The evening sky in the last week of May 2026 is doing several things at once, none of which is, on close examination, particularly rare in isolation, but the…
The Hubble Space Telescope returned to science operations on 14 June 2024 in a new pointing configuration that uses one of its three remaining gyroscopes instead of three.
On the morning of 8 January 2025, a red dot appeared on NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System.
Preliminary results from a study presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna earlier this month suggest that Venus-like planets…
On 15 August 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University recorded a narrowband radio signal that lasted roughly 72 seconds.
The White House's fiscal year 2027 budget request for NASA, released on 3 April, proposes cutting the agency's total funding from $24.4 billion to $18.8 billion, a reduction of roughly 23 percent.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard computers built in the 1970s, had stopped…
Sergei Krikalev launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in May 1991 as a Soviet citizen.
One of the more durable mysteries in evolutionary biology is why, across every human culture ever studied, approximately 90 percent of the population prefers to use their right hand.
The standard cultural framing of Tyrannosaurus rex's famously tiny arms has, for over a century, treated them as one of the small jokes evolution has played on an otherwise terrifying animal.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 metres into the Earth's crust before heat and ductile rock defeated Soviet drillers in 1992. The record still stands, and the welded cap still sits on a hillside in northern Russia.
A joint European-Chinese satellite designed to image Earth's magnetic shield in X-rays for the first time reached orbit early Tuesday, opening a new front in…
SpaceX filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, opening the books on a company that booked $18.7 billion in 2025 revenue and is now seeking to raise up to $80 billion at a $2 trillion valuation.
On the International Space Station, a day is ninety minutes long, which means every fundamental human ritual — sleep, prayer, birthday cake — has to be deliberately invented from scratch.
The satellite industry's favorite word right now is resilience. The argument sounds simple enough: if one orbit fails, use another.
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a narrow but revealing experiment: Lynk Global will test satellite direct-to-device links using Anterix’s…
