Briefing: NASA wants to put a $20 billion base on the Moon
Strategic angle: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlines ambitious plans for a lunar base.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
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Briefing: NASA halts work on Gateway to develop a lunar base
Strategic angle: NASA is shifting its focus from the lunar Gateway project to the development of a lunar base.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: Space Force officer shares intelligence on threats to space systems
Strategic angle: Electronic warfare poses a significant risk to U.S. space operations, warns Space Force leadership.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: NASA to 'pause' orbital lunar space station project
Strategic angle: NASA's chief announced a shift in focus from the Gateway lunar space station to building a lunar base.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets
Strategic angle: NASA is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: Tropical Cyclone Narelle Crosses Australia
Strategic angle: The powerful storm lashed the northern edge of the continent with damaging winds and drenching rain as it made landfall multiple times.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: Private Company Wants To Bag House-Sized Asteroid For Resources
Strategic angle: Science fiction might be becoming science reality: Putting a big net up in space, then using it to catch asteroids, and mine them for valuable materials.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
See NASA’s GUARDIAN Catch a Tsunami
A new data visualization illustrates how an experimental NASA technology can provide extra lead time to communities in the path of a tsunami.
Editorial Staff Mar 24
Briefing: Space Force adds cyber units to guard rocket launches
Strategic angle: ‘Cyber defense’ squadrons at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg reflect growing concern over malicious hacks.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: NASA Data Hackathon Inspires Community Action
Strategic angle: On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s Marston Science Library for the Environmental Monitoring through Education, Research, and Geospatial Engagement (EMERGE) event.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
A quarter-century after its first observations, Hubble provides a detailed look at the Crab Nebula's evolution.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Science Through Shadows: How Astronomical Alignments Reveal the Universe
Strategic angle: When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and sometimes across Earth.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: NASA Says Screw All This, Is Just Going To Blow Fuel Up Now
Strategic angle: NASA is saying this all with a straight face and pretending this is serious work regarding safety, not merely something it wanted to do because why wouldn't it.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Russia resumes use of space launch site damaged in accident
Part of the launch site in Kazakhstan collapsed during the lift-off of Soyuz MS-28 in November last year, temporarily preventing Russia from being able to send cosmonauts into space.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: A Fault Line in Full Bloom
Strategic angle: Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Swissto12 to build small optical relay GEO satellite for Space Compass
Strategic angle: Swissto12 signs contract to develop the first optical relay spacecraft using its HummingSat platform.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Transformational Tools and Technologies Resources
Strategic angle: Explore Vision Studies, Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) Studies, and White Papers from NASA.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: How birds send heat into space measured for the first time—a hidden reflectance of feathers
Strategic angle: Understanding avian temperature regulation is crucial for conservation amidst climate change.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: Webb Telescope spots “impossible” atmosphere on ancient super Earth
Strategic angle: Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas.
Editorial Staff Mar 22
Briefing: From satellites to space data centers: Why low earth orbit is attracting billions in investment
Strategic angle: Big Tech companies including Nvidia and Elon Musk's SpaceX are making large bets on a new layer of critical infrastructure that's emerging above our heads.
Editorial Staff Mar 22