London, UK (SPX) Nov 10, 2025
Germany and the United Kingdom have raised alarms regarding the escalating danger posed by Russian and Chinese activity in space, with recent incidents putting focus on the growing threat to Western satellites. Both countries have publicly accused Russia of stalking, jamming, and interfering with their orbital systems, while experts have warned that China's rapid technological advances could wie

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 10, 2025
Facing a new era of satellite surveillance and jamming, European governments are moving rapidly to strengthen their defenses in orbit. The twin challenges posed by Russian and Chinese activities have forced the continent to confront longstanding vulnerabilities in both military and civilian space infrastructure. While much of the public discourse addresses threats, a parallel focus has emerged:

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has announced the award of a contract worth more than $30 million spanning several years, focused on integrating its third-generation high-cadence tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services into a strategic international defense customer's secure operational environment. The awarded project accelerates the customer's sovereign spa

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
SFL Missions Inc. has secured a contract from GHGSat, Montreal, to supply two additional commercial microsatellites for the GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring constellation. The satellites, designated GHGSat-C18 and GHGSat-C19, are in development at SFL Missions' Toronto facility, which is currently working on 37 satellites for clients in the commercial, government, and research sectors. GHG

Pasadena, CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
New work from a research team including Carnegie's Luke Bouma demonstrates that the Pleiades star cluster - also known as the Seven Sisters - is part of an enormous stellar complex spread over nearly 2,000 light-years. Their work uses one of the most historically significant stellar clusters to demonstrate a new approach for tracing stellar origins - which have posed long-standing challenges for

Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star - a burst powerful enough to strip away the atmosphere of any unlucky planet in its path. The burst was a coronal mass ejection (CME), eruptions we often see coming from the Sun. During a CME, massi

Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 12, 2025
An exoplanet with dense or even total cloud cover could help astronomers searching for signs of life beyond our planet. Cornell University researchers have created the first reflectance spectra - a color-coded key - of diverse, colorful microorganisms that live in the clouds floating above Earth's surface. Astronomers don't know if these bacteria exist elsewhere in the universe and in enou

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
A scientific team in China has confirmed the discovery of the Jinlin crater in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. This impact structure, which has been preserved in a thick granite weathering crust, provides new insight into the frequency and scale of meteoritic collisions during the Holocene epoch. The Jinlin crater measures 900 meters in diameter, making it the largest known impact crater for

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 12, 2025
Private space company Blue Origin canceled Wednesday's planned Mars-bound launch from Florida of its ESCAPADE craft for the second time due to increased solar flare activity. The second delay came as a result of the strongest solar flares of the year Tuesday. Blue Origin had planned its New Glenn rocket launch for 2:50 p.m. EST via its launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Stat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2025
Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi have discovered evidence that water once permeated beneath the surface of Mars, indicating the red planet may have remained suited for life longer than scientists previously believed. A team led by Dimitra Atri from NYUAD's Space Exploration Laboratory examined data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover in Gale Crater, focusing on sedimentary stru