Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025
A Southwest Research Institute-led research team has made the first detection of gas on Makemake, a distant dwarf planet in the outer Solar System, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The discovery marks Makemake as only the second trans-Neptunian object after Pluto to show confirmed gaseous emissions, identified as methane. "Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy wor

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2025
A decade after scientists first detected gravitational waves, researchers have now recorded the clearest evidence yet of how black holes behave, confirming foundational predictions from Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. The findings stem from a black hole merger observed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and analyzed by astrophysicists Maximiliano Isi and Will

New York (AFP) Sept 10, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk is at risk of losing his title as the world's wealthiest person to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, whose software giant appears poised for massive AI riches through a major deal with OpenAI. Ellison, 81, amassed about $95 billion in additional wealth Wednesday as Oracle shares skyrocketed after the nearly 50-year-old company forecast massive revenue growth thanks to la

Eutelsat has teamed up with French satellite connectivity startup Skynopy to offer Earth observation operators spare capacity on the ground stations used for OneWeb, its LEO broadband service.

Eutelsat has teamed up with French satellite connectivity startup Skynopy to explore offering Earth observation operators spare capacity on the ground stations used for OneWeb, its LEO broadband service.

A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.

The satellites, made by York Space Systems, make up the first plane of a mesh network projected to have 126 spacecraft

“The Space Force we have is not the Space Force we need” —Gen.

Japan’s IHI is broadening its push to build a sovereign Earth observation constellation, partnering with U.K.