California-based Astranis is helping drive a shift in the satellite industry as compact platforms gain ground in a geostationary market long challenged by the rise of low Earth orbit (LEO)
California-based Astranis is helping drive a shift in the satellite industry as compact platforms gain ground in a geostationary market long challenged by the rise of low Earth orbit (LEO)
Eccentricity of inner super-Earth vs. the semimajor axis ratio between the outer cold Jupiter and the inner super-Earth from observations, with the color of the symbol showing the semimajor axis
There seems to be a magic in the very name of “Star Trek,” something franchise luminary Jonathan Frakes is well aware of. He first immersed himself in its indelible charms
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A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off
As space operations grow in the United States, we face a bottleneck: the limited capacity of coastal spaceports. While Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg remain effective for the nation, these launch
If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling through space as an explorer, you know there’ll be some serious “downside dangers”. One of them is cosmic rays. These high-speed particles slam through
After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of five astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday.
A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The