Through missions currently on the books for the Japan Space Agency JAXA, the U.S. Space Force, European Space Agency, UK Space Agency and Eutelsat OneWeb, the Tokyo-based on-orbit servicing company
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Science & Exploration 20/11/2025 290 views 6 likes Smile has passed its qualification and flight acceptance review, meaning that it meets all requirements for launch. The launch window has been
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless
In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark matter—holding
It’s almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have “extended missions”. Both Voyagers are still sending data back 40+ years after their 5-year primary mission ended. But
HELSINKI — Three Chinese astronauts have safely returned to Earth in the recently-launched Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after their own spacecraft was declared unsafe. The Shenzhou-21 return module touched down at 3:40
Using in-situ propellant has been a central pillar of the plan to explore much of the solar system. The logic is simple – the less mass (especially in the form
Comparison of the star properties of “K dwarfs” to Sun-like “G dwarfs” (third and fourth from left). Reproduced through CC-licensing from the work by J.-V. Harre and R. Heller (2021,
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537—the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen
The magnetopause standoff distance of a planet orbiting our stellar sample. The theoretical decay of the Parker model (blue) and that measured in the solar system (red) are used in
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