NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission
6 min read NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency…
When It Comes To Burping Jets, Supermassive Black Holes and Stellar-Mass Black Holes Have The Same Table Manners
Both stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes can produce ionized jets streaming from their poles. Stellar-mass black holes consume the material of companion stars, while supermassive black holes rip…
Space is everyone’s business: Economist Enterprise’s 4th annual Space Economy Summit returns to Orlando
ORLANDO, FL — September 28th, 2026 — Space is rapidly becoming a practical business tool for industries far beyond aerospace, as satellite intelligence, resilient connectivity and other space-enabled technologies create…
Agile Space Industries Expands Leadership Structure to Support Next Phase of Growth
DURANGO, Colo., Sept. 28, 2026 – Agile Space Industries today announced that Jason Wright will join the company as President in early October, strengthening Agile’s operational leadership as the company…
Astronomers Couldn’t Explain This Ancient Star’s Chemistry. A Lab Experiment Just Did.
Everything from the gold in your smart phone to the calcium in your bones was originally created in a star. But for a long time there has been a question…
The Solar System’s First Planets Were Made of Fire, Not Ice
The early stages of the solar system remain shrouded in mystery. Not much remains from that time, but scientists have developed plenty of theories about what was going on back…
JWST Finds Dynamic Structural Evolution in Chariklo’s Rings
When we think of asteroids, we often think of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that contains the majority of the known asteroids in our solar system. However,…
APOD: 2026 September 27 – Andromeda Before and After Photoshop
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Carbon Rocks Deep Underground Could Hold the Evidence of Mars’ Watery Past.
A new geochemical modeling study led by researchers at JAXA and the University of Tokyo addresses Mars’ “missing” stores of carbonate rocks.
APOD: 2026 September 26 – Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way
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