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While the existence of extra dimensions is a cool idea, it's currently not supported by any evidence

A member of the European Parliament said there is widespread support there for the proposed European Union Space Act, while acknowledging that the draft released this summer can be refined. The post European Parliament m...

Blue Origin announced a series of upgrades to New Glenn designed to increase payload performance and launch cadence, while enhancing reliability. The enhancements span propulsion, structures, avionics, reusability, and r...

A new German military space policy outlines the ambitions the country has fueled by tens of billions of euros of new spending over the next several years. The post Germany outlines military space priorities in new strate...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, flying for the first time, launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.

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Jake Korells debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, near-future technology, and the very human absurdities well bring with us when we leave Earth.

Contemporary astrophysics has, of course, vindicated Fishacre's position

Saturn will briefly lose its bling.

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what exactly happened afterward has...

The surface of the Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond our observable hor...