ESA and JAXA finalize agreement on Apophis asteroid mission
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have finalized an agreement to collaborate on a mission to study the…
NASA to fly only cargo on next Starliner mission under modified contract
ALICANTE, Spain — NASA has revised its commercial crew contract with Boeing, reducing the number of CST-100 Starliner missions to four, the…
Science fiction and innovation in space
In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next…
China launches TJS-21 towards Molniya orbit, lofts trio of Shijian-30 spacecraft
HELSINKI — China conducted a pair of launches last week, adding new spacecraft to its opaque TJS and Shijian satellite series. A Long March 2C…
Amazon unveils production-ready gigabit-class Leo Ultra broadband terminal
TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon has unveiled the final production version of Leo Ultra, the company’s highest-performing enterprise terminal for the low…
Star Wars redux: the false promise of space-based missile defense
Star Wars is back in vogue with President Trump’s executive order to establish the “Golden Dome” missile defense shield. It will feature an…
Today’s biggest science news: Man dies from H5N5 bird f…
Refresh 2025-11-24T12:55:20.747Z Why cat siblings don’t look alike (Image credit: byakkaya via Getty Images) When we adopted our cat…
Florida Space Coast tops 100 launches as Space Force pushes for range upgrades
WASHINGTON — The Florida Space Coast passed a major milestone last week. The Starlink mission flown Nov. 20 marked the 100th orbital launch of…
Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe
9 Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has discovered a…
Germany outlines military space priorities in new strategy
BREMEN, Germany — A new German military space policy outlines the ambitions the country has fueled by tens of billions of euros of new…
Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Pl…
NASA‘s Perseverance rover has discovered a highly unusual rock lying on the surface of Mars. The lumpy boulder, which has a metal-rich…