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Three companies building the tech to grow crops on the moon

Rockets, rovers and landers have dominated the attention of the commercial space industry as the United States focuses on sending humans back to the moon, but a handful of companies […]

Rocket Lab launches 8th iQPS satellite

Rocket Lab launched a Japanese radar-imaging satellite Aug. 6, more than a month after the previous launch attempt was aborted.

Chinese launch startup Orienspace targets IPO, secures funding for reusable Gravity-2 rocket

HELSINKI — Commercial launch company Orienspace has kicked off preparations for an IPO coaching process while closing a funding round for accelerating its reusable Gravity-2 rocket. The Shandong-based company, formally […]

ExoMars stretches out its legs

The footage shows the simultaneous deployment of two landing legs from the ExoMars landing platform, in two sequential pairs.

Webb opens a Treasure Chest filled with stars

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina Nebula, which lies just 7500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel).

APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability

How the Tide Turns at the Mouth of the Elbe

The ocean’s ebbs and flows reveal dynamic tidal flats and a well-traveled shipping route along the coast of Germany.

NASA and Roscosmos continue seat barter agreement

NASA and Roscosmos have agreed to continue exchanging seats between Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft, but that agreement does not yet extend to Starliner.

New Glenn explosion linked to rocket engine valve

Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a valve in the rocket’s BE-4 engine.

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

CNES Sets 2028 Target for Hot-Fire Test of New High-Thrust Rocket Engine

The head of the French space agency CNES told lawmakers in April that a subscale prototype of a future reusable full-flow staged-combustion rocket engine is expected to be tested for the first time in 2028. CNES President François Jacq disclosed the target in written answers submitted to the French National Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee ahead […]