A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug.

A spool of fibre optic cable has done what years of attrition could not: it has exposed a structural blind spot in one of the most heavily instrumented air defence networks on Earth. Hezbollah’s deployment of wire-guided first-person view drones across southern Lebanon has forced Israeli ground troops to defend themselves with assault rifles and […]

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To mark the first anniversary of the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, we present a selection of striking images captured over the past 12 months, revealing Earth’s forests, and much more, in new detail. In just one year, this pioneering mission has begun transforming our understanding of forest dynamics and advancing how scientists monitor the critical role forests play in regulating the global carbon cycle.

BAE to demonstrate inter-satellite Link-182 radios for Golden Dome missile defense architecture

Eleven years after launch and nearly a thousand days past its Pluto encounter, New Horizons is still transmitting from beyond 60 AU. A look at what the mission found, what its extended phase is still teaching us, and why the team behind it matters as much as the spacecraft.

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True Anomaly, the defense space startup founded in 2022, has closed a $650 million Series D funding round that values the company at $2.2 billion. The financing arrives the same week the company was named one of 12 contractors selected to develop space-based interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense program. The round was […]

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Most of the time when this question gets asked, the answer is some version of “probably not.” The search is too big, the instruments too small, the universe too empty. I have made that case myself, and I think it is correct as a description of where we have been. It is not, however, a […]

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The top 80% of the core stage for NASA’s next Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 27, 2026, locking in hardware for an Artemis 3 mission that has now slipped from mid-2027 to late 2027 and shed its original ambition of putting boots on the moon. The 212-foot-tall stage rolled […]

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