Don’t miss the moon and Saturn put on a spectacular show before sunrise June 10
Set your alarm for June 10 as Saturn shines beside a bright crescent moon in the predawn sky.
Magnetic Fields Help Binary Stars Form and Black Holes Merge
New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the characteristics of the binary…
La NASA avanza hacia la misión Artemis III en 2027 y anuncia a su tripulación
La tripulación de Artemis III posa para una foto oficial en sus trajes espaciales naranjas (de izquierda a derecha: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik y Frank Rubio). Crédito: NASA/Bill…
NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members
The Artemis III crew poses for an official portrait (from left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio). Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford Taking another step toward one of the most…
June 2026 Satellite Puzzler
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Warren AI™ Risk analysis engine Is now Live: Building The Risk Intelligence Infrastructure Layer for The Space Economy
The space economy is accelerating faster than ever before. Thousands of satellites are being launched. Commercial space stations are emerging. Space manufacturing is on the horizon. Governments, defense organizations, telecommunications…
A Rare Meteorite Just Revealed a Lost, Mars-Sized Planet from the Dawn of the Solar System
Meteorites are (usually) gifts from the heavens. They provide unique insights to parts of the solar system that we couldn’t access otherwise – either because it’s too expensive, or because…
Neptune’s Weirdest Moon Nereid Might Be the Lone Survivor of an Ancient “Moonpocalypse”
Neptune is definitely the odd one out of the gas giants. It’s tilted at a strange angle, and its moons are completely different from any other gas giant we know…
BlackSky to accelerate broad-area collection work under NRO contract modification
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Reconnaissance Office awarded a contract modification to BlackSky Technology to accelerate development of AROS broad-area-collection satellites. “The effort funds a direct path toward a flight…
New Glenn forced an explosive rewrite for NASA’s plans to build a moon base
NASA unveiled plans in March to develop a lunar base as part of its “Ignition” event that outlined the agency’s new direction in human spaceflight. The plans, though, were rather…