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Human eyes don’t register the infrared portion of the light spectrum because infrared photons don't carry enough...
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Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA's Swift gamma-ray telescope...
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An ongoing military exercise happening hundreds of miles above Earth has—for the first time in an unclassified...
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Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species...
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The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of...
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High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an...
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Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research,...
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever...
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Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches...
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The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so,...
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A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the...
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Imagine this: The US military begins tracking a mysterious spacecraft maneuvering near one of the Space Force's...
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More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been...
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For most of human history, our view of "close to the Sun" was defined by the orbit...
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Europe is in the midst of its second big heat wave of the year, and it’s breaking...
Note: This article was originally published by the Space Review, April 2026. It is republished here on Astrobitica with permission...
Publishing my Master’s Thesis here until it is formally published at arXiv.
High above the Earth’s atmosphere, a constellation of satellites orbit with purpose, their mission is synchronized with...
For as long as humans have waged war, controlling the high ground has meant controlling the fight....