Hyperspectral imagery startup Pixxel has closed $36 million in funding as it prepares to roll out new remote sensing and analytics capabilities to customers.The L.A. and Bangalore-based startup also s...
Astranis, a satellite internet startup based in San Francisco, said Wednesday that its first spacecraft completed a milestone test and will start bringing broadband access to rural Alaskans as soon as...
A UK startup has unveiled a unique system for bringing spacecraft back to Earth.The company, named Space Forge, developed the tech to provide a low-cost and sustainable way of reusing satellites. Ulti...
Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering....
A private space station company, Vast, announced on Wednesday that it intends to launch a commercial space station as soon as August 2025. After deploying this "Haven-1" space station in low-Earth orb...
Dmitry Rogozin was fired as director general of Russia's main space corporation, Roscosmos, nearly a year ago. He has spent much of the time since near the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Up until a few decades ago, the only planets we knew about were in our own Solar System, and that shaped the way we thought about planet formation and planetary chemistry. Now, with the identification...
Matt JancerEarth Day shouldn't be a one-day celebration of the planet. Make April 22 a day to consider your impact on the world and how you can make permanent changes to your lifestyle to lessen ...
[photo1]Ramin SkibbaIn the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea that NASA faked the moon landings in the 1970s o...
Hello and welcome back to Max Q!In this issue:StarshipSo long, Terran 1Three brothers want to harvest water from the moon for propellantNews from Stoke Space and more
The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission -- 'Juice' -- successfully launched today from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was supposed to take place yesterday but was post...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission -- 'Juice' -- is ready to embark on its journey to the solar system's largest planet.Juice is scheduled to launch today, April 13, ...
Each of director Makoto Shinkai's animated films has told powerful, moving stories about people trying to connect with one another both because and in spite of larger-than-life forces in the world tha...
[photo1]Katrina MillerWhen meteorologist John Haynes moved to Washington, DC, 20 years ago, he could stand on the rooftop of NASA headquarters and see airborne traces of the nearby interstate highway-...
Virgin Orbit, the low-Earth orbit small payload launch company that was spun out of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, has filed for bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss...
[photo1]Ashley Ward[photo2] Buy This Book At:Buy This Book At:Animals are sometimes described as having "supersenses," and in many instances these relate to natural p...
At this point, we've discovered lots of exoplanets that fall under the general label "Earth-like." They're rocky, and many orbit at distances from their host stars to potentially have moderate tempera...
In late 2017, our Solar System received its very first known interstellar visitor: a bizarre cigar-shaped object hurtling past at 44 kilometers per second, dubbed 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "messenger fr...
Last September, the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART, smashed a spacecraft into a small binary asteroid called Dimorphos, successfully altering its orbit around a larger companion. We're now lea...
The swift rise of internet satellites, forming megaconstellations, and accumulating space junk are already starting to mess with astronomers' research. The problem is growing exponentially, scientists...