Victor Glover became the first Black astronaut to orbit the Moon this week, a milestone that draws a direct line through more than two centuries of American exploration, back to an enslaved man named York who never received credit for helping chart the western frontier. Glover, serving as pilot aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission, flew […]

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Volunteering to go first is often misread as confidence. In reality, it's frequently a nervous system strategy for escaping anticipatory anxiety, which research consistently shows is more distressing than the feared event itself.

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Last year, history was made as a navigation receiver on the Moon determined its position in real time using signals from approximately 410 000 km away. The receiver, called the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), acquired signals from four navigation satellites orbiting Earth: two Galileo satellites and two GPS satellites.

The mission also tested Galileo’s Emergency Warning Satellite Service (EWSS) on the Moon, demonstrating the robustness and reach of the planned service.

Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, faces five counts of war crimes murder related to the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians. The charges mark the first time a recipient of the Victoria Cross — Australia’s highest military honour — has been criminally prosecuted for conduct in a war zone. But the significance of […]

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A Spanish satellite startup that once built spacecraft for under $30,000 is now chasing defense contracts in Tokyo, betting that a rapid transition from tiny experimental satellites to larger, more capable platforms can open doors to government customers hungry for sovereign space capabilities. FOSSA Systems has reportedly partnered with Japanese trading firm Kanematsu and opened […]

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ESA’s newest deep space antenna, DSA 4 (also called NNO-3), is now fully online – representing a powerful new addition that strengthens the Agency’s reach across the Solar System and boosts the capacity and resilience of its global Estrack network for communicating with spacecraft in deep space.

The White House proposed a fiscal year 2027 NASA budget of $18.8 billion, representing a reduction from what Congress approved for the agency just months earlier. The Science Mission Directorate would absorb significant cuts under the proposal. If enacted, it would represent one of the largest single-year reductions to NASA science funding in recent agency […]

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The night sky makes us feel tiny, and instead of panic, many people feel peace. Recent psychological research on awe explains why shrinking your sense of self can lower stress, reduce inflammation, and reconnect you with what actually matters.

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