s massive atmosphere. But during the spacecraft’s extended mission, it’s been studying the Galilean moons. During two flybys of volcanic…
NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light.…