Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. HELSINKI — China is developing a dependence on space-based space situational awareness as its space activities expand, according to a new report. China’s on-orbit presence has grown dramatically in recent years, with a boom in numbers of […]
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — A critical challenge facing the U.S. defense industrial base came into sharp focus this weekend at the Reagain National Defense Forum: the ability to rapidly manufacture and deploy advanced military technologies, particularly in space. A […]
Ancient cosmic collisions may have birthed the universe’s most monstrous galaxies (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions between galaxies in the early universe may have forged some of the most monstrous star systems. The formation of ancient gigantic galaxies that bulge like footballs […]
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites from Florida early Sunday morning (Dec. 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 12:12 a.m. […]
Astronomers wonder if galaxies are falling into this giant black hole (Image Credit: Mashable) The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar. Quasars, a shortening of the term “quasi-stellar objects,” are blindingly bright galaxy cores in the […]
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites from Florida early Sunday morning (Dec. 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 12:12 a.m. EST […]
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The vice chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, Gen. Michael Guetlein, issued a stark warning this weekend about China’s accelerating advances in space technology and its growing capacity to challenge the United […]
The yearning for Uranus: A far-out world with a tale to tell (Image Credit: Space.com) For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and its moons should be NASA’s highest-priority new flagship mission for startup in the decade 2023-2032. The proposed mission, known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), would […]
NASA’s stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go (Image Credit: Phys.org) NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the […]
How big can ‘ultramassive’ black holes get? Scientists may have the answer (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes exceed even these monstrous masses […]
