The Fastest Star in the Milky Way Will Test Relativity
Astronomers have discovered another S star, the population of stars that orbits the Milky Way’s SMBH. This one is the fastest of them all, and also comes closest to the…
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, has orbited Earth for more than 20 years, studying the ever-changing universe. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image…
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds
This image was taken by an Artemis II astronaut from the Orion capsule in April 2026, as the spacecraft traveled past the Moon and back over 10 days. The gray-brown,…
Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black hole
Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter. The discovery…
Interstellar Travel IV: Solar, Magnetic, & Directed-Energy Sails
In our fourth installment in the Interstellar Travel series, we’ll examine solar sails, magnetosails, and directed-energy propulsion (DEP), which are currently the most plausible methods for reaching another star system…
Are Mega-Constellations Sleepwalking Low Earth Orbit into Runaway Chaos?
It seems the overwhelming majority of the time when we write about satellite megaconstellations, it’s as a warning. That’s not because they aren’t useful, but because they hold the potential…
Ancient Milky Way Merger
About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space…
NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce
From left, Sean McCrary and Katie Mortensen, mechanical engineering technicians, paint NASA’s Artemis logo on the White Room connected to the crew access arm and mobile launcher inside the Vehicle…
Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missions
East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator of high-performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems announces a new,…
The space industry’s next challenge: supply chain resilience
America’s space economy is scaling faster than its industrial base can support. Commercial constellations are proliferating, national security architectures are becoming more distributed and resilient and civil missions are growing…