White House moves to eliminate NASA labor unions
Friday, 29 August 2025 15:06
The White House has moved to eliminate employee unions at NASA, among other agencies, on national security grounds.
Webb observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Friday, 29 August 2025 12:58
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Webb observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Week in images: 25-29 August 2025
Friday, 29 August 2025 12:10
Week in images: 25-29 August 2025
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An economic strategy for American space supremacy
Friday, 29 August 2025 12:00
President Trump’s recent executive order promoting commercial space competition highlights America’s unique advantage in the final frontier: our dynamic commercial space sector.
Rocket Lab inaugurates Neutron launch pad
Friday, 29 August 2025 10:59
Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug.
SpaceX sets record with 30th Falcon 9 spaceflight
Friday, 29 August 2025 09:10
SpaceX set a record with its 30th flight featuring Falcon 9 booster, B1067 on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center.
The Starlink mission 10-11 placed another 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit; more than 1,800 of these satellites have been launched across 74 missions in 2025.
The booster landed its 30th landing coming down at sea on the SpaceX drone ship "a Shortfall o JWST observes planetary building blocks in Butterfly Nebula
Friday, 29 August 2025 09:10
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula.
The telescope saw the creation of tiny planetary building blocks around a dead star, as it saw cosmic dust particles that create planets around young stars forming for the first time.
"For years, scientists have Autonomous robot lab accelerates search for advanced quantum dots
Friday, 29 August 2025 09:10
Researchers at North Carolina State University have introduced Rainbow, a fully automated multi-robot laboratory that discovers high-performance quantum dots at unprecedented speed. The system merges robotics with artificial intelligence to perform up to 1,000 experiments per day, dramatically reducing the time needed for new materials discovery.
"Rainbow brings together multiple robots wo Nullspace secures 2.5M seed funding to advance RF and quantum simulation software
Friday, 29 August 2025 09:10
Nullspace, a deep tech company creating next-generation electromagnetic simulation software, has raised $2.5 million in seed financing. The round was led by Fathom Fund with participation from Golden Seeds LLC and several strategic angel investors. The capital will support expansion of the engineering team, faster product development, and commercial scaling across aerospace, defense, quantum com Dusty wisps round a dusty disc
Friday, 29 August 2025 07:00
For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fantastic new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disc located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within the Taurus star-forming region. With Webb, researchers can study the properties and growth of dust grains within protoplanetary discs like this one, shedding light on the earliest stages of planet formation.
Viridian wins $1.25 million AFWERX award for VLEO propulsion technology
Thursday, 28 August 2025 23:45
SAN FRANCISCO – Viridian Space Corp. won a $1.25 million award from the U.S. Air Force for very low Earth orbit (VLEO) electric-propulsion technology.
Nuview claims $5 million in NSIC funds for lidar instrument
Thursday, 28 August 2025 22:06
SAN FRANCISCO – Nuview, a Florida startup building a constellation of lidar satellites, announced a $5 million award Aug.
China’s Guangdong province lays out ambitious commercial space objectives
Thursday, 28 August 2025 20:29
How microgravity could transform pharmaceuticals
Thursday, 28 August 2025 15:34
In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Will Bruey, CEO and co-founder of Varda Space Industries — a company developing in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing.