The Battle To Make U.S. States Use Satellites To Provide Rural Internet Access
The future of digital life on Earth may be decided by what happens in space.
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A Controversial Harvard Scientist Has Doubled-Down On Claims That A Mysterious Space Object Could Be An Alien UFO
You have to give it to Loeb, he's brought a fresh surge of credibility to the tatty annals of UFO lore.
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James Webb Telescope Discovers New Moon In Our Solar System
Just six miles in diameter, our little neighbor is so small that no telescope has been powerful enough to notice it orbiting around Uranus.
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Starlink Wants An Exemption From South Africa's Laws About Black Ownership
SpaceX is functionally asking for the entire telecoms industry -- not just Starlink -- to be granted the same exemptions as the automotive industry.
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China On Track To Beat NASA To Moon After Lunar Lander Test
The successful Lanyue test and last week's test firing of the Long March 10's center core show that China's lunar program is on pace to meet its deadline.
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California Coastal Commission Shoots Down Plans For More SpaceX Launches Per Year
The commission is concerned about the impacts that many sonic booms will have on both the local wildlife and neighborhoods in Santa Barbara County.
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SpaceX Pays Next To Nothing In Federal Taxes Despite Billions In Revenue
SpaceX is finally reaching the point where its financial success should be benefiting the American people.
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The Next American Space Station Might Look Very Different Due To NASA Budget Cuts
NASA will pay for any designs it approves via a funded Space Act Agreement (SAA), rather than a firm fixed price.
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Jim Lovell, Legendary Commander Of Apollo 13, Dead At 97
As one of America's Space Age space men, Lovell forged a legacy by setting a number of remarkable firsts.
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Trump Admin Wants To Destroy Satellite That Provides Vital Data To Climate Scientists And Farmers
"Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data."
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Grows More Powerful After 13 Years On Mars
Happy 13th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
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Sean Duffy's NASA Order To Put A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon Is A Lunar Land Grab
Duffy's directive orders NASA to prepare a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for launch by 2030.
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NASA Employees Now Subject To Random Searches As Agency Becomes AI-Fueled Police Mini-State
The measure seems to be out of fear that employees could engage in corporate espionage to secure new jobs before they're laid off.
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Space Force's Next Spaceplane Mission Will Test Navigation Without GPS Using Quantum Sensors
With competition for presence in and around the Moon heating up between the U.S. and China, this kind of system could be a critical capability.
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Scientists Investigate Possible Alien Origins Of Mysterious Object Streaking Through Solar System
Is alien invasion armageddon coming for us in November? No, probably not. But it's worth thinking about
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Australia's 1st Rocket Crashes 14 Seconds Into Maiden Flight
Rocket science being difficult is more than a comedic cliché. It's as hard as President Kennedy said it was in the early 1960s.
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NASA Wants To Drop Helicopter Drones On Mars To Scout For Manned Landing Sites
The mission, called Skyfall, would use a capsule to drop down towards the Martian surface, open up before it impacts, and out will fly the six helicopters.
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European Space Agency Is Building A Hypersonic Spaceplane
There have been several attempts over the decades to build a so-called Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) vehicle, but thus far, none have succeeded.
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SpaceX Whines To The Feds About Another Company Flooding Orbit With Satellites
In fairness, SpaceX may have a point. AST SpaceMobile's proposed satellites are the size of a tennis court and would be visible to the naked eye from the ground
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NASA Employees Know They Can Only Save Themselves From A Trump-Forced Turndown
287 current or former NASA employees signed a letter detailing the destructive decisions that threaten to endanger lives and harm the public good.
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Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85 Million Space Shuttle Kipnapping To Texas
When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined
In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire astronomical community's annual job.
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UFO Obsessives Are Not Happy That The Pentagon Has Been Deceiving The Public For Decades
When conspiracy theories are inevitably debunked, the debunking is quickly counter-debunked, usually with a fresh ratcheting of the whole conspiracy framework.
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You Can Buy The Largest Martian Meteorite Ever Found (And A Sick Dinosaur Skeleton Too)
Out of the 122 lots, the main event is NWA 16788, a Martian meteorite that is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
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Trump Megabill Tosses $1 Billion At Space Force's Boeing Spaceplane
The $1B dedicated to the X-35B is part of a $11.3B budget increase for Space Force amid the White House leaving civilian spaceflight on a shoestring budget.
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Boeing Is Building Next-Gen Satellites To Control America's Nukes
These satellites are the sort of thing you really hope that nobody ever has to use. But if the very worst ever happens, you'll really, really want them to work.
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Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover's Samples To Earth If NASA Can't
While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 billion.
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