Shortly after space week in October, investment firm JP Morgan announced a $10 billion investment plan targeting industries critical for United States national security. In addition to things like nanomaterials, autonomous robotics and solar power, the announcement
Dark matter could tint light passing through it, depending on the model. While the effect is tiny, it is just on the edge of our ability to detect it.
All sorts of crazy things have been suggested regarding 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object that we’ve discovered. Some are simply conspiracy theories about it being an alien spacecraft, while
SpaceX is rapidly advancing its Starship assembly and launch infrastructure at its Roberts Road site, as revealed by recent aerial photography from NSF. Progress is notable on several crucial elements,
WASHINGTON — Array Labs, a Silicon Valley startup developing radar-based Earth observation satellites, announced Jan. 5 it raised $20 million in a Series A round as it pushes to bring
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force announced Jan. 9 it awarded SpaceX nine national security space launch missions worth $739 million, issuing task orders under the National Security Space Launch
Portrait of Edmond Halley circa 1687 by Thomas Murray. Halley is famous for discovering that comets are objects that orbit the sun and can reappear in our skies. Halley’s Comet
PHOENIX — An unspecified “medical concern” involving one of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station has postponed a spacewalk and could force an unprecedented early return of part of
As Europe prepares its next generation of Earth-Observation (EO) missions, a less visible but equally strategic challenge unfolds on the ground — how to manage the growing complexity of satellite
Radius evolution for a metal-enriched planet (Z=0.1) as computed with our approach (square points) versus the planetsynth models of M¨uller & Helled (2021) (solid curves; note that they employ a
