US naval forces boarded an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, escalating tensions in the region and pushing fragile diplomatic efforts to the edge of collapse. The operation casts serious doubt on talks scheduled for Monday in Pakistan. President Donald Trump said the vessel had attempted to breach a US […]

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China has built or is building dozens of satellite factories with a combined theoretical output of over 7,000 spacecraft per year, yet launched just several hundred satellites in 2025 — a gap that defines both the ambition and the bottleneck of the country’s commercial space buildout. The figures come from a survey by Chinese space […]

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Parker Solar Probe has become the first human-made object to fly through the Sun's corona and survive. Its data is rewriting half a century of stellar physics, from the origin of the solar wind to the coronal heating problem.

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China is rapidly building a broad, diverse satellite manufacturing base capable of producing thousands of spacecraft annually, but faces bottlenecks in launch and uncertain demand.

Palestinian schoolchildren in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair held lessons on rocks beside a barbed wire fence this week, turning a settler-built barrier into the backdrop of what organizers called the ‘Umm al-Khair Freedom School.’ The protest followed reports that students were cut off from their classrooms by a fence Israeli authorities […]

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X-ray light from a cluster of more than a thousand galaxies has just forced astrophysicists to rewrite a central chapter in the story of how the universe builds its elements. Studies of data from Japan’s Hitomi telescope have found that the standard theoretical models describing what massive stars forge in their dying moments may be […]

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AST SpaceMobile promised investors 45 satellites in orbit by year-end. After losing BlueBird 7 to a New Glenn upper stage failure in April, the company said it still expects one to two launches per month through the rest of 2026. The rocket that just failed its customer will likely be grounded for months pending an […]

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Vulcan would be allowed to fly lower-energy missions as investigation of solid rocket motors anomaly continues

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Resilience has been sold to us as a spring mechanism. You compress under load, then snap back to your original shape. The metaphor is tidy, which is probably why it survives despite

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