This Week In Space podcast: Episode 206 — I Want to Believe
On Episode 206 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Brianne Suldovsky of Portland State University to discuss what happens after the discovery…
Don’t miss the moon, Venus and the Pleiades align after sunset on April 19
Look out for earthshine on the crescent moon as it shines near Venus and the 1,000-strong Pleiades star cluster.
What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 3: Brad Bradington Sprints
We have the crowd. We have the star. Now it’s time to put them together. Here’s exactly what happens — and why — when a charged particle outruns the local…
The Space Force’s ‘commercial first’ strategy in action with Col. Tim Trimailo
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Col. Tim Trimailo on how the Space Force is working with industry. They discuss what the service wants to see…
NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch ESA Mars rover mission despite budget threat
NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel. The post NASA selects Falcon Heavy to…
NorthStar to go public via SPAC to expand space-based SSA network
NorthStar Earth and Space plans to raise funds to expand the space-based sensor network behind its space situational awareness business by merging with Viking Acquisition Corp. I, a publicly listed…
How the ‘Project Hail Mary’ book walks the line between hard and speculative science fiction… and why the film did not
Two different ways to tell the same story.
New moon of April 2026 brings incredible views of the constellation Hydra, Jupiter, Venus and more this week
The new moon is the perfect time to spot faint constellations, galaxies and a quartet of planets in the dawn sky.
CSDA Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Satellogic NewSat Data
Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Satellogic NewSat Radiometric & Geometric Quality Assessment Report documents the evaluation process of the NASA subject matter experts (SMEs) enlisted…
How a Black Hole and a Shredded Star Could Light Up a Galaxy
In 2014, a strange cloudy object called G2 made a close approach to Sagittarius A*, (Sag A*) the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers…