Ethiopian volcanic plume
The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeast Ethiopia, believed to have been dormant for up to 12 000 years, erupted on 23 November 2025, sending a massive plume of ash and sulphur dioxide high into the ...
Star Wars redux: the false promise of...
Star Wars is back in vogue with President Trump's executive order to establish the "Golden Dome" missile defense shield. It will feature an ambitious space-based boost-phase interceptor program in ...
NASA to fly only cargo on next...
ALICANTE, Spain - NASA has revised its commercial crew contract with Boeing, reducing the number of CST-100 Starliner missions to four, the first of which will carry only cargo.In a Nov. 24 ...
Soyuz Rocket Rolls Out as Cygnus...
A Soyuz rocket rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today to begin counting down to a Thanksgiving Day liftoff of three new crew members to the International Space ...
Oman brings GEO orders level with...
TAMPA, Fla. - An order for Oman's first geostationary communications satellite has lifted the global tally for this year to six, matching all of 2024 with a month still to go but still well below the ...
Science fiction and innovation in space
In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Center's Discovery Series.The panel ...
NASA, Boeing Modify Commercial Crew...
In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its Starliner spacecraft. As part of its ...
City Lights and Atmospheric Glow
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this photo of southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 ...
Next MetOp Second Generation weather...
The MetOp Second Generation-B1 satellite has entered its third and most delicate round of pre-launch testing, marking another step towards strengthening Europe's weather forecasting ...
Florida Space Coast tops 100 launches...
WASHINGTON - The Florida Space Coast passed a major milestone last week. The Starlink mission flown Nov. 20 marked the 100th orbital launch of the year, the first time Cape Canaveral and Kennedy ...
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