Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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analysisDecember 8, 2025

Space-Based Solar Power: Beaming Clean Energy from Orbit

What if we could harvest solar energy where the Sun never sets, the sky is never cloudy, and the collector faces the full unfiltered power of sunlight 24 hours a day? What if we could then beam that e…

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analysisDecember 5, 2025

Ion Propulsion: The Slow but Mighty Engine of Deep Space

If you have ever watched a rocket launch -- that deafening roar, the pillar of flame, the raw brute force of chemical propulsion shoving thousands of tonnes off the launch pad -- then ion propulsion i…

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Saturn and its ring system photographed in stunning detail by the Cassini spacecraft

analysisDecember 3, 2025

Cassini-Huygens: 13 Years at Saturn and the Greatest Planetary Mission Ever Flown

On September 15, 2017, a spacecraft the size of a school bus plunged into the atmosphere of Saturn at 76,000 miles per hour and burned to ash. It had been in space for nearly twenty years. It had trav…

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newsDecember 3, 2025

Space Startup Funding in 2025: Where Venture Capital Is Flowing

Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice or a recommendation to invest in any company, fund, or security. Always conduct you…

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analysisDecember 1, 2025

Mir: The Space Station That Proved Humans Could Live in Space Long-Term

Before the International Space Station, before humans routinely lived and worked in orbit for six months at a stretch, there was Mir. The Russian word means both "peace" and "world," and for fifteen y…

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analysisDecember 1, 2025

Space Elevators: Science Fiction or Engineering Inevitability?

Picture this: a ribbon of material stretching from the equator all the way to geostationary orbit, 35,786 kilometers above Earth. You step into a climber car, press a button, and ride smoothly into sp…

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newsNovember 28, 2025

After the ISS: The Commercial Space Stations Coming by 2030

The International Space Station will not last forever. After more than 25 years of continuous habitation, the most complex structure ever built in space is approaching the end of its operational life,…

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guideNovember 27, 2025

10 Times Science Fiction Predicted Real Space Technology

Science fiction has a reputation for being escapist, for spinning fantasies about laser swords and warp drives that will never exist. But the genre's actual track record is something far more interest…

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analysisNovember 25, 2025

Nuclear Propulsion: The Key to Faster Space Travel

Chemical rockets are magnificent. They are loud, dramatic, and powerful enough to hurl payloads off the surface of the Earth against the relentless pull of gravity. But they have a fundamental limitat…

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guideNovember 24, 2025

Planet Watching in 2025: When and Where to See Every Planet

There is something deeply satisfying about stepping outside, looking up, and knowing that the bright "star" hanging above the rooftops is actually another world -- a place with storms, moons, rings, o…

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opinionNovember 24, 2025

The Militarization of Space: Should We Be Worried?

On December 20, 2019, the United States Space Force was officially established as the sixth branch of the U.S. military. It was the first new military branch since the Air Force was created in 1947, a…

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analysisNovember 21, 2025

Disaster Response from Orbit: How Satellites Save Lives

When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, 2023, the destruction was so vast and so sudden that rescue teams on the ground had no way to grasp the full sc…

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