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After years of talking about the issue and a few fits and starts, the Space Force is refining its plans to bolster its legacy GPS architecture amid fears that its satellites and ground systems are increasingly vulnerable to threats like jamming, spoofing, and even kinetic attack.

The post What the Space Force Is Eyeing for Its Future GPS Enterprise appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will serve as pilot on Artemis III, marking a milestone for Europe’s participation in the program which will bring once again a human on the Moon. NASA has announced the four-member crew assigned to the Artemis III mission, selecting Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano as the mission’s pilot. The selection makes Parmitano […]

For the next leader of its component in Korea, the Space Force is turning to a colonel who has decades of experience in the Army, historically the leading service for all things U.S. military on the peninsula.

The post Soldier Turned Guardian to Lead Space Force Component in Korea appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Chengdu Qiongjie Yingchuang Culture and Entertainment is a Chinese immersive imaging company. It recently captured a rocket launch on the Gobi Desert using Blackmagic Design's extremely impressive Ursa Cine Immersive camera, capable of capturing greater than 8K resolution video across two lenses, one for each eye in an Apple Vision Pro headset.

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Portions of the rock date back billions of years to when the moon was molten rock.

The post Rare lunar meteorite was smacked three times before finally hitting Earth appeared first on Popular Science.

The new Scout-S radar will remain operational after Valiant Shield ends July 1, and already is contributing data to LeoLab’s space monitoring network, the company said.

The pharmaceutical cabinet of the future might look a lot like a garden.

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

It could explain why the early universe is littered with dead realms.

The post Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies appeared first on Futurism.

The new venture, Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions, includes four German space startups as “initial” partners.

Stunning views of the night sky abound in photographs worldwide submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.

When the Artemis lunar program was first conceived, the third mission would have seen astronauts step foot on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. But …read more

New mathematical research suggests dark energy may not be needed to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, challenging the foundations of the standard cosmological model. Mathematicians are questioning whether dark energy is actually responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion. In a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, researchers at the [...]

Scientists believe an unusual LIGO detection may be evidence of a primordial black hole, potentially linking these long-theorized objects to the mystery of dark matter. Scientists at the University of Miami believe they may be closing in on evidence for one of the most elusive objects in the universe: primordial black holes. While definitive proof [...]

If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating the United States to orbit. You might even remember ham …read more

The Space Force announced contract awards to Intelsat General and Viasat to begin building a constellation of satellites in geosynchronous orbit for protected, secure communications.

The post Space Force Picks Intelsat, Viasat for Protected SATCOM Program appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.

The new undergarment is built to keep astronauts cool, breathing and moving.

The two awards are collectively worth $437.7 million, according to the Space Systems Command press release.

Against a blue backdrop, an orange triable connects the foot of an astronaut to a black and white image of a house.

It's an extremely ambitious plan.

The post NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points appeared first on Futurism.

NOIRLab and the National Science Foundation's Gemini North telescope, located on Maunakea in Hawai'i, captured a mesmerizing photo of NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula. It looks a lot different than the photo the James Webb Space Telescope captured last year, and frankly, unlike nearly any other space photo.

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Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a more crowded picture of the early outer solar system than previously thought.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will serve as the mission’s pilot.

The post Astronaut who nearly drowned in space selected for Artemis III crew appeared first on Popular Science.

“The NRO is at the forefront of integrating AI into space-based ISR,” a spysat agency spokesperson told Breaking Defense.

The crew was unveiled two months after Nasa sent astronauts on a record-setting lunar flyby.

NASA's Artemis III crew has been revealed. The astronauts will launch into low Earth orbit next year to test docking with commercial lunar landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered its personnel aboard the International Space Station to button …read more

The duo will have a 'close encounter' in a phenomenon known as conjunction

A new study finds that Uranus' moons almost certainly didn't survive the solar system's violent early chaos intact.