Earth sits inside a vast magnetic bubble. For more than 70 years scientists have known it exists. Yet no one has seen the full structure respond in real time to the Sun's bar...
SpaceX has more than 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit. The company seeks permission for another million. Amazon, China and others race to build their own fleets. By some p...
Light pollution now blots out the Milky Way for one-third of humanity. Yet a handful of remote corners still deliver views that stop photographers in their tracks. This year’...
Two spacecraft drift through interstellar space. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have outlasted every expectation. Their signals take more than 22...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX stands on the verge of the largest initial public offering in history. The rocket maker, satellite operator and newly merged artificial intelligence powerh...
SpaceX stands on the verge of the largest initial public offering in history. The rocket maker and satellite operator has accelerated plans for a June 12 listing on Nasdaq un...
Scientists once pictured landings on Europa or Enceladus as straightforward. Touch down on solid ice. Sample the surface. Probe for signs of life below. But fresh experiments...
Amazon has placed 304 satellites in orbit. That number arrived through 11 launches over the past year. Now the company plans to double its tempo. Chris Weber, vice president...
Blue Origin has operated for a quarter century on the singular backing of its founder. Jeff Bezos poured tens of billions into the venture without once turning to outside inv...
NASA has laid out its first concrete details for the revised Artemis III mission. The flight will send four astronauts aboard Orion into low-Earth orbit. There, they will att...
Google has held discussions with SpaceX about launching test hardware for data centers that would orbit the Earth. The talks surfaced this week. They signal how two of techno...
Astronomers have spotted signs of 27 possible planets circling pairs of stars. These candidate worlds would experience two suns rising and setting in their skie...
Rocket Lab just moved to own more of what it flies. On May 7, 2026, the company signed a definitive agreement to acquire Motiv Space Systems, a Pasadena, California, speciali...
President Donald J. Trump directed the Pentagon to unseal government records on unidentified anomalous phenomena. The move delivered on long-standing promises of openness. On...
Elon Musk wants data centers in space. The idea sounds simple enough on paper. Put racks of processors on satellites. Power them with endless sunlight. Skip the water-guzzlin...