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
SpaceX is moving forward with an insider share sale that values Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company at about $800 billion, laying the groundwork for what could become the largest initial public
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SpaceX is accelerating plans for an initial public offering that could raise more than $30 billion and value the company at roughly $1.5 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter. Reporting
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Scientists have detected the largest-known spinning structure ever observed in the universe — a colossal filament of galaxies, gas and dark matter twisting through space like a cosmic carousel. The team, using
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A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft launched to the International Space Station on Thursday, carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut, a live stream of the event showed. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is requesting €22 billion ($25.5 billion) from its member states over the next three years, a 36% increase from its previous budget, as it moves to strengthen
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China faced a tense period for its crewed space programme as the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft was rapidly launched to serve as a lifeboat for the Tiangong space station, also known as the “Heavenly
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Amazon’s satellite internet program has a new name—and, increasingly, a new purpose. The initiative formerly known as Project Kuiper will now operate under the name “Leo,” a reference to the network’s placement
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Chinese astronauts stranded aboard the Tiangong space station are set to return to Earth on Friday, after a suspected piece of space debris damaged their spacecraft and delayed their original departure. The
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Just months after its highly anticipated debut, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is already reshaping astronomers’ understanding of galaxy evolution. Its massive camera, the largest digital imaging device ever built,
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China recently reached out to NASA regarding a potential conjunction between satellites, marking the first instance of direct coordination between the two agencies over space traffic management. The event was disclosed by
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