In 2006, the International Astronomical Union held a meeting in Prague and voted to demote Pluto. Roughly 424 members were in the room when the vote happened. The world’s planetary scientists, the people who actually study planets for a living, were not consulted in any binding way. Within hours, textbooks were rewritten, classroom posters were […]

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When people imagine where alien life might be, they tend to look outward. Exoplanets. Distant star systems. Some half-mythical planet around a star we’ll never visit. But here’s the strange truth most people never sit with. Scientists think life might exist right here, in our own solar system. Not little green men. Not Star Trek. […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 28, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, will premiere its National Space Day educational video on Friday, May […]

More than $8 billion is requested in 2027 to field space-based systems to track both ground and airborne targets

SAN FRANCISCO – Silicon Valley startup EraDrive is working with Northrop Grumman to enhance spacecraft autonomy with artificial intelligence.

Mark this one as the moment orbital defense became its own asset class. On April 28, Colorado-based True Anomaly announced a $650 million Series D fundraise that values the four-year-old startup at $2.2 billion. The round, first reported by Bloomberg, was co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, with new investors including Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, […]

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There’s a moment that hits me pretty often when I’m out riding my bike through Saigon at night. I’ll glance up at the sky between the buildings, catch a smear of stars, and feel my chest do something strange. A quiet kind of recognition. We’re floating. But most of the time, I forget. We all […]

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For seventy years, every spacecraft NASA sent to another world either landed in one place and stayed there, or rolled slowly across the surface on wheels. Then in April 2021, a four-pound helicopter called Ingenuity lifted ten feet off the floor of Mars’s Jezero Crater, hovered for thirty seconds, and changed the rules. Five years […]

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The top 80% of the core stage for NASA’s next Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 27, 2026, locking in hardware for an Artemis 3 mission that has now slipped from mid-2027 to late 2027 and shed its original ambition of putting boots on the moon. The 212-foot-tall stage rolled […]

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A manufacturing defect at a single European supplier has corroded structural modules destined for both NASA’s lunar Gateway and Axiom Space’s commercial station. The defect, traced to forging and surface treatment work performed by Thales Alenia Space at facilities in Italy, has now become one of the official justifications for NASA’s decision to suspend Gateway […]

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