Constellations
Constellations
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In June 2026, the Finnish radar-satellite company Iceye raised more than a billion euros at a valuation above ten billion, a number that tracks a quieter shift — European governments increasingly buying and operating their own reconnaissance constellations rather than renting the imagery from anyone else
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In 1977, NASA mounted a gold-plated record on each Voyager probe carrying greetings in 55 languages, the sound of a kiss, and Ann Druyan’s brainwaves — a message built to survive long after the spacecraft fell silent, and possibly long after the civilization that made it.
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Iceye, a Finnish company that builds radar satellites that see through clouds and darkness, just hit a 10-billion-euro valuation — and the buyers weren't venture funds chasing the next SpaceX, but European governments preparing for a world without American satellite intelligence
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The Big Bang did not explode into empty space from a central point. It was space itself expanding everywhere at once. That is why the universe has no centre in the ordinary sense, why every galaxy sees distant galaxies moving away from its own vantage point, and why the question “where did the Big Bang happen?” has the strange but genuine answer: everywhere — including the place where you are sitting now.
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In 2026, Airi Toida and Yuichiro Ezoe modeled a sub-10-kilogram X-ray telescope that could spend two years tracing oxygen, iron, magnesium, aluminum, and silicon across the Moon, toward the complete elemental map Apollo never delivered
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At the University of Twente, Davoud Jafari's team flew 3D-printed nickel-titanium micropillars on a parabolic flight where gravity vanished for seconds at a time, testing whether an electric field alone could do the job everyone assumed only gravity could — lift boiling bubbles off a scorching surface before they smother it
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The next great space race may not be to plant flags, but to bring home the first untouched samples from Mars, Phobos, and ancient asteroids.
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W2246f sits 1.2 billion light years away with an old, quiet central kiloparsec and a still-star-forming disk, but MUSE found no recent collision or active nucleus to explain the galaxy’s split personality
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In August 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts left a small aluminum figurine and a plaque on the Moon called the Fallen Astronaut, listing fourteen Americans and Soviets who had died in the race to get there, and they said nothing about it over the radio, revealing it only after they were safely back on Earth.
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In June 2026, behind SpaceX’s plan to sell 555.6 million shares at $135 each, the $1.77 trillion question facing investors was not rockets alone, but Starlink, AI data centers, and Mars inside one company
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NASA's plan to put a nuclear reactor on a Mars-bound spacecraft by 2028 sounds impossible — until you realize the agency is quietly stitching together two programs that were never supposed to meet
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Sunsets on Mars glow blue rather than red, because the fine dust suspended in its thin air scatters sunlight so that the blue gathers into a halo around the setting sun while the rest of the sky stays yellow and orange, leaving the planet that looks rusty all day to end it with a cool blue glow.
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The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye, and the light reaching your eyes from it tonight left some 2.5 million years ago, long before our own species existed.
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Tom Mueller spent nearly two decades building the Merlin and Draco engines that helped make SpaceX possible, and now his in-space mobility company has crossed $1 billion in venture funding before its fastest vehicle has flown to geostationary orbit
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