SpaceX has launched more rockets in the past four years than the Soviet Union launched during the entire Space Race, and the cost per kilogram to low Earth orbit has dropped about 95% since 2010 — which has quietly rewritten the economics of every space p
Space Technology 1 month ago
SpaceX has launched more rockets in the past four years than the Soviet Union launched during the entire Space Race, and the cost per kilogram to low Earth orbit has dropped about 95% since 2010 — which has quietly rewritten the economics of every space p

In 2024, a single American company launched 134 orbital rockets. In 2025, that company is on track to launch around 170. The company is SpaceX. The tw...

Source: Space Daily

Space Mining Market Size to Hit USD 16.09 Billion by 2035 | Research by SNS Insider
Comet & Asteroid News 1 month ago
Space Mining Market Size to Hit USD 16.09 Billion by 2035 | Research by SNS Insider

Global Space Mining Market Size, Share, Trends & Segmentation, By Phase, By Asteroid Type, By Commodity Resource, By Region, And Forecast 2026-203...

Source: GlobeNewswire

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Anderson confirmed as NASA deputy administrator

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed Matt Anderson on May 18 as NASA’s deputy administrator, the second-in-command of the space agency.

Source: SpaceNews

The four astronauts who flew farther from Earth than any humans in history have just come back. The advice they’re giving the rest of us has almost nothing to do with space.
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The four astronauts who flew farther from Earth than any humans in history have just come back. The advice they’re giving the rest of us has almost nothing to do with space.

On 10 April 2026, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, completing a nearly ten-day flight that had taken the...

Source: Space Daily

Artemis Missions 1 month ago
Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. 'There are 4 people in those pixels.' - Space

Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. 'There are 4 people in those pixels.'Space See more headlin...

Source: Slashdot.org

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems

You’re doing some late afternoon work on the habitat as part of humanity’s first exoplanet settlement, but the sun is going down so you’re trying to s...

Source: Universe Today

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
ESA-China SMILE mission lifts off to deliver first global images of Earth’s magnetosphere

KOUROU, French Guiana — The SMILE mission developed jointly by the European Space Agency and China has reached orbit after more than a decade of prepa...

Source: SpaceNews

The moon is moving away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year — which means the total solar eclipses humans alive today get to see are something no future civilisation will ever witness
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The moon is moving away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year — which means the total solar eclipses humans alive today get to see are something no future civilisation will ever witness

The Earth-Moon geometry that produces total solar eclipses is a temporary coincidence in deep time, and the spiral measurement that confirms it comes ...

Source: Space Daily

There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting
Space Technology 1 month ago
There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting

Space is a vacuum, but NASA's spacecraft carry instruments that translate the electromagnetic environment of planets into audible signals — and t...

Source: Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission
Astronomy Research 1 month ago
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission

The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, and runs on about ...

Source: Space Daily

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates

There's a distinct category of exoworlds out there that orbit two stars. They're called "circumbinary" planets and up until recent...

Source: Universe Today

Space Technology 1 month ago
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4893-4899: Drilling at Campo Marte and a Visit From the Psyche Spacecraft

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, May 15, 2026 After freeing the rover’s arm f...

Source: NASA

New “superfuel” promises 32% boost in aircraft and rocket range
Artemis Program 1 month ago
New “superfuel” promises 32% boost in aircraft and rocket range

CycloKinetics, a US propellant company, has unveiled a new family of superfuels for aircraft, missiles, and rockets that increase fuel performance by ...

Source: New Atlas

The Apollo astronauts left behind retroreflectors on the lunar surface that scientists still bounce lasers off today, and the round-trip time has been measured precisely enough to prove the Moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year, abo
Artemis Program 1 month ago
The Apollo astronauts left behind retroreflectors on the lunar surface that scientists still bounce lasers off today, and the round-trip time has been measured precisely enough to prove the Moon is drifting away from Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year, abo

Apollo astronauts left passive mirror arrays on the Moon in 1969, 1971 and 1971. Lasers fired at those reflectors from Earth now measure the lunar dis...

Source: Space Daily

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Vega C set to launch SMILE to study Earth’s magnetosphere

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) latest science mission, Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE),… The post Vega C set to...

Source: NASASpaceFlight

Artemis Program 1 month ago
Iron and Ice: Earth's Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud

Our Solar System is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Ea...

Source: Universe Today

Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?
Artemis Program 1 month ago
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."

Source: Space.com

NASA & Space Agencies 1 month ago
Johnson Photographers Honored for Award-Winning Portraits 

Three photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center who inspire the world through visual storytelling earned top honors in the portrait category at the...

Source: NASA

Comet & Asteroid News 1 month ago
New Algorithm Cracks the Asteroid Routing Problem

The Traveling Salesman is a classic problem in mathematics that requires a solution to the most efficient path to take to visit a given number of citi...

Source: Universe Today

Astronomy Research 1 month ago
The Milky Way's Turbulence Distorts Light from Distant Quasars

We may be getting better images of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in the future. Astronomers used 10 years of observations of a distant ...

Source: Universe Today