Space

King Charles Opens UK Space and Defence Gateway at Europe’s Largest Space Cluster Date: 2026-07-14 Featured image: [King Charles III unveiling a plaque at the UK Space and Defence Gateway opening; credit: RAL Space / UK Space Agency] His Majesty King Charles III visited the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus on July 10 to officially […]

First True Sugar Molecule Found in Space Offers Fresh Clues to Life’s Origins Date: 2026-07-14 Featured image: [Artist’s impression of a molecular cloud rich in organic molecules near the center of the Milky Way; credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech] Astronomers have detected a true sugar molecule in interstellar space for the first time, identifying erythrulose in a dense […]

Space Is Too Big for Games: How X4, Elite Dangerous, and No Man’s Sky Wrestle with 93 Billion Light-Years Featured image: Screenshot from Elite Dangerous showing a spaceship against the Milky Way; credit: Frontier Developments “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Douglas Adams wrote those words decades […]

Fast Radio Bursts Track Cosmic Star Formation with Almost Zero Delay, New Study Finds Featured image: Artist’s impression of a magnetar emitting a fast radio burst; credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Where do fast radio bursts come from? The question has divided astrophysicists for nearly two decades. One camp argues that FRBs are produced by young magnetars formed […]

Space Mirrors Are Coming: Reflect Orbital’s First Orbital Mirror Gets FCC Green Light for a 50,000-Satellite Constellation Featured image: [Artist’s concept of a Reflect Orbital mirror satellite reflecting sunlight down to Earth; credit: Reflect Orbital] A California startup just got federal permission to launch the first of what could become tens of thousands of sunlight-reflecting […]

Most of the Moon’s Water Is Locked in Its Deep Interior, Not at the Poles Featured image: Geologist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt beside a split boulder at Apollo 17’s Station 6, Taurus-Littrow; credit: NASA For decades after Apollo, the Moon was described as bone dry, an anhydrous world where water existed, if at all, only in trace […]

Space Junk ‘Minefield’ Discovered in Crowded Geostationary Orbit: Tiny Debris Threatens the World’s Costliest Satellites Featured image: [Artist’s concept of debris in geostationary orbit; credit: ESA] A new survey of the geostationary belt has revealed dozens of previously undetected pieces of space junk lurking in one of the most valuable orbital real estate zones on […]

China Positions Methalox Long March 10C as Its Commercial Rocket Workhorse After First Booster Recovery Featured image: [Long March 10B launching from Wenchang on its debut flight, July 10, 2026; credit: CASC] Three days after recovering its first orbital-class rocket booster at sea, China has laid out its commercial launch strategy: the all-methalox Long March […]

New Pixel-Level Analysis Confirms Mysterious 20 GeV Gamma-Ray Halo Hints at Dark Matter Featured image: [Fermi-LAT all-sky gamma-ray map showing the Galactic plane and halo; credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration] A team of physicists at University College London has independently confirmed the detection of a gamma-ray signal at 20 GeV emanating from the halo of the […]

Subaru and Webb Join Forces to Measure How Light Escaped the Early Universe Featured image: [Artist’s impression of escaping Lyman-alpha radiation from early galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization; credit: NAOJ/NASA/ESA] A team of Japanese astronomers led by Shunta Shimizu of the University of Tokyo has achieved the first direct measurement of the Lyman-alpha (Lyα) […]