From inflationary pressures and shifting interest rates to supply chain challenges and intensifying great-power competition, today’s macroeconomic and geopolitical forces are reshaping the future of space investment. For investors and
From inflationary pressures and shifting interest rates to supply chain challenges and intensifying great-power competition, today’s macroeconomic and geopolitical forces are reshaping the future of space investment. For investors and
WASHINGTON — The second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, carrying a NASA smallsat mission to Mars, is now expected in late October or early November. The launch of
Astronomers struggle to detect small exoplanets directly. One tool they use is to search for the effects these planets have on debris disks around stars. Clues in these disks tell
Lasers aren’t just useful for entertaining cats or pointing out features of powerpoint slides. They can also drill holes on icy extraterrestrial bodies from comets to Mars polar caps. At
A rocky visitor from beyond our solar system is leaking water like a “fire hose running at full blast,” a new study reports. Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, scientists
On 3 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars. Comet 3I/ATLAS is the slightly fuzzy white dot
Figure adapted from M. MacLeod et al. (2025) and compiled using PWMorphology. Colored circles represent confirmed exoplanets with radii greater than 1.6R⊕ from the sunset catalog shown as a function
Left panel: IFU transmission map into the 7 fibers for single orientation, with the trajectory of Proxima b overlaid on top. Right panel: IFU transmission combining 2 exposures with a
News Summary Archives Status Report Origins 2026 Organizing committee September 17, 2025 Origins 2026 (IAU Symposium 407) Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce Origins 2026 (IAU Symposium 407), jointly
Left: An interferometer with two antennas, separated by a baseline B and has a time delay between the wavefront reaching the receivers of τg. The fringe pattern is shown, with






