WASHINGTON — NASA is targeting a March 6 launch for Artemis 2 after completing a countdown test with few problems. At a Feb. 20 briefing, NASA officials said the outcome
WASHINGTON — NASA is targeting a March 6 launch for Artemis 2 after completing a countdown test with few problems. At a Feb. 20 briefing, NASA officials said the outcome
For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an
Imagine, if you will, a journey beyond the confines of our earthly existence, where the wonders of the cosmos unfold before our eyes. In “There’s No Place Like Space!,” the
If the United States wants to defend the homeland against the next generation of missile and aerial threats, hardware alone will not save us. Sensors, radars and interceptors are necessary
WASHINGTON — Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest defense contractor, is weighing a potential acquisition of Munich-based laser communications terminal maker Mynaric, a move that could upend Rocket Lab’s previously announced plan to
Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed
February 24, 2026 – Washington, DC – The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is proud to announce the release of a new paper titled “Perfecting Public-Private Partnerships: The Future of Government
A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ground-based astronomy, perhaps
Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C.
2 min read Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here,






