Space

So far, America has remained ahead in the new space race. But its biggest rival is making continual steps to catch up. China announced another step in that direction with the...

Science & Exploration 20/04/2026 1061 views 11 likesThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation...

SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Monday morning (April 20), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the GPS III SV10 satellite is scheduled to lift off...

A new quality assessment report from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program approves the use of data from Satellogic’s NewSat constellation, which includes the Mark IV and Mark V sensor generations, for scientific use.Issued March 9, 2026, the...

At least 90 per cent of the electricity generation being built today is renewable. But solar and wind farms...

(This is Part 2 of a series on Cherenkov radiation — the "light boom." Read Part 1 first.) Before we get to Brad Bradington sprinting down the red carpet, we need to...

Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company’s Cygnus...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to build the largest 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed in order to investigate dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. The...

Applications 15/04/2026 725 views 30 likesShrinking ice is arguably one of the most visible indicators of climate change – particularly in the Arctic. However, a European Space Agency-funded study used information from satellites to show that Antarctica is now experiencing...

In the past month, weather models have begun to show that a very strong El Niño climate phase could...