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August 26, 2026
One axion-dark-energy model hides a negative cosmological constant beneath today’s acceleration, producing an 11-billion-year turnaround and a 33.3-billion-year lifespan. The post After two decades…
August 25, 2026
Jupiter accounts for almost all the mass left over after the Sun; understand the math and see the comparison with a one-kilogram bag of flour…
Gemini classified real and bogus candidates across three optical surveys from only 15 in-context examples each, but speed, cost and explanation fidelity still limit deployment. The post Researchers…
A whale that last balanced prey on its head in 1987 has suddenly revived the trick, raising an unsettling question: what else do orcas remember across decades of silence? The post Killer whales in…
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The facility will be built in Vermilion Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and is expected to become the company's largest space operations center The post SpaceX to invest R$514 billion in…
ESA tracks more than 46,000 objects and 17,000 tonnes in orbit; understand Kessler syndrome and the tracking done in Brazil The post See how much space debris is in Earth orbit today…
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LATAM will expand its onboard Wi-Fi offering by installing multi-orbit satellite connectivity on more than 60 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft. The initiative involves an investment exceeding…
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation…
The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:34 a.m. PDT (5:34 a.m. EDT / 0934 UTC).
SpaceX announced plans today to build a second Starbase, this one on the coast of Louisiana. All Starship launches to date have been from Starbase, TX. They will soon begin […]
SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely.
A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base. The post China’s water-hunting Moon mission was…
Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offer a new view…
Lyntris was formed earlier this year when Vitesse Systems combined with Accelint to form a new defense tech company. The combined company supports defense and national security missions across…
Film | Grades 6-12+ | This educational film explores eclipse participatory science, helping intermediate and advanced students understand the Sun's atmosphere, corona, and solar eclipses. The post…
More than five decades after the Apollo missions, images from the LRO reveal the fate of the flags left by astronauts on the lunar surface. The post What's left of the flags astronauts…
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Impulse Space has three rideshare missions to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) fully booked through 2028 and is looking at increasing the rideshare missions to twice as a […] The…
Two slight moon tilts helped constrain Io's earlier orbit, a vanished disk edge and Jupiter's still-expanded state near the end of the solar nebula. The post Just 3.8 million years after the solar…
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Edge Aerospace is scaling its manufacturing in the U.S. through a licensing agreement with Redwire under which Redwire will manufacture Edge’s data processing units (DPUs) and…
Multimedia | Grades 6-12+ | This multimedia film and interactive visualization explores the Sun's life cycle, activity, and energy for middle and high school physics lessons. The post Journey to the…
A specialist explains everything you need to know about this week's event and reveals when Brazil will see a total lunar eclipse…
Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Tuesday, (Aug. 25), installing a replacement Space-to-Ground antenna on the outside of the International Space Station.
Webb turned weak distortions in roughly 250,000 usable galaxy shapes into a one-arcminute map of the dark-dominated mass threading the COSMOS field. The post Webb has produced the highest-resolution…
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived Tuesday to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy’s Space Center in Florida, just days before its scheduled launch. The post NASA’s Nancy…
SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a sprawling new Starship launch site in Louisiana with 10 launch… The post SpaceX plans $100B Louisiana Starship spaceport with 10 launch pads appeared first…
Activity/Guide | Grades K-5 | This hands-on activity and educator guide introduces elementary students to solar physics through engaging art projects, exploring the active Sun, corona, and plasma…
NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its LunaRecycle Challenge on Friday, Aug. 28, at The University of Alabama (UA) Lee Styslinger College of Engineering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama…
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions said its space business growth is growing… The post Kratos: Space-dominated KGS division organic revenue up 22% in Q2, and 36.4% including…
We chat to author Mike Diver about this complete chronicle of Alien video games.
Company’s plans to wind down its workhorse rocket may prompt delays and safety concerns for airspace users.
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