When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its
When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its
HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Landspace is targeting Q2 for a second orbital launch and booster recovery attempt and aiming for a reuse test in Q4. The attempt follows
The ‘Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North Telescope first captured Betelgeuse’s companion – nicknamed Betelbuddy – on December 9, 2024. Now, on October 8, 2025, Carnegie Mellon University researchers revealed
WASHINGTON — Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, is investing its own capital to demonstrate it can build and deploy interceptors in space for Golden Dome, a planned missile
The temperature versus depth and time for 𝜅 = 10−4 W m−1 K−1 , 10−3 W m−1 K−1, and 10−2 W m−1 K−1 (top, middle, and bottom panels). The sublimation
When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory is astronomers’ most adept tool. ALMA has delivered many images of the
WASHINGTON — NASA is no longer planning a February launch of the Artemis 2 mission after encountering hydrogen leaks during a fueling test of the Space Launch System. In a
When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would still be challenging scientists’ understanding of
Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets.
As the U.S. develops the Golden Dome missile defense architecture, one of the most controversial ideas is back on the table: interceptors in space. In theory, such interceptors could strike






