On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
Scientists have observed a supermassive black hole that appears to have reactivated after a nearly 100 million-year hiatus, unleashing powerful jets of plasma once again and reshaping its surrounding cosmic environment. The
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India is planning a major expansion of its space-based surveillance capabilities, including the launch of more than 50 spy satellites and the addition of night-time imaging, according to people familiar with the
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached a major milestone, with new photos released Dec. 4 showing the observatory standing upright and fully assembled inside a clean room at the agency’s
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NASA has announced plans to bring the Crew‑11 team aboard the International Space Station (ISS) home several days earlier than originally scheduled due to a medical concern involving an unidentified astronaut. Officials
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Previously undisclosed Ministry of Defence documents show that Britain’s military actively investigated the possibility that UFOs, or “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), could represent real and highly advanced technology during the 1990s. According
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China’s rocket startup LandSpace, long inspired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is stepping into the spotlight after conducting the country’s first reusable rocket test earlier this month, Reuters reports. Although the maiden flight
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Russia has announced ambitious plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036 to support its lunar space program and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as global powers intensify
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Morgan Stanley is emerging as a leading contender for a top underwriting role in SpaceX’s long-anticipated initial public offering, leveraging its long-standing relationship with chief executive Elon Musk, according to people familiar
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High above Earth, some 22,000 miles into space, an unacknowledged encounter in 2022 revealed how rapidly outer space is being transformed into a new arena of military competition. An American patrol satellite
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After months of political turbulence and scrutiny in Washington, tech billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman has been confirmed as the next administrator of NASA, placing a leading advocate of commercial spaceflight
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