Space

Webb and ALMA Catch Galaxy-Killing Wind in the Act, Solving a Cosmic Mystery Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have caught a distant galaxy in the act of being killed — a finding that may finally explain why so many massive galaxies in the early universe died […]

Elon Musk Wants 1 Million AI Satellites in Space, Says SpaceX Is Ready to Build Them SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has outlined the most detailed vision yet for his company’s orbital data center plans, proposing a constellation of up to 1 million AI-equipped satellites and a dedicated production facility to build them. In a half-hour […]

ESA Extends 13 Science Missions and Awards Sentinel-1 Next Generation Contract ESA’s Science Programme Committee delivered a double dose of news at its meeting in Tenerife this week: a sweeping extension of operating science missions and a major contract award for the next generation of Europe’s workhorse radar satellites. 13 missions extended All 13 ESA […]

What spectral resolution does a telescope need to find life? A new study has an answer for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Source: Space.com (Paul Sutter, June 10, 2026). Original paper on arXiv.

Callisto, the most distant of Jupiter’s four Galilean satellites, is a world of extremes: nearly the size of Mercury yet made mostly of water ice, heavily cratered yet suspected to harbor a subsurface ocean, and long dismissed as geologically dead yet offering some of the most spectacular terrain in the outer solar system. A new […]

ToupTek has detailed the evolution of its StellaVita smart astrophotography controller through the App 2.0 update, marking a transition from a promising but unfinished first-generation product to what the company positions as a mature, dependable field imaging system. The update, documented through a user story published on June 9, follows the journey of an early […]

Russian satellites can jam GPS at continental scale, tests confirm Date: June 9, 2026 For the first time, researchers have definitively traced widespread GPS interference across Europe, Greenland, and Canada to Russian military satellites orbiting more than 1,200 kilometers above Earth. The findings, published in a peer-reviewed paper on June 3 and confirmed by multiple […]

Are we ready to send humans to Mars? Date: June 9, 2026 Wernher von Braun, when asked what stood between humanity and a crewed mission to Mars, reportedly answered: “political will.” More than half a century later, that answer still holds — but Mark Shelhamer, former chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program, argues the […]

JWST reveals the missing link: how supermassive black holes are fed For decades, astronomers have understood that supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are somehow fed by surrounding gas. But the actual mechanism — how gas travels from thousands of light-years away down to within a few hundred light-years of the black hole […]

Could Meteor Storms Derail NASA’s First Moon Landing Since Apollo? Published: June 7, 2026, 14:59 UTC NASA’s Artemis 4 mission — the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo, currently slated for early 2028 — could face scheduling trouble from an unexpected source: a predicted Perseid meteor outburst on August 12, 2028. The risk is laid […]