American satellite imaging companies are witnessing a boom in demand from unexpected customers: those based abroad. Earth observation satellite operators such as Maxar Intelligence, BlackSky, Planet Labs and Capella Space
American satellite imaging companies are witnessing a boom in demand from unexpected customers: those based abroad. Earth observation satellite operators such as Maxar Intelligence, BlackSky, Planet Labs and Capella Space
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will launch six people to suborbital space today (June 21), and you can watch the action live. The mission — known as NS-33, because it will
Peek into the cosmos with Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, where the universe unfolds in bite-sized delights. Authored by the brilliant Neil deGrasse Tyson, the book is your passport
HELSINKI — China carried out a successful pad abort test early Tuesday for its next-generation crew spacecraft for moon and low Earth orbit missions. China conducted the zero-altitude, or pad
Look up — or rather, down — tonight to spot the lowest full moon in nearly two decades. This month’s full moon will ride low on the southern horizon thanks
WASHINGTON — Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder used to determine altitude during its descent. At a
Air eDNA is vacuumed up from Dublin using simple laboratory equipment and an air filter. — Nature Ecology & Evolution Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of
The amount of data that will be collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which released its fabulous first-light images this week, will far outweigh what any telescope before it
This Orpheus AUV is the first of many to be built and operated by Orpheus Ocean. Capable of reaching the ocean’s greatest depths, the Orpheus-class of vehicle was first designed
A 3D image obtained by X-ray microtomography of a macroscopic multicellular organism dated to 2.1 billion years ago (Francevillian Basin, Gabon). Scale bar = 1 cm. Credit Arnaud Mazurier and






