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This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 13:00
In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light.
LeoLabs lands interagency contract to feed TraCSS and track adversarial spacecraft
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 14:01
LeoLabs has won an interagency contract to provide space-surveillance data for the U.S. government, supporting adversarial spacecraft monitoring and the TraCSS orbital traffic coordination platform due to enter full serv...
Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 12:11
The company is adapting commercial thermal-sensing tech for military applications The post Muon Space to develop sensor payload for missile defense satellites appeared first on SpaceNews.
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is Complete!
Universe Today - 9 Dec 2025 22:38
Construction is complete on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and its ahead of schedule. After extensive testing, the new flagship telescope should be ready to launch in Fall, 2026.
The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 22:16
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.
NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 21:58
NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas. The demonstration, held at NASAs Ames Research Cen...
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 21:54
In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission-1 landers engine plumes and the lunar surface. Through NASAs Artemis campaig...
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 21:07
Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot ga...
This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen. Could it be from an elusive class of black hole?
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 21:00
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."
Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 19:07
Two Shenzhou-21 astronauts embarked on the missions first spacewalk late Monday, inspecting and photographing a damaged spacecraft window which triggered an earlier emergency launch. The post Chinese astronauts inspect d...
Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during 8-hour spacewalk (video)
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 19:00
Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9).
Sprites Over Château de Beynac
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 18:24
A flash of lightning, and then-something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in ...
Canada picks Telesat and MDA to study Arctic military communications constellation
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 18:13
Canada has contracted satellite operator Telesat and manufacturer MDA Space to explore options for a multibillion-dollar military communications network to support the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. The post Canada...
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 17:08
Called AVIRIS-5, its the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the sk...
SCHOTT launches high-performance cover glass for next-generation space solar cells
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 16:21
- SCHOTT Solar Glass exos provides enhanced radiation resistance and optical performance for simple silicon cells up to III-V multijunction satellite solar cells.- Jointly developed with Heilbronn-based AZUR SPACE Solar ...
What Do Super Jupiters Look Like?
Universe Today - 9 Dec 2025 16:18
Super-Jupiters have masses a dozen times that of Jupiter, but they are often illustrated as having a very Jupiter-like appearance. A new study finds that the classic banded-cloud look of Jupiter is very different from th...
1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs of life, report says
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 16:01
Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies.
K-DRIFT pathfinder: A compact telescope for observing faint galactic structures
Phys.org - 9 Dec 2025 15:50
Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying galaxy evolution. Now, researchers have developed a new telescope system featuring a confocal off...
New NASA sensor goes hunting for critical minerals
Phys.org - 9 Dec 2025 15:41
Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth's surface some 60,000 feet below...
How Louisiana Native Turned Childhood Wonder into NASA Stennis Career
NASA Breaking news - 9 Dec 2025 15:00
Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa, Louisiana, native joined her dad for Father/Dau...
From Bezos to beyond: Blue Origin quiz
SPACE.com - 9 Dec 2025 15:00
Whether you're a casual fan or a spaceflight enthusiast, see how well you know one of the companies pushing the boundaries of commercial space travel.
TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services
Space News - 9 Dec 2025 15:00
Startup leans on C-band architecture to separate from L-band competitors The post TrustPoint sets 2027 target for initial rollout of LEO-based navigation services appeared first on SpaceNews.