Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in June 2024 during a mission that NASA now classifies as its most serious “Type A mishap” due to thruster failures and leadership failures.
SpaceX unveiled the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system which leverages its vast Starlink satellite constellation to deliver near-real-time orbital tracking
The US Department of Defense is turning to the commercial space sector for a new generation of surveillance spacecraft capable
German researchers at TUM, LMU, and Max Planck Institutes have captured a rare supernova that appears five times in the sky due to gravitational lensing. The discovery, nicknamed SN Winny, offers a new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate and could help resolve the long-standing Hubble tension between different measurement methods.
NASA is preparing for a critical milestone in its return-to-the-Moon campaign, targeting February 19 as the next tanking day for
Chinese military-linked researchers have called for deeper integration between the country’s commercial space technology and its defence systems. The scholars
University of Florida scientists have solved the mystery of Antarctica’s “gravity hole”—a region where gravity is weaker than anywhere else on Earth. Using earthquake waves and computer models, they traced its formation back 70 million years. The research shows a connection between deep underground rock movements and the growth of Antarctica’s massive ice sheets.
Scientists at the SETI Institute have a new idea about Saturn’s giant moon Titan. It might have formed when two smaller moons crashed together and merged. The violent collision would explain Titan’s few craters, its strange orbit, and even the age of Saturn’s famous rings. NASA’s Dragonfly mission heading to Titan in 2034 could prove this theory right.
A mysterious ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, known as the ‘Sun Goddess’ particle, is puzzling scientists worldwide. Officially called the Amaterasu particle,
ArianeGroup is set to launch the first four‑booster Ariane 64 on February 12, 2026, from French Guiana, deploying 32 Amazon Kuiper satellites. Twice as powerful as Ariane 62, the €4 billion program involves 13 ESA nations and 600 subcontractors. CTO Hervé Gilibert called it “something new for us on Ariane 6” as Europe challenges SpaceX with halved operating costs and a 30‑launch order book.
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