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The company now counts liquid engines for hypersonic vehicles and solid rocket motors as its core lines of business. The post Ursa Major secures $100 million in new capital as it leans hard into defense work appeared fir...

Eutelsat is a step closer to the financing needed to refresh its OneWeb LEO broadband constellation, after the French operators board approved plans Nov. 18 to raise nearly $1 billion from anchor shareholders. The post E...

Galaxies grow massive through mergers with other galaxies. Massive galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda not only merge with other large galaxies, they also absorb their much smaller satellite dwarf galaxies. But the...

Let's rewind the clock backoh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day view of th...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies."

"His planet's dying, too. We're here for the same reason."

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B."

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 From Curiositys ridge-top perch among the boxwork unit, the highlight of the week was the successfu...

Written by Catherine OConnell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 We are in the most intensive phase of the boxwo...

NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Ways. NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory dat...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding these stars."

As someone deeply involved in the space sector, Ive seen firsthand how low Earth orbit (LEO) is becoming increasingly congested. Satellite operators, space agencies and aerospace companies are all facing [] The post The ...

NASA budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump will cause a significant funding shortfall to Europe's space science missions. But the European Space Agency hopes it can save them.

Dive into the dazzling depths of the universe with this galaxy-themed trivia quiz that spans cosmic facts, mysterious phenomena, and the wild wonders of deep space.

These are the Lego sets you're looking for - The UCS Lego Star Wars sets, the best of the best, ranked in a definitive round-up.

As shown by the recent SpaceNews editorials by Mustafa Bilaland Stirling Forbes, there is currently much talk of a coming lunar gold rush, with nations and companies seemingly in a mad scramble to access the moon for its...

This image shows Euclid's capability to explore both our cosmic neighborhood and the deep universe beyond.

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists have a good understanding of how these elements form: In many cases, a nucleus heavier than ir...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on characterizing other c...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly challenging. For example, there has been a debate among astronomers for decades about the path that on...