NASA renews commitment to Europe’s life-hunting Mars rover despite Trump budget cuts
"These confirmations have been given to us in writing, so this is a very important step."
Could satellite-beaming planes and airships make SpaceX’s Starlink obsolete?
"When the Stratomast is flying, all these old satellites are going to be in museums."
Will Europe’s flagship space science missions survive NASA’s budget cuts?
NASA budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump will cause a significant funding shortfall to Europe's space science missions. But the European Space Agency hopes it can save them.
ESA ships Artemis 4 Orion service module to NASA after Trump tried to cancel it
The European Space Agency has completed the Orion service module for NASA's Artemis 4 mission to the moon, which was saved from cancellation earlier this year by the U.S. Congress
‘Shockingly large’ amount of sensitive satellite communications are unencrypted and vulnerable to interception, researchers find
A mind-boggling lack of encryption allowed researchers to eavesdrop on satellite links and intercept vast quantities of private communications, including those by government and military officials.
How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope’s blurry vision
An ultra-high-resolution instrument on board NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. AI helped fix the problem.
SpaceX Starlink internet isn’t fast enough for Ukraine’s combat robots
The amount of bandwidth provided by SpaceX's Starlink satellites is limiting Ukraine's ability to operate ground robots on the frontline of the nation's war against Russia.
Powerful NVIDIA chip launching to orbit next month to pave way for space-based data centers
An NVIDIA GPU is heading toward its record-setting orbital debut, a trip that will test how data centers could work in the final frontier.
Can we dim the sun to fight climate change? Not without risking weather patterns, scientists suggest
Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur in the atmosphere might slow down climate change. It might also change weather patterns.
This company’s plan to launch 4,000 massive space mirrors has scientists alarmed: ‘From an astronomical perspective, that’s pretty catastrophic’
Reflect Orbital has applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a giant mirror to space next year.