Companies make the case for commercial space station markets
Thursday, 16 April 2026 20:42
Companies proposing to develop commercial space stations are pushing back against claims by NASA that a market for such stations has yet to develop.
From sunsets to the night sky: How technology can help you to notice nature in new ways
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The Last Convoy Out: How Twelve Years of American Military Presence in Syria Quietly Unraveled
Thursday, 16 April 2026 18:05
The last American military convoy crossed from northeastern Syria into Jordan on April 24, 2025, ending a twelve-year chapter of US military involvement in the country. The withdrawal, carried out over roughly two months beginning in late February, saw US forces vacate at least seven known operating bases across the northeast, including key installations near […]
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Boeing and its subsidiary Millennium Space team on new mid-size satellite
Thursday, 16 April 2026 17:39
The new satellite platform is being positioned to compete in the emerging “micro GEO” market for space-based communications and sensing
All Points signs agreement to build payload processing facilities at KSC
Thursday, 16 April 2026 17:04
All Points Logistics has signed an agreement with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to construct satellite processing facilities on center property.
Boots on the moon and beyond. Where next after Artemis II mission success?
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A 10-Day Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon Looks Historic — But the Math Doesn’t Add Up
Thursday, 16 April 2026 16:37
Reports have emerged of a potential 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, following weeks of escalating violence in the region. The proposed truce would represent a temporary halt to fighting that has resulted in significant civilian casualties and displacement. But the agreement’s fundamental flaw is not its brevity — it’s that the ceasefire excludes Hezbollah, […]
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How space weather forecasting keeps astronauts (and satellites) safe
Thursday, 16 April 2026 15:30
NASA seeks commercial and exploration links for new Earth science missions
Thursday, 16 April 2026 14:59
The optimism in the space economy with Alyssa Goessler
Thursday, 16 April 2026 14:23
In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Alyssa Goessler on what’s driving the optimism in the space economy.
Yemen’s Education Crisis Runs Deeper Than Destroyed Schools — It’s a Crisis of Belief
Thursday, 16 April 2026 13:06
A 14-year-old boy named Qasim wakes at 7am in Sanaa, grabs a white sack, and spends his morning collecting plastic bottles. Qasim told Al Jazeera that a full sack earns him enough to help feed his six-member family. His 12-year-old brother Asem takes the afternoon shift. Neither attends school anymore. Qasim dropped out in the […]
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DESI’s 47 Million Galaxy Map Is Done — And Its Dark Energy Findings Could Force a Rewrite of Cosmology
Thursday, 16 April 2026 12:36
DESI’s complete galaxy map suggests dark energy may be weakening, contradicting 25 years of cosmological assumptions. If the signal holds up in the full five-year dataset now in hand, it would represent the most significant discovery in cosmology since dark energy itself was identified in the late 1990s — and force a fundamental rewrite of […]
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Artemis 2 is a benchmark in our space exploration program — and it depends on steady NASA funding
Thursday, 16 April 2026 12:00
Now that the Artemis 2 mission has been successfully completed, it’s worth taking a look at where NASA stands on the role of humans in exploring space and what its path forward should be.
How China Is Engineering a Multi-Front Leverage Architecture Ahead of the Trump-Xi Summit
Thursday, 16 April 2026 11:06
Beijing is not simply preparing for a summit. It is constructing something more deliberate: a multi-front leverage architecture — a coordinated system of diplomatic, economic, and security pressures, synchronized across three continents, designed to ensure that when President Donald Trump arrives in China next month, the terms of negotiation have already been shaped in Beijing’s […]
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Three ESA-built satellites on show in France
Thursday, 16 April 2026 11:00
Three Earth observation satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with European partners, and due to launch later this year, have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana. But first, journalists were invited to have one last look.