Lunar missions are running into a navigation wall. Landers heading for the south pole this decade cannot rely on GPS, the Moon has no positioning constellation of its own yet, and the commercial cadence of flights is accelerating faster than the infrastructure meant to guide them.
Scientists in Germany have reported the first direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution linked to the reentry of a specific piece of…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have achieved remarkable results in observing ultra-faint galaxies from the early universe, detecting light that has traveled for roughly 13 billion years.
On May 14, 2026, NASA's Earth Observatory published a before-and-after pair of Landsat 9 images of the Kuskokwim River at Aniak, Alaska.
The two largest European satellite operators are abandoning planned geostationary satellites and pushing the capital toward low Earth orbit, a clear signal that the GEO build-out era is winding down even at its most committed players.
There is a particular kind of fatigue people describe about the rooms they live in, and they often cannot name it.
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