The EAC-1 (top row), EAC-2 (middle row), and EAC-3 (bottom row) designs shown to relative scale. The left column shows the stowed, launch configuration for each architecture and its fit
The EAC-1 (top row), EAC-2 (middle row), and EAC-3 (bottom row) designs shown to relative scale. The left column shows the stowed, launch configuration for each architecture and its fit
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.
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A severe accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome involving a wrecked maintenance cabin has indefinitely delayed Russia’s ability to launch crewed missions and payloads to the International Space Station (ISS).
ESA’s Euclid space telescope is revealing the patterns of galaxy evolution of millions of galaxies across cosmic time. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) are using
When an interstellar comet tears through our Solar System at 250,000 kilometres per hour, pinning down its exact trajectory becomes a race against time. ESA astronomers achieved something unprecedented in
The Lion Nebula as captured by astrophotographer Ronald Brecher in October 2025. (Image credit: Ronald Brecher) A nebula takes on the appearance of a rampaging lion in a new deep
A new generation of stratospheric balloons and high-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) could soon connect the world’s unconnected with high-speed internet at a fraction of the prices commanded by operators
TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX and Amazon’s satellite constellations stand to get about 4% of the nearly $20 billion that states have proposed for rural broadband buildouts, representing roughly 21% of
James Webb Space Telescope — NASA January 23, 2026 NASA has recently begun preparations for the Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.






