US confirms for the first time that it has deployed weapons in orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's public acknowledgment of on-orbit 'space control weapons' marks a turning point in the militarization of space.
Sep 15, 20262 views
Rocket Lab protests NASA's $700 million Mars orbiter award to Blue Origin
The GAO fight over the Mars Telecommunications Network tests NASA's bet on commercial relays at Mars — and unsettles Rocket Lab's investors.
Sep 15, 20261 views
Satellites Capture Early Fall Color in Canada's Arctic as Forecasters Weigh Autumn Vibrancy
NASA's Landsat 9 documents tundra color change in Nunavut, while forecasters say summer heat and rainfall will shape foliage across the continent.
Sep 14, 20261 views
Largest-ever survey of physicists finds no consensus on how the Universe works
A global poll of thousands of physicists reveals deep disagreement over cosmology and quantum gravity, even as new experiments sharpen the Hubble tension and challenge the simulation hypothesis.
Sep 13, 20261 views
Venus's dark ultraviolet clouds: New calculations narrow mystery absorber's light-absorption range
New calculations constrain how strongly the material behind Venus's dark ultraviolet patterns must absorb light, narrowing a century-old mystery.
Sep 13, 20261 views
NASA's Crew-12 Set to Brief Media on Return as SpaceX Launch Slowdown Delays Crew-13
Meir, Hathaway, Adenot and Fedyaev will speak from the ISS on Sept. 16, while a separate schedule slip pushes NASA's next rotation flight back.
Sep 11, 20262 views
NASA's Chandra Releases Gallery of 16 'Galactic Gems' Spanning the Universe
Working with Hubble and Webb, the X-ray observatory unveils multi-wavelength portraits of colliding galaxies, including the furious merger II Zw 096.
Sep 11, 20262 views
NASA Moves to Build U.S. Space Academy After Trump Executive Order
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman chaired the first commission meeting as the agency opened bidding among states to host the new federal academy.
Sep 11, 20262 views
Webb Detects Water and Dust Around a Dying Star Beside the Milky Way's Black Hole
Mid-infrared observations of IRS 3 reveal oxygen-rich silicate dust and a first-of-its-kind water signature in a stellar envelope just steps from Sagittarius A*.
Sep 10, 20261 views
Chandra Uncovers 84 Mysterious 'Hypersoft' X-Ray Sources Hiding in Archival Data
Astronomers discover a new class of cosmic objects emitting low-energy X-rays and intense ultraviolet light, possibly solving two long-standing puzzles.
Sep 9, 20261 views