Terran Orbital Names Jamin Brown Chief Operating Officer
IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 29, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the…
If AI cannot be trusted in a classroom, why should it be trusted in orbit?
On September 9, 2026, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment science lead, said on social media that he personally believed there was a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill…
Mars Has Its Charmes
Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features…
Cornell Lightsail Experiment Paves the Way for Interstellar Missions
Students in Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio have published results from two lightsail experiments (Alpha CubeSat and Sailing to the Stars) built by engineering students at Cornell University.
Diving into an Out-of-sync Galaxy
Galaxies are like snowflakes, no two exactly alike, even the spirals. The Hubble Space Telescope did a visual dive into the distant spiral NGC 4693 and found some intriguing hints…
October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing
2 Min Read October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust carved out by a massive star.…
SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Does Its Job During First Orbital Flight
SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight — a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time.
NASA, Boeing Share Update on Commercial Starliner Development Plans
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. This…
NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation
On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time. In…
Mars Has a Warm Region Inside
Something deep inside Mars has scientists looking for clues to its internal evolution. A team at the University of Arizona led by Alexander Byrne, used a technique called “tidal tomography”…