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August 4, 2026
The astronaut pipeline that once inspired millions may be quietly shrinking, even as NASA celebrates its most gender-balanced class yet. The post The 2025 astronaut class is NASA’s first with more…
Arctic communications award will fund an expansion of Telesat’s Lightspeed, taking the planned LEO network to 225 spacecraft The post Telesat lands $1.63 billion Canadian defense contract appeared…
SpaceX plans to launch three of AST SpaceMobile's huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites early on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5), and you can watch the action live.
Using continuous imagery from NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an…
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SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.
The Defence Investment Agency awarded a $2.3-billion initial contract to Telesat on Tuesday to deliver the first phase of the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project-Polar (ESCP-P). Telesat isn’t…
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If you happen to see “strange lights in a row in the sky,” they're nothing more than SpaceX Starlink satellites. Here's how to spot them with…
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
L3Harris Technologies confirmed a successful deployment for its first perimeter truss reflector onboard the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 satellite. SpaceX launched the satellite in late April, the third…
Spanish satellite startup Kreios Space is set to demonstrate an air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) system in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), tapping Kongsberg NanoAvionics to provide the…
Kelvin–Helmholtz waves may help the solar wind strip atmospheric particles from Mars. Mars is continually exposed to a stream of charged particles racing outward from the Sun. Earth’s global…
The Expedition 75 crew continued preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday to augment the International Space Station’s power system. The orbital residents also installed advanced Earth…
After a previously targeted launch date in November, NASA has moved up the next International… The post Crew-13 pilot reflects on career, training, and upcoming science ahead of flight to ISS…
The world's most popular spirit isn't what you think—and most drinkers have never heard of it. The post The world’s best-selling spirit brand is not a Scottish whisky, a Russian vodka or a Cuban rum…
Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the…
Telesat signed a $1.9 billion (U.S. dollar) contract with the government of Canada for Arctic military satcom connectivity and will expand the Lightspeed constellation by 69 satellites to fulfill…
A new startup Endeavor Optical Networks emerged from stealth on Tuesday, with a plan to build an optical satellite network in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) for space-based data transfer. The company […]…
The space around Earth is becoming increasingly crowded, with thousands of satellites and pieces of debris now sharing low Earth orbit. Even above this region—at altitudes of several hundred…
AE Industrial closed its purchase of a majority stake in L3Harris’ space propulsion business and plans to re-establish it as Rocketdyne, a nod to its more than 60 years of heritage as a rocket…
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an…
When wildfire smoke turns the sky into something unrecognizable, it forces a reckoning between the scientific and the visceral. The post I watched the sky over a wildfire evacuation near Toledo turn…
In Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, or Nice, are the places where people gather for a World Cup final on a big screen, or a major public concert, well suited to observing…
The night sky is littered with galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters — if only we had eyes large enough to see them. Fortunately, cameras and telescopes can see what our eyes cannot. It can be hard…
Meet the citizen scientist initiative bringing you closer to totality.
Your guide to August's full Sturgeon Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting Sept. 12 for the launch of the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which includes Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk embarking on…
SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit today (Aug. 4), on the 90th Falcon 9 rocket flight of 2026.
<p><span style="background-color: #2b00fe; color: white;">They heard an 'impossible noise' in 2003, 2005 and 2008; decades later, science still seeks an explanation. The noise…
As noted in Section 7.3 of ROSES-25 A.1 Earth Science Research Overview, “High-end computing, networking, and storage are critical enabling capabilities for Earth system science…and maintains…
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Danielle Lopez, Jennifer Claudio, and Duncan Mifsud. Their commitment to the NASA mission…
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