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Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is scheduled to loft a powerful Earth-observing satellite today (Nov. 4) on its fourth-ever launch, and you can watch the action live.

The White House said Nov. 4 it is renominating Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, the latest twist in an unprecedented saga over the agencys leadership. The post White House renominates Isaacman to be NASA administ...

Video: 01:17:22 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board anAriane 6rocketfromEuropes Spaceport inFrenc...

Rocky exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs are in a tough spot. Their stars are known for violent flaring that can destroy their atmospheres. But it's possible that asteroid impacts could later recreate their atmospheres.

Telesat is preparing to deploy a couple of Lightspeed pathfinders in December 2026, with 96 satellites for an initial global broadband service from LEO set to launch the following year to offset mounting geostationary bu...

An Ariane 6 successfully launched a radar imaging satellite Nov. 4 after European agencies chose to use a larger rocket to ensure an earlier launch. The post Ariane 6 launches Sentinel-1D radar imaging satellite appeared...

The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. Besides doing research, he is kee...

"This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s."

China's Shenzhou 20 and 21 astronauts enjoyed freshly cooked BBQ aboard the Tiangong space station recently, thanks to a new microgravity oven.

London - Warsaw Increasing tensions with Russia have prompted defense spending boosts throughout Europe that will benefit fledgling smallsat launcher companies across the continent. But Europe is still years away from me...

SES has turned to Japans flagship operator for extra satellite bandwidth to keep up with soaring connectivity demand from passengers flying across Asia, even after significantly expanding its own fleet by buying Intelsat...

Scientists have set about discovering if dark matter behaves like ordinary matter in the cosmos, with the answer revealing more about this mysterious "stuff" and casting doubt on the existence of a fifth fundamen...

Predator: Badlands tells a surprisingly human story of self-acceptance through the lens of sci-fi's most brutal hunter.

Cosmic inflation helps black holes grow quickly, but it can't explain how supermassive black holes grew to billions of solar masses in less than 500 million years.

Sovereign Control and Precision Intelligence Set to Lead Global Priorities Paris, France [October, 2025] - Novaspaces 18th edition of the Earth Observation Data and Services Market report signals a decisive [] The post G...

A new report outlines the benefits and obstacles to a lunar telescope. It comes from the Keck Institute for Space Studies, and presents an idea for a lunar optical interferometer. The authors say it could outperform powe...

From 7 to 10 October 2025, Europe and Africa took another important step toward deepening their cooperation in space. At the ESA Education Training and Learning Facility in ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium, young engineers from acr...

Several new missions to Venus are expected in the late 2020s and early 2030s, but some of them depend on funding that may not materialize.

This quiz dives into the mysterious world of dark matter - what we know, what we don't, and how scientists are chasing shadows across the cosmos.

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more than 4 million suns. Nearly all galaxies contain a supermassive black hole, and many of them are m...

From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed space exploration as a race. As U.S.-China space competition intensifies, so ...