Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...
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NASA funds new tech for upcoming 'Super Hubble' to search for alien life: 'We intend to move with urgency'

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

NASA's Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

NASA’s newest telescope will play an outsize role in finding Earth 2.0

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...
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Ex-Google CEO plans space telescope bigger than Hubble at 'ridiculously low price'

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the most ambitious private astronomy initiatives in ...
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The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station

Former NASA astronaut Drew Feustel now leads the astronaut training program for the private space company Vast, which aims to ...

321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (Jan. 12)

The launch is set to occur no earlier than 12:42 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Just Days From SLS Rollout, Here’s the Latest Update for NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission

With launch potentially just three weeks away, the agency is working tirelessly to get the SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ...

FCC approves SpaceX plan to launch 7,500 more Gen2 Starlink satellites

The approval is a major win for SpaceX, even though it falls short of the company's original request to deploy nearly 30,000 satellites. The green light ...