Beaming Up Security: Spire Global Launches Optical Link Nanosats
Spire Global, in partnership with the European Space Agency, has successfully launched a second pair of satellites capable of secure light-based communication. This represents a…
Spire Global, in partnership with the European Space Agency, has successfully launched a second pair of satellites capable of secure light-based communication. This represents a…
Konstantin Borisov from Roscosmos has been named the final crew member for NASA’s mid-August SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, joining astronauts from…
Researchers propose in a new study that the universe’s lack of clumpiness suggests dark matter is composed of hypothetical, ultra-light particles called axions. If confirmed,…
Researchers are working on sustainable technology to harvest solar power in space – which could supplement life support systems on the Moon and Mars. In…
Astronomers have found that young supermassive stars near the Milky Way’s black hole are single, not binary, a finding contrary to normal supermassive star formation….
Equipping the space station to produce more power … NASA’s newest experimental X-plane … And preparing to test a new laser communications system … A…
In 1997 an ambitious international mission, led by NASA’S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, launches to Saturn. The goal is to place a spacecraft around the planet…
Researchers at the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory have detailed the complete light curve of high-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) for the…
During a busy week at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk to install the sixth solar array, boosting the station’s power capacity…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a lightning bolt at Jupiter’s north pole, likely originating from ammonia-water solution clouds, unlike Earth’s water cloud-based lightning. In this view…
Phosphorus, a key chemical element for many biological processes, has been found in icy grains emitted by the small moon and is likely abundant in…
Lighting from two times of day was combined for a stunning view of the terrain that the rover is leaving behind. After completing a major…
Cornell University’s Akshay Suresh is leading the Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS), a project focused on detecting repetitive signals from the Milky…
NASA astronauts, Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen, successfully installed a new solar array on the International Space Station during a 5-hour spacewalk, boosting power production….
Using the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), a team led by Princeton University has studied the distribution of dark matter and found a discrepancy between the ‘clumpiness’…
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA began a spacewalk at 8:42 a.m. EDT (5:42 a.m. PDT) to install an IROSA…
The Artemis II mission’s laser communication system, the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O), has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. O2O, which enhances…
Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night…