Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images By David Dimolfetta, Alexandra Kelley and Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 8 April 2026 Claude Mythos Preview has found vulnerabilities in "every major operating system and web browser," company officials say. Anthropic’s decision to keep close hold on a powerful frontier AI model, paired with
Proposed Aurora spaceplane. Photo: POLARIS Raumflugzeuge By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 8 April 2026 Secure World Foundation report highlights global reliance on orbiting systems and spread of interference technologies WASHINGTON — Space security is shifting from a niche arms-control concern to a central policy issue as reliance on
Credit: SaxaVord By Greg Cameron, Published by The Times, 8 April 2026Shetland’s SaxaVord, which is mostly owned by the Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, hopes to be the first UK space port to get a rocket into orbit The Shetland space port owned by Scotland’s richest man has reported a
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 4 April 2026 $71 billion request for the U.S. Space Force for fiscal year 2027 includes more than $60 billion for procurement, research and development WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal calls for a sharp expansion of U.S. military
By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 3 April 2026 WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly reduce the agency’s science programs and International Space Station operations. The White House Office of Management and Budget released
An Iranian satellite launched by Russia lifts off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan in August 2022. Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty By Thomas Novelly, Published by Defense One, 2 April 2026 Iran’s nascent space program was destroyed. It's still using other nations' space intel. The U.S. military declared space superiority over Iran this
Vantor non-Earth image of a Chinese imaging satellite, collected under the company’s NGA Luno B contract. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite features a large deployable antenna that enables high-resolution radar imaging from orbit. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 1 April 2026 Under NGA’s Luno program, the company
Artist’s impression of a future Interlune moon mining mission: Interlune By Oliver Holmes, Published by The Guardian, 1 April 2026 Within the lunar dirt is a type of helium so rare on Earth that a palm-sized container is estimated to be worth millions In the silent vacuum of space, five
