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Now NASA Is Closing Its Biggest Library, Some Of Which Could Be Lost Forever
At the start of 2022, the space agency had eleven libraries; as of Friday, it's now down to just three.
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Scientists Find 26 Whole New Bacteria Species In NASA's Supposedly Sterile Cleanrooms Which Could Invade Mars
Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who would be the invaders.
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The Biggest Satellite Ever Just Reached Low-Earth Orbit, And It's Coming For Starlink
The BlueBird 6 from Texas-based AST SpaceMobile comes in at a full 2,400 square feet, or about the size of a three-bedroom apartment.
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Artemis II Set For Early 2026 Launch After Rehearsal
While you were likely scrambling to buy last-minute Christmas presents, NASA completed a vital rehearsal for its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon.
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What Does Jared Isaacman, NASA's New Administrator, Have Planned For The Beleaguered Agency?
After an initial failure to launch, billionaire Jared Isaacman has finally been confirmed as the new administrator for NASA
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Fare Thee Well, 3I/ATLAS: The Interstellar Comet Has Come As Close As It Ever Will
Last Friday, the interstellar comet designated 3I/ATLAS completed its closest approach to Earth without crashing into us or depositing an invading armada.
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Trump Pens Executive Order Setting 2028 Moon Landing Like It Means Anything
Outside of asking the NASA Administrator to reform the agency's acquisition process, the executive order is effectively meaningless.
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Starlink Almost Had An In-Orbit Collision With A Chinese-Launched Satellite, And It's Only Getting Worse From Here
In space terms, they basically high-fived. It could have been so much worse.
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Space Force Uses Magic: The Gathering-Style Cards To Announce The War Names For Its Satellites
You've really got to see the cards to believe them.
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Tom Cruise's Space Movie Reportedly Died Because He Refused To Beg Trump For Permission To Shoot It In Space
We are still getting a "Days of Thunder" sequel, so at least there's that.
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Satellite Constellations May Ruin Up To 96% Of Astronomy Pictures Even From Telescopes In Space
NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in them.
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Congress Proposes A New Space Agency, The National Institute For Space Research
This bill is a good first step at a course correction, but at the end of the day, a race can only be won if you choose to win it.
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Controversial Scientist Avi Loeb Is Lashing Out At NASA And Other Researchers As 3I/ATLAS Zooms Through Solar System
Scientists who, studying the available data, have concluded that 3I/ATLAS is, to paraphrase, a comet doing comet things.
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NASA Scales Back Missions With Boeing's Starliner After Last Year's Astronaut Stranding
Despite it all, the Starliner capsule pushes onwards. It ought to be putting astronauts on the ISS again in the next few years.
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At The Edge Of Our Solar System, NASA's Voyager 1 Found A 'Wall Of Fire'
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun’s magnetic influence marks the boundary of our solar system.
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China Sets Launch Date To Replace Debris-Damaged Spacecraft In Orbit
Three taikonauts have been stranded on the Tiangong space station for the past five days.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Completes First Mission, Begins Direct Competition With SpaceX
The mission involved delivering a real (not test) payload into low-Earth orbit and then landing its first-stage rocket on a drone boat.
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So It Turns Out Most Satellites Don't Encrypt Your Data, And Anyone Can Listen In
That is, in technical terms, very bad.
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Catching Asteroids In A Bag Could Be The New Panning For Gold
TransAstra already has a dozen ground-based telescopes searching for mining-suitable asteroids.
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Scientists Are Now Bickering About Whether 3I/ATLAS Exploded When It Zoomed By The Sun
Alien spacecraft, weird comet, or something else?
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Google Is Considering Putting AI Data Centers Into Space
Google's parent company Alphabet has already put the robots on your streets with Waymo, but that clearly wasn't ambitious enough.
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China Delays Spacecraft Return Indefinitely Over Debris Damage Fears
The three taikonauts will remain in space without a set alternative return date while the agency assesses the situation.
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Sean Duffy Might Have Leaked A Billionaire Private Astronaut's Plan In Desperate Bid To Save His Job At NASA
The leak appeared to be an attempt to derail any attempt to renominate Isaacman, allowing Duffy to continue as interim administrator at a minimum.
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Mysterious 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Object Continues To Do Weird Stuff And Encourage Wild Speculation
The interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS is continuing its journey through the Solar System.
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NASA Has Been Implementing Huge Budget Cuts That Congress Might Not Actually Make
It's hard to see exactly what the goal is here; one might argue that it seems to be chaos for chaos' sake.
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NASA Will Re-Open Contract For Moon Lander As Starship Falls Behind Schedule
The Artemis III mission is scheduled for a 2027 launch. Starship currently seems unlikely to meet that timeframe.
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SpaceX Has Now Sent 10,000 Starlink Satellites Into Space
The Starlink constellation now accounts for two-thirds of all working satellites.
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