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Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins are uncertain, the comet is thought to come from a part of the Milky Way ...
The cubesat measuring 22 x 10 x 33 cm was launched in August 2024 and the first image was delivered four days after launch.
A bankrupt company’s air-cooled propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered ...
L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...
NKT’s announcement stated, “This achievement, conducted with NASA/JPL’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstrator, marks a significant leap forward in high-data-rate communication across ...
ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT Photonics. This ...
In our weekly column, Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.
Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.
New research released by the UK Space Agency underscores the country’s growing reliance on satellite technologies, which supported industries accounting for about 18% of national GDP.
The Axiom Space's Ax-4 crew safely splashed down off the coast of San Diego aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule "Grace." ...
The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...