A pool of water dominated by microbialites in South Africa’s Eastern Cape (Credit: Rachel Sipler). South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained
A pool of water dominated by microbialites in South Africa’s Eastern Cape (Credit: Rachel Sipler). South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained
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HELSINKI — China reached 90 orbital launches in 2025 with consecutive Long March missions deploying Guowang megaconstellation satellites and the advanced Fengyun-4C weather spacecraft. A Long March 8A lifted off
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA’s US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been
Exoplanets under consideration for the Rocky Worlds DDT. Planets above the cosmic shoreline are expected to have lost their atmosphere. The circled exoplanets have already been observed in emission during
The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane is carrying a sample of material that could some day help NASA land cargo and crew on Mars. The X-37B launched on its
Smacking a planet-threatening asteroid comes with big responsibility. If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a “gravitational keyhole”
In Tenerife, Spain, stands a unique duo: ESA’s Izaña-1 and Izaña-2 laser-ranging stations. Together, they form an optical technology testbed of the European Space Agency that takes the monitoring of
ASGSR 2025 The American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) Fellows Committee is now accepting nominations for the ASGSR Fellows Program. The distinction of Fellow is awarded by the
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft, stands in a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday,






