Space

Hayabusa2 Set for Super-Close Asteroid Flyby on July 5: ‘A New Beast in the Zoo of Asteroids’ Featured image: [Artist’s concept of Hayabusa2 approaching asteroid Torifune; credit: JAXA] Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, already one of the most accomplished asteroid missions in history, is about to add a new feat to its resume. On July 5, the […]

How to Tell a Comet From an Asteroid and a Meteor From a Meteorite Date: 2026-06-29 Featured image: [Composite illustration showing a comet, asteroid, and meteor against a star field; credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech] Next time you see a streak of light across the night sky, you are watching the end of a journey that began 4.6 […]

Astronomers Catch the Glowing Shockwave of a Galaxy on the Move Featured image: [LOFAR radio image overlay showing the bow-and-arrow morphology of RAD-BAARG, with the giant arc-shaped shock front on the western side and the distorted S-shaped jet on the eastern side; credit: Ananda Hota / RAD@home / LOFAR / RAS] Astronomers have discovered a […]

Europe’s Next Security Challenge Is in Orbit Date: 2026-06-28 Featured image: [Artist’s representation of objects in low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit, illustrating the congestion and complexity of the space environment; credit: ESA] Across the European Union, satellite navigation alone underpins more than 10 percent of GDP. In the United Kingdom, space-based activity accounts for […]

How to Protect Earth from a Deadly Asteroid Impact Date: 2026-06-28 Featured image: [Artist’s illustration of a kinetic impactor approaching an asteroid, with the DART spacecraft as reference; credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL] A meteoroid just 1.5 meters wide lit up the skies over Massachusetts in late May 2026, producing a fireball visible in broad daylight […]

Featured image: LOFAR radio image of RAD-BAARG, showing the bow-and-arrow structure spanning 1.8 million light-years; credit: LOFAR / RAD@home / Hota et al. A volunteer citizen scientist working through the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory has spotted a never-before-seen structure in deep space: a giant radio galaxy that looks like a bow and arrow, spanning approximately 1.8 […]

Featured image: Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite illustration; credit: SpaceX SpaceX has signaled its intention to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the United States, a move that would upend the country’s multibillion-dollar telecommunications market and potentially reshape how Americans connect to cellular networks. Company President and COO Gwynne Shotwell disclosed the plan to investors during […]

Featured image: Simulation of two black holes merging, showing gravitational wave emission near the event horizon; credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For the first time, astronomers have detected a new type of gravitational wave signal that carries direct imprints of a black hole’s event horizon, potentially opening a window onto the most extreme physics in the universe. The […]

Featured image: Illustration of the expanded Tiangong space station in cross configuration; credit: CMSA China has formally announced plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station, expanding from three to six modules and adding a co-orbiting Hubble-class telescope, positioning the facility to become the world’s largest permanent outpost in low-Earth orbit as the […]

China Plans to Double Tiangong Space Station to Six Modules as ISS Era Winds Down Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 Featured image: Illustration of the expanded Tiangong space station in cross configuration; credit: CMSA China has formally announced plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station, expanding from three to six modules and […]