NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations program isn’t just behind schedule. It’s drifting toward a failure that could end America’s continuous presence in low Earth orbit for the first time in over two decades — and hand that strategic territory to China, whose Tiangong station is already operational and expanding. The CLD program was supposed […]

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Every year, Congress rescues NASA’s science programs from the budget axe. And every year, the rescue comes a little later, costs a little more political capital, and leaves a little more scar tissue on the institution it’s supposed to protect. Scientists leave for more stable careers. International partners hedge their commitments. Early-career researchers look at […]

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Improving the accuracy of space situational awareness data and using tighter thresholds for potential conjunctions can help retire most satellite collision risk in LEO, a new study concludes.

An Israeli drone strike reportedly killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah in Gaza on Wednesday, bringing the journalist death toll to 262 and sharpening a question that press freedom organizations have been raising with increasing urgency: whether the unprecedented rate of journalist deaths in this conflict can still be explained as a tragic byproduct of […]

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A Nobel Peace Prize laureate is about to be classified alongside terrorist organizations. That is the reality facing Memorial, the storied Russian human rights group, as the country’s Supreme Court prepares to rule on a Ministry of Justice petition to designate it an “extremist organisation” — a legal classification that would criminalize any contact with […]

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People who thrive in chaos aren't adrenaline junkies — they're running nervous systems that were trained by unstable childhoods to treat calm as the precursor to catastrophe. New neuroscience research reveals why stability feels threatening when it was the thing that kept betraying you.

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A flurry of commercial innovation has left the U.S. government with no shortage of sensors and AI-driven insights to monitor the increasingly packed and contested space environment.

Sassoon Dock, the historic fishing hub that has anchored Mumbai’s maritime economy since the British colonial era, sits largely empty as a fuel crisis driven by weeks of escalating conflict in the Middle East has made it too expensive for boats to leave shore. Diesel prices for India’s fishing fleet have surged significantly, reaching price […]

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An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural model of its huge radar antenna – a key step towards preparing this new satellite for launch and its mission to monitor Earth’s land, oceans and ice from orbit.