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The British Robots Bringing Heavy Industry to Orbit
Universe Today - 10 Dec 2025 12:03
The UK is actively trying to support the infrastructure to make it a significant player in the coming age of the space economy. It recently received 560 proposals to its National Space Innovation Program, and handed out ...
Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenns path to Space Force certification
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 23:30
Lt. Gen. Phil Garrant, who leads the Space Systems Command, said Blue Origin selected the four-flight benchmark and the government agreed The post Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenns path to Space For...
How do you activate a supermassive black hole? A galaxy merger should do the trick
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 23:00
A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most.
Human evolution hits a crossroad in daring new sci-fi novel, 'Existence Equation', and we have an exclusive excerpt for you
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 22:00
Mind transfers, nanotech, and robotic innovations take center stage in this visionary 2026 book.
Rocket Lab completes final tests on reusable 'Hungry Hippo' fairing ahead of 1st Neutron rocket launch
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 21:00
Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept.
Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 21:00
The contract will focus on signals intelligence for U.S. Air Force platforms. The post Voyager wins $21 million Air Force contract for AI-driven signals processing appeared first on SpaceNews.
Multiple space companies join NATOs DIANA defense accelerator
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 20:58
NATO has picked 150 companies from 24 of its member countries to join its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic next year, including more than two dozen with ties to the space sector. The post Multiple sp...
25 Years of Space Station Technology Driving Exploration
NASA Breaking news - 10 Dec 2025 20:50
NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that...
Delivering the next generation of cloud-native, multi-orbit ground systems
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 20:46
As on-orbit capabilities grow more advanced, ground systems are undergoing a transformation of their own. Ground network specialist ST Engineering iDirect, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, is investing in new [] T...
New Results from the JWST Suggest that TRAPPIST-1e Might Have a Methane Atmosphere, Though Caution is Advised
Universe Today - 10 Dec 2025 19:29
An international team of astronomers has published a series of papers detailing their observations of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Their results, though ambiguous, are a bi...
GLOBE Expands with Landsat Land Cover Comparisons
NASA Breaking news - 10 Dec 2025 19:16
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program has launched a new feature that connects citizen scientists directly to Landsat observations.
Watch Rocket Lab launch Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 19:00
Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today (Dec. 10), and you can watch the action live.
A Supermassive Black Hole That Behaves Like The Sun
Universe Today - 10 Dec 2025 18:40
An international team of astronomers observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole NGC 3783 at speeds reaching up to 20% of the speed of light. During a ten-day observation, mainly with the XRISM ...
Helsing and Kongsberg plot multi-mission European defense space network
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 17:44
Two defense technology companies from Norway and Germany have joined forces to bolster Europes sovereign intelligence and communications capabilities, with plans to start deploying small satellites in about three years. ...
China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica-1 lofts 9 spacecraft
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 17:36
China continued a surge in launch activity with a pair of missions Tuesday, adding to an opaque satellite series and launching new remote sensing satellites. The post China launches new TJS satellite, commercial Kinetica...
Colliding space debris produces radio bursts, raising prospect of debris weather alerts
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 17:36
GOLDEN, CO - A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space.The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, as well as satellite...
Odin Space raises $3 million in seed funding
Space News - 10 Dec 2025 17:23
SAN FRANCISCO - British startup Odin Space raised $3 million in a seed round to begin commercializing tiny sensors to map and analyze sub-centimeter orbital debris. With its first sensor launched in 2023 on D-Orbits ION ...
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' clip shows off hammy acting and teen drama, putting fans on yellow alert (video)
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 17:00
Programmable matter mines swarm the U.S.S. Athena in this action-packed 4-minute preview
The JWST Just Identified A Supernova From Only 730 Million Years After The Big Bang
Universe Today - 10 Dec 2025 16:49
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the source of a super-bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst, generated by an exploding massive star when the Universe was only 730 million years old. F...
The JWST just identified a supernova from only 730 million years after the Big Bang
Phys.org - 10 Dec 2025 16:19
Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 million years old...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California on 160th Falcon 9 flight of the year (video)
SPACE.com - 10 Dec 2025 16:13
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Dec. 10, 2025. It was the 160th Falcon 9 flight of the year.
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Returns to Earth
NASA Breaking news - 10 Dec 2025 16:02
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zu...