Space

SpaceX Eyes Direct-to-Consumer Starlink Mobile Service, Posing Challenge to US Telecom Giants Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 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 […]

Gravitational Wave ‘Direct Waves’ May Finally Reveal What Happens at a Black Hole’s Edge Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 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 […]

[Artist’s impression of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey telescope searching the night sky; credit: Caltech/Palomar Observatory] A team of researchers has published a rigorous critical evaluation of recent studies that claimed to have found evidence of artificial objects — so-called technosignatures — in photographic plates from the first-epoch Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS1-E). The new […]

!NASA astronaut Chris Williams tries on his spacesuit inside the Quest airlock, assisted by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, ahead of a spacewalk to repair the Canadarm2 wrist joint. Credit: NASA Houston, TX — Two NASA astronauts are preparing for a spacewalk on June 30 to replace a malfunctioning wrist joint on the International Space Station’s […]

Astronomers have uncovered compelling chemical evidence that a star some 1,300 light-years from Earth consumed one of its own planets, offering a fresh window into the violent late-stage dynamics of planetary systems. A team of 14 researchers from the United States and Chile detected an unmistakable lithium excess in the outer layers of TOI-5882, a […]

Boulder, Colorado — Weather Stream, a commercial weather satellite operator based in Boulder, Colorado, has released first light imagery from its GEMS2-Amethyst satellite, marking a significant step forward for private-sector atmospheric monitoring from space. The GEMS2-Amethyst spacecraft, a six-unit cubesat equipped with a dual-band passive microwave radiometer, returned its initial atmospheric observations after reaching operational […]

For decades, astrophysicists believed the universe’s first stars were cosmic giants: massive, uniformly enormous objects hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, born in calm, quiescent environments. New research published in The Astrophysical Journal turns that picture upside down. The first stars — known as Population III stars — were shaped by violent supersonic turbulence […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon molecules in Martian mudstone rocks within an ancient riverbed, delivering the most robust organic detection yet in Jezero Crater and adding significant weight to the possibility that microbial life once existed on the Red Planet. The findings, published June 24 in the journal Science Advances, confirm the […]

For years, small satellite manufacturers built their business plans around a single reliable premise: SpaceX could get their payloads to orbit. Through Falcon 9 Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions, the company offered frequent, low-cost access to space at roughly $7,000 per kilogram. But that pipeline is narrowing, and the industry is confronting a bottleneck that […]

A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is on course to crash into the moon on Aug. 5, 2026, but experts say the impact likely will not be visible from Earth with backyard telescopes. The discarded rocket stage — catalogued as object 2025-010D — is the upper section of the Falcon 9 that launched Firefly […]