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Submit ArticleThe cardinality wall: The hidden data bottleneck for LEO constellations
The satellite industry is entering an era defined by scale. Thousands of spacecraft are operating simultaneously in low Earth orbit (LEO), powering ev...
Source: SpaceNews
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. T...
Source: NASA
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 stacked ahead of May 21 liftoff
SpaceX is now targeting a Thursday, May 21, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket. See our latest updates here.
Source: Space.com
The Defense Industrial Base Is Ramping at a Generational Pace -- and a Florida Air-Launch Operator Just Built the Engineering Layer to Fit Into It
Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. Record backlogs, raised guidance, Department of War strategic investments in propulsion capacity, multi-y...
Source: PRNewswire
The Soviet Union landed a probe on Venus in 1970 that survived only 23 minutes before being crushed, but in those 23 minutes Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet, and the signal was so weak engine
On December 15, 1970, the Soviet probe Venera 7 became the first human-made object to transmit data from the surface of another planet. The signal was...
Source: Space Daily
Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky
For most of human history, the sky was not something we studied — it was something we lived with. The post Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky appe...
Source: Sky & Telescope
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 megarocket on May 21
SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket will fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), and you can watch the highly anticipated a...
Source: Space.com
Successful launch of SMILE Satellite marks first China-Europe mission-level cooperation in probing solar wind battles
High above our planet, a "cosmic smile" has taken shape. Riding aboard the Vega-C launch vehicle, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Li...
Source: Globalsecurity.org
The Mental Health Journey of Astronauts Returning Home: Re-Entry Adaptation
Astronauts often have an emotional change after seeing Earth from space, termed 'the overview effect', the ultimate space, every division.
Source: Psychologs.com
Isaacman expects Chinese crewed mission around the moon in 2027
The head of NASA says he expects China to perform a crewed flight around the moon in 2027, ratcheting up perceptions of a space race between China and...
Source: SpaceNews
NASA dreams of a nuclear power plant on the moon. Here’s why
To build its moon base, NASA needs a lot of power
Source: Scientific American
This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for i...
Source: ProPublica
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational balance point so precarious it has to fire its thrusters every three weeks just to stay there, and when its fuel runs out around 2040 it will drift away forever with no
The James Webb Space Telescope sits at a gravitational balance point a million miles from Earth, firing its thrusters on a regular cadence to stay in ...
Source: Space Daily
Russian Space Agency Displays Commercial Ads on Rockets to Boost Revenues
Faced with shrinking budgets, Roscosmos, Russia's national space agency, started displaying commercial ads on its rockets. The post Russian Space...
Source: Odditycentral.com
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 launch from California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
Source: Space.com
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the uni
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021, astronomers expected it would peer further back in ...
Source: Space Daily
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB
SpaceX’s 45th Starlink mission of the year will see the company add another 24 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 4E...
Source: Spaceflight Now
This Is The Massive Barge NASA Uses To Transport Space Rockets
To move the massive components used to launch Artemis spacecraft, NASA uses the Pegasus Barge, a huge piece of equipment with a fascinating history.
Source: Jalopnik
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever Starship V3 test gets new launch date - Space
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever Starship V3 test gets new launch dateSpace For SpaceX, the stakes of this week’s Starship rocket te...
Source: Slashdot.org
The water in your coffee this morning is older than the Sun, formed in interstellar clouds before the solar system existed, and roughly half of every glass of water on Earth predates the planet it’s sitting on by about a billion years.
Roughly half the water on Earth formed in interstellar clouds before the Sun existed. A new study of comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar visitor ev...
Source: Space Daily