The US $185B Golden Dome, China's anti-satellite arsenal, and Russia's nuclear space weapons. The 2026 space arms race compared across 8 major military powers.
The space economy is already worth over $630 billion annually — and most of it isn't rockets. Here's a plain-language guide to who's making money in space and what comes next.
Artemis II is humanity's first crewed Moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. Meet the four astronauts, understand the 10-day lunar flyby, and why this mission matters more than you think.
NASA's multi-billion Moon base program: a permanent south-pole outpost by the early 2030s, Starship HLS and Blue Moon landings, ISRU water mining, the Lunar Gateway descope, and the post-Artemis II architecture shift.
BepiColombo reaches Mercury orbit in late 2026 after 7 years and 6 flybys. Why Mercury is so hard to reach, what MESSENGER found, and what ESA-JAXA aim to
New Horizons' July 2015 Pluto flyby at 49,600 km/h revealed nitrogen glaciers and the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio — then pushed on to Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a Grand Tour that comes once every 176 years. How they mapped Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — and carried the
Inside Blue Origin: New Glenn's first booster reuse on NG-3, BE-4 powering ULA Vulcan, Blue Moon Mk1 nearing lunar debut, and the Bezos-funded long game in space.
How Switzerland became essential to European space -- from Apollo 11 instruments to ClearSpace debris removal, RUAG fairings, and EPFL spin-offs shaping
Inside Airbus Defence and Space: Europe's 35,000-employee space prime behind Galileo, Copernicus, OneWeb, and the Orion service module that flew NASA astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II.
Space-based solar power could deliver clean, uninterrupted energy to Earth. Here's why the idea deserves serious investment — and the real obstacles to getting there.
