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The Milky Way glows over telescopes in the Atacama Desert | Space photo of the day for Oct. 9, 2026

Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama De...

As AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile shares fall, Wall Street assesses the growing SpaceX threat

SpaceX still has a ways to go before it can seriously challenge the three major wireless operators, but it’s making move...

Italy Explores Building an Artificial Gravity Research Platform in Orbit

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) is exploring the development of a dedicated orbital platform capable of generating artifi...

Week in images: 05-09 October 2026

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Exclusive: Kapta Space Raises $24M Series A to Build Moving Target Radar Payload

Seattle-based Kapta Space announced a $24M Series A to build next-gen radar payloads designed to track moving targets. T...

NASA Signs Space Nuclear Pact, Says Moon Base Is Ahead of Schedule

Isaacman gave updates at the White House's “Science: A New Golden Age Summit." The post NASA Signs Space Nuclear Pact, S...

Elon Musk’s Starlink row in India exposes Asia’s deeper battle over satellite power

Elon Musk’s accusation that powerful Indian business interests are blocking Starlink’s entry into India has sparked a po...

Chinese researchers make Arctic-to-Antarctic call using rival to Musk’s Starlink

Polar researchers have used a would-be Chinese rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink to make a satellite video call between the ...

Private Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft departs the International Space Station after 6-month stay (video)

Northrop Grumman's robotic Cygnus XL spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (Oct. 9) after a six-mont...

Vodacom Lesotho Launches Enterprise Satellite Connectivity Solution Powered by Starlink

Vodacom Lesotho has brought satellite broadband to the enterprise market in Lesotho, unveiling a fully managed connectiv...

Japan to launch research study on rapid-response space transport

The move comes as more countries, including China, Russia and the U.S. continue to bolster their military capabilities i...

Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?

"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."

Europe’s Earth Observation Providers Set Their Sights on Satcom

Open Cosmos recently laid out plans for a 192-satellite comms constellation, and ICEYE announced a partnership with Noki...

Nasa struggled to sample Bennu until Brian May revealed its hidden dangers

Earth from Space: Namibia’s biggest salt pan

Image: This image from Copernicus Sentinel-2, acquired on 5 April 2026, shows the Etosha National Park in northern Namib...

South Africa’s MeerKAT and NASA’s Webb Identify Host Galaxy of Most Distant Fast Radio Burst

Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified the host ...

Why Elon Musk is taking on India's richest man over Starlink

Musk has taken pot-shots at Reliance owner Mukesh Ambani as Starlink struggles to launch in India.

Europe’s Space Defenses Fall Just Shy of Weaponization

Europe doesn’t have any weapons in space—but that doesn’t mean the region is comfortable flying around in orbit defensel...

'Real boss of India?': Elon Musk takes aim at Indian billionaire Ambani as Starlink launch stalls

Musk claimed Starlink was not being allowed to launch in India despite spending five years complying with every single l...

SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile plans are pressuring AT&T and Verizon shares

SpaceX plans to purchase Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio in a move to bolster its mobile ambitions. The ne...

Crew-12 Back on Earth as ISS Keeps Busy

NASA’s Crew-12 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California this morning, bringing the 237-day...

Musk accuses Indian 'oligarchs' of blocking Starlink access

The comments, which New Delhi called “baseless,” escalated a yearslong feud over market access for the satellite operato...

US telcos stocks tumble after SpaceX announces spectrum acquisition

Elon Musk takes big step towards launching a Starlink mobile service for US consumers

A dead Soviet satellite just broke apart in orbit (again). Experts say it's part of 'a worrying trend'

An old Soviet satellite has fragmented into multiple pieces in low Earth orbit, the latest in a string of recent breakup...

Four astronauts return to earth after an eight-month space mission

The crew completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink

"These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."

SpaceX deal to acquire spectrum license hammers shares of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile

SpaceX agreed to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it to pushes its Starlink service deeper into the U.S. tele...

SpaceX Moves to Acquire Nationwide Low-Band Spectrum for Starlink Mobile

SpaceX announced a deal Thursday afternoon to acquire nationwide, low-band spectrum from Grain Management to improve ser...

Estonian Startup Golbriak Space Raises 4M Euro in Seed Funding

Golbriak Space, an Estonian space laser communications company, has raised 4 million euro ($4.5 million) in seed funding...

NASA Briefing to Highlight Contributions to Martian Moons Mission

Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s cont...

NASA's hunting for a secret underground cave on the moon

Will future astronauts take shelter in moon caves?

On-Orbit Security Startup Fortastra Raises $30M in Series A

Startup Fortastra raised a $30 million Series A round as the company aims to establish “persistent, multi-orbit security...

Amazon Hits 1,000 Sat Milestone; Blue Origin Bolsters Sat Manufacturing

Amazon and Blue Origin — two companies owned by Jeff Bezos with separate satellite constellation plans — reached new man...

NASA Announces Bold Science Initiatives for America’s Golden Age Summit

NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the innov...

American Airlines to Adopt Starlink for Full Mainline Fleet 

American Airlines is expanding its planned rollout with SpaceX’s Starlink for in-flight connectivity to now include its ...

NASA’s SSPICY Mission to Demonstrate In-Space Inspection Technologies

A new NASA-supported spacecraft will get up close to satellites that are no longer in service, demonstrating technologie...

Crew-12 Returns to Earth

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ca...

Paratus Namibia Launches Eutelsat OneWeb LEO Satellite Service

Paratus Namibia has extended its satellite connectivity offering in the country with the launch of Eutelsat’s OneWeb low...

NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space tele...

Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’...