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Space: Europe urged to find its path, from crewed spaceflight to communications

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Thursday for Europeans...

Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan’s Chain-Smoking ‘Space Antihero,’ Dies at 84

A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 millio...

NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy

Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy, NASA-led work i...

MaiaSpace Wins First Long-Term Asia Customer Deal

Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS) has tapped MaiaSpace, the up-and-coming French launch provider, to launch a...

York Space to Build Tomorrow.io’s Next-Gen DeepSky Constellation 

Tomorrow.io has selected York Space Systems to build the initial phase of its next-generation DeepSky weather monitoring...

TrustPoint CEO Previews Constellation Build-Out With EnduroSat Deal 

TrustPoint is moving forward to build out its GPS-independent PNT constellation plans, tapping EnduroSat US to build 40 ...

Top Air and Space Force leaders will gather amid unresolved Iran war, budget uncertainty

The Joint Chiefs chairman, Space Force’s new leader, and the NASA administrator are all scheduled to speak at next week’...

Eutelsat Taps Airbus and Aerospacelab for OneWeb and IRIS² Satellites

Eutelsat announced major orders of satellites to support service continuity for the OneWeb constellation, and Europe’s I...

Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.

On this day in space! Sept. 10, 2011: NASA launches GRAIL probes to the moon to map lumpy lunar gravity

On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! Here's why the moon gravity mapping missio...

LINK spacecraft gets close to NASA's Swift Observatory, but not close enough to save it

Operations aboard the Katalyst Space LINK satellite continue, despite the spacecraft's inability to complete its mission...

NASA, NFL Team Up to Showcase Space, Aeronautics Innovation

Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s st...

3D printing to colonise Mars after the Moon: the biomaterials tested by scientists

As the Artemis programme readies a Moon landing with an Italian habitat module, research tests 3D-printed homes on Mars ...

International Space Summit: Europe plays catch-up with US and China

The space sector is booming. The global industry expected to reach a value of €2 trillion mark by 2040. But behind this ...

BRICS and the new scramble for space

Behind the rhetoric of Global South solidarity lies a familiar game of patron-client diplomacy.

Watch: FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch on Vega-C

The European Space Agency’s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together abo...

Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, delivers live lesson from space

Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will deliver a live lesson from space to students and teachers at her alma mat...

Stoke Space raises $1 billion for fully reusable rockets, targets 'early 2027' for 1st-ever launch

Stoke Space announced a $1 billion round of funding to support development of its fully reusable Nova rockets, including...

1,000 Museum Visitors Dive Into NASA Sea Level Science on World Ocean Day

More than 1,000 visitors explored NASA sea level science firsthand during World Ocean Day at the University of Georgia A...

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past

For the first time, scientists used the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of th...

The nuclear pledge that costs nothing – but would mean everything in law

Nuclear states have every reason to make a negative security assurance legally binding, yet none will act.

SpaceX rocket taxi returns after Roman Telescope launch | Space photo of the day for Sept. 8, 2026

The Roman Space Telescope launched beyond Earth on Aug. 30. And one of the most amazing parts of the liftoff was the Fal...

A small Thai satellite tests China’s next big space export

A Chinese cubesat launch for Thailand offers a case study in the contest over Southeast Asia’s potential US$100 billion ...

Passengers of arrested ship Professor Molchanov return to Russia from Spitsbergen

They are now en route to Murmansk

Stoke Space Raises $1B Initial Series E Round

Stoke Space Technologies announced today that it has closed an initial $1B tranche of a Series E round, bringing the com...

Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?

Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar am...

Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3

Image: Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau on Saturday, 5 September.

Hong Kong’s first astronaut to give live space lecture to students on Wednesday

First Hong Kong astronaut Lai Ka-ying will deliver a live lecture from space to students and teachers at her alma mater ...

In a league of her own: A Japanese F-15 pilot guarding the northern skies

Capt. Momoka Fujii, call sign "Jasmine," is one of a tiny minority of female pilots flying front-line combat jets in the...

Korean film financing in 'structural crisis,' 'Burning' director tells president

President Lee Jae Myung sat down with Korean directors, actors and industry executives in southern France Monday ahead o...

APOD: 2026 September 8 – Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 8 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About D...

Launch Preview: Soyuz, CZ-8A, and Falcon 9 to launch from sites around the world

Five orbital launches are expected this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to launch from… The post Launch Preview: Soyuz,...

German startup carries out Europe's first commercial space launch

German startup Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket into orbit from Norway on Saturday night, markin...

BREAKING NEWS: Japan scrambles jets after China spy aircraft fly over East China Sea

BREAKING NEWS: Japan scrambles jets after China spy aircraft fly over East China Sea Read full story here

China’s WZ-X drone hints at an unmanned stealth bomber

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned...

Europe's space future in focus at the International Space Summit

The International Space Summit, taking place in Paris, France, on 9 and 10 September, will bring together world leaders,...

APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 7 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education Abo...

A Bright Spot at Mount Michael

With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlant...

Vietnam top leader departs for visits to Russia, France, attendance at Int'l Space Summit

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam, his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegatio...

Data centers in space: Four big obstacles and Elon Musk's ambitious timeline