Life as we don’t know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water
If we’re looking for life as we don’t know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that’s floating around in the clouds of…
Lunar Gateway’s Core HALO Module Enters the Clean Room
Gateway’s HALO module heads to the U.S., on its long path to orbiting the Moon. Preparations for Lunar Gateway are starting to come together. Thales Alenia Aerospace engineers recently began…
Airbus takes another 300 million euros in space program charges
Airbus is taking an additional 300 million euros in charges on its space projects as it continues talks with two other European companies about combining their satellite businesses. The post…
Marotta Controls Delivers 50,000th CoRe Valve to Rocket Lab
CoRe Flow Controls combine legacy expertise with high volume production to support launch vehicle applications in commercial space sector. MONTVILLE, N.J. — February 19, 2025 — Marotta Controls, a rapidly…
China readies Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return spacecraft for launch
HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at Xichang…
How Humble Hydrogen Lights Up the Universe
What if I told you there was a secret window, and if you looked through this window you could see the entire history of the universe unfold before your very…
NASA lowers impact risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 67 (phew!)
Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after it became the highest-risk…
Musk and Trump just repeated inaccurate claims of ‘stranded’ Starliner astronauts. NASA and the astronauts don’t agree
Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner mission were “abandoned” in space.
What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case
Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.
Trump orders $50 billion cut from 2026 defense budget, shields ‘Iron Dome’ initiative
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated a review to identify offsets from the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal. The post Trump orders $50 billion cut from 2026 defense…