One hour of satellite crossings over the northern Atacama Desert in Chile in October 2025. (Image credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser) By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space.com, 28 September 2026 The International Court of Justice's advisory opinions can be used in local cases. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) could
By Shawn Simpson, Posted on Katie Singer's Substack, 16 September 2026 Here’s a new technology—satellites with mirrors. It could and beam sunlight to Earth at night! Solar panels could get more hours to generate electricity! The military could use this, somehow. Shawn Simpson wrote this piece, originally published in the
Image Credit: SpaceX By Stephen Marcantel, Published by The Current, 3 September 2026 By the time the public comment period on a proposed Federal Aviation Administration rule change closed Monday night, thousands had shared their thoughts — more than half of them mentioning Louisiana and its rapidly eroding coastline, fragile
By The Artful Age Editorial Team, 2 September 2026 A patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria. That number holds whether the skin belongs to a toddler, a grandmother, or an astronaut sealed inside a spacesuit on the way to the Moon.
The Kosmos 954 satellite burned up upon reentry, scattering radioactive debris across northern Canada (Screenshot via YouTube) By Chris Jeremia, Published by Space Daily, 29 August 2026 Moscow's ambassador said the reactor on board had been designed for complete destruction on re-entry — radioactivity had already fallen across 124,000 square
SpaceX founder Elon Musk celebrates after the historic first launch of astronauts aboard a SpaceX craft in May. (Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton) By Wesley Muller, Published by Louisiana Illuminator, 25 August 2026 Starbase Louisiana a self-sustaining rocket launch city ABBEVILLE — Following months of rumors, SpaceX confirmed Tuesday
By Jonathan O'Callaghan, Published by MIT Technology Review, 21 August 2026 Reflect Orbital’s giant beams will shine as bright as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers. A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for
A Chinese LandSapce ZhuQue-3 booster, the country's first to successfully touch down on land. LandSpace By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 19 August 2026 Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of
