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The Federal Communications Commission has approved a controversial test satellite designed to reflect sunlight to Earth after dark, granting a license to the California-based startup Reflect Orbital.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon is scheduled to launch on his first mission to the International Space Station on July 14, beginning an eight-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated that the space agency possesses imagery of unidentified objects that scientists have been unable to explain, while emphasizing that such unexplained observations do not consti...
China successfully completed the first controlled recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster on Friday, July 10, 2026, marking a historic milestone in its pursuit of reusable spaceflight technology.
Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have developed a lightweight robot capable of both flying and swimming, inspired by the biomechanics of divi...
A scientist has proposed a novel method to detect nuclear weapons hidden aboard satellites, offering a potential technical solution to a long-standing gap in international space security.
Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who broke gender barriers in flight for seven decades and became the oldest woman to travel to space, died on July 8 at her home in Grapevine, Texas. She was 87.
A new dog tracker designed to maintain a connection even in the most remote wilderness areas launched this week, promising to close a significant gap in the pet technology market.
A Japanese lunar exploration company has secured a major contract with SpaceX to deliver cargo to the Moon using the forthcoming Starship rocket, positioning itself as a key logistics provider for a burgeoning lunar econ...
A new era of commercial space power began this week with the successful launch of the world's first satellite equipped with a commercial nuclear battery.
Shares of SpaceX fell sharply on Wednesday, hitting a record low of just over $145, a day after the company joined the Nasdaq-100 index.
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is raising $10 billion in its first-ever round of outside funding, a move that values the firm at approximately $130 billion.
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever observed, including two that are the oldest on record, shining when the universe was only about 670 million years old.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has been formally rebranded as SpaceXAI, completing a corporate consolidation that began with its acquisition by SpaceX earlier this year.
SpaceX officially joined the Nasdaq 100 index on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, a move that automatically exposes millions of investors to the company through funds that track the benchmark.
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who made history as the first person from his country to travel to the moon, is stepping back from his full-time role with the Canadian Space Agency.
A Japanese space probe has successfully performed an exceptionally close flyby of a near-Earth asteroid, testing technology that could one day be used to protect Earth from a potential impact.
SpaceX intentionally deorbited 260 Starlink satellites between December 2025 and May 2026, according to a semi-annual report filed with the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month.
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has successfully arrived at a small, near-Earth asteroid to begin a landmark mission to collect and return samples to Earth.
Australian authorities have concluded that a series of mysterious metallic objects that washed ashore in northern Queensland are debris from a foreign rocket.
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