A Star’s Death Throes Involves a Lot of Kicking
When stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives, the textbook story has them puffing up and quietly shedding their outer layers to leave a white dwarf behind.…
Galaxy Groups Hiding in the Universe’s Emptiest Places
Even the universe’s emptiest regions, the vast voids that make up most of the volume of space, are not entirely empty. A new study using the CAVITY survey hunts for…
ESA Outlines High-Tech Lander Instruments for 2050 Enceladus
Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, has become a prime solar system target for astrobiologists. This is because the small moon, which is just over 10 percent the diameter of Earth’s Moon, harbors…
Nautilus Array to Track Missing Exoplanet Atmospheres
Exoplanet atmospheres have become prima targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can’t be directly imaged yet, so astronomers must get creative…
NASA awards nearly $600 million in lunar lander missions
NASA selected three companies to fly four lunar lander missions worth nearly $600 million as part of its lunar base ambitions, as it weighs also launching a spare Mars rover.…
TechnoMile Recognized among Notable Vendors in Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms Landscape Report
TechnoMile, the leading AI solution that unifies growth, contracts, compliance, and security workflows, today announced it has been included in Forrester’s report, The Contract Lifecycle Management Platforms Landscape, Q2 2026.…
‘PROMISE’ me the moon? NASA wants to send spare nuclear-powered Mars rover to the lunar surface
NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to…
It’s Finally Begun! The Vera Rubin Observatory Creating What Will Be the Greatest Movie Ever Made
The Vera Rubin Observatory’s long-awaited Legacy Survey of Space and Time has begun. This decade-long movie of the cosmos will capture anything that changes brightness, position, or both in the…
Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite from New Zealand tonight
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit tonight (June 30), and you can watch the action live. An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-13 satellite is scheduled…
Blue Origin starts rebuilding launch pad damaged by New Glenn rocket explosion — and it will look very different when it’s done
Blue Origin has started rebuilding the launch pad damaged by an explosive accident last month, but the company is working from a very different blueprint this time around. The company’s…