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July 27, 2026
The 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket went pretty well —and provided some amazing visuals, too. See the highlights here.
A new study using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40…
Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the…
Five orbital launches are scheduled worldwide for this week. In China, a Chang Zheng 6A… The post Launch Preview: Falcon 9 and Chang Zheng rockets set to launch this week appeared first on…
TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite operators have welcomed the prospect of reaping more than $6 billion for quickly clearing upper C-band spectrum the FCC aims to auction next year, with billions […] The post…
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Indra Group of Spain said its space division, which since January has… The post Indra Group: Space division is on track to reach $455M in revenue this year appeared first on Space…
The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares…
Award covers mission planning software for ESS next-generation strategic communications satellites The post Sphinx Defense wins $287 million contract for strategic satellite communications software…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson…
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NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to…
Time to fire up the Wayback Machine to pay tribute to this controversial sci-fi reimagining.
Rocket Lab [RKLB] on Monday said a recent $266 million contract it received from the Space Force is the company’s largest ever launch contract, which calls for at least 12 […]
Welcome to Issue 19 of the In Defence of Canada Briefing. This week’s issue highlights an important theme: the need for resilient foundations—both in public support and physical infrastructure—to…
MDA Space has priced a $600-million private placement of senior unsecured notes to fund its acquisition of U.S. satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), capping off a month of…
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Keith’s note: OSTP and the White House press office issued a space policy video focusing on aliens – of all kinds. Artemis II gets a clear shout out. Waiting to […] The post White House Issues A New…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in a remote area near the…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan…
Startups that have developed brilliant ideas for the use of space will take part in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Industry Space Days (ISD) event, scheduled for 16 and 17 September…
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had…
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Amazon’s regulatory filing for a direct-to-device constellation of up to 5,105 satellites… The post Amazon details 5,105-satellite D2D constellation, says it will work in tandem…
Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ripped apart
The Council on Foreign Relations visited Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June, 26, 2026.<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jul/27/2003967987/300/300/0/260626-F-AF000-1003.JPG'…
Between biosignatures and technosignatures lie noosignatures, and some scientists think they could help us find alien life someday.
The event brought together U.S. and Five Eyes coalition space operators, system experts, and intelligence professionals to analyze adversary tactics and develop actionable defensive solutions.<br/>…
SpaceX performed a secret test on a specific portion of Starship with its recent 13th test flight last week, CEO Elon Musk revealed. Starship’s 13th test flight took place last Friday, and in many…
We’re incredibly proud of Dr. Robert Morrow, Sierra Space’s Lead Plant Scientist, who has been awarded the prestigious AIAA Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award for his…
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station, which lies within the areas heavily affected by the wildfires in Spain.
