A $220,000 Drug Built on Disputed Data
Tavneos generated nearly half a billion dollars in 2025 sales. Now regulators on three continents say the trial that approved it may have been manipulated.
Space & Quantum
Orbital infrastructure, deep space exploration, and quantum advantage.
Big Iron, Big Claims, No Hardware Yet
Cowboy Space wants to put an orbital data center in orbit by 2028. The rocket to get it there hasn't fired a single engine.
Voyager 1 Is One Light-Day Away
On November 18, 2026, humanity's farthest spacecraft crosses a distance milestone 49 years in the making.
Vietnam Joins Space's Expanding Rule Book
As the 78th Artemis Accords signatory, Vietnam signals that Southeast Asia's space ambitions are no longer peripheral to the global order.
Vulcan's Second Chance Lands on Friday the 13th
Nine months after a nozzle failure grounded ULA's flagship rocket, Vulcan returns to flight carrying 40 Amazon Leo satellites — with the Pentagon watching closely.
Moon Pilot to Lead JPL Into Its Next 90 Years
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman trades the cockpit for Caltech's storied deep-space lab as its new deputy director.
Flexell Space Books Two Falcon 9 Slots for Solar Cell Tests
The Korean startup and Singapore's Satoro will fly CIGS and perovskite cells in 2027 and 2028 to build the in-orbit data trail commercial buyers demand.
Ukraine's Satellite Escape Plan Starts in Orbit
A nanosatellite launched on a SpaceX rideshare is the first move toward a communications network Ukraine can actually own.
PCSEL Lasers Head to Space in UK Photonics Push
A Glasgow-led consortium will stress-test Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers for orbital use, aiming to reshape how satellites talk to each other and to Earth.
NASA's PACE Satellite Maps Fall Color Planetwide
A hyperspectral ocean sensor is now tracking autumn leaf pigments across the entire globe, every day or two.
Space Force Wants a Third Spaceport by 2030
The US military needs a new heavy-lift launch site within four years. It hasn't picked a location yet.
Hubble Is Teaching Roman How to Read the Dark
NASA's veteran telescope is cataloguing gravitational lenses one by one — building the playbook a new wide-field observatory will use to map dark matter at scale.
JPL at 90: From a Dry Riverbed to Interstellar Space
The lab that started with amateur rocket tests in Pasadena is now sending helicopters to Mars and drones to the Moon's South Pole.
Perseverance Sets the Interplanetary Distance Record
At 45.22 km driven on Mars, NASA's rover has rewritten the rulebook on autonomous planetary navigation.
NASA Rewires How It Models Rocket Shock
Kennedy Space Center engineers are applying finite element analysis in a new way — and already saving months of work per mission.
The Battery You Never Build
A Melbourne-led study finds that making fewer batteries—not just cleaner ones—could cut billions of tons of CO2 before 2050.
NASA Maps Where Humans Rewrote Earth's Water Book
Two decades of gravity satellite data reveal 40 regions where irrigation, reservoirs, and land use—not climate—are reshaping freshwater storage.
Russia's Kosmos 2612 Stalked a Finnish Imaging Sat
An unsanctioned close-approach in LEO marks a new threshold in orbital aggression—and a direct message to Ukraine's battlefield intelligence.
NASA's Marshall Gets a Director Who Built It
Stephen Cash started his career at Marshall in 1982. Forty-three years later, he's back — this time running the place.
The Operator Who Helped Build Artemis's Ground
Allison Mjoen spent 20 years quietly making launch days possible. On April 1, 2026, she finally watched one with her kids.
NASA Planes Are Sniffing Out Farm Pollution
The FarmFlux mission sends low-altitude aircraft over Texas feedlots and Midwest cropland to map agriculture's murky emissions footprint.
The Satellite Bus That Bends to the Payload
Danish manufacturer Space Inventor is betting that modular, in-house-built mini-constellations can outmaneuver both megaconstellations and legacy procurement.
Griffin-1 Passes JPL's Gauntlet, Moon-Bound
Voyager Technologies' lunar lander survived 153-decibel acoustic blasts and extreme thermal cycling. Next stop: Cape Canaveral.
Four Experiments, One Rocket, Zero Gravity
NASA's CRS-35 mission packs brain organoids, fungal crops, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and a portable lab into a single SpaceX resupply run.
MDA Space Picks Jena-Optronik Star Sensor for LEO
The ASTRO HP's radiation-hard detector and modular design give satellite builders a precise navigation option without a platform redesign.
The Psychedelic Brain Isn't Chaotic. It's Organized.
A Nature study of 62 first-time psilocybin users found hidden structure beneath the neural noise — and a clue to why trips feel meaningful.
NASA Wants Industry to Build the Next Space Station
The agency has issued a formal RFP for commercial low Earth orbit destinations, with contracts expected in spring 2027.
Solar Orbiter Cracks the Case of the Sun's Magnetic Kinks
By flying through a solar switchback and fingerprinting its particles, ESA's probe has settled a decade-long debate about where these structures are born.
SpaceX CRS-35 Carries Retinas, Brain Tissue to Orbit
NASA's 35th Dragon resupply run doubles as a microgravity lab, flying artificial retina hardware and brain organoids to the ISS.
Chemistry Nobel Rewards the Science of Molecular Handedness
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai showed how chemistry can break a 50-50 tie—and why that matters for life, drugs, and origins.
Webb Pulls Back the Dust on NGC 7129
A stellar nursery 3,300 light-years away is finally visible — and it's a chaos of jets, shocks, and newborn stars.
Crew-12 Heads Home: Watch the Pacific Splashdown Live
Four astronauts depart the ISS on Oct. 7, targeting a California coast splashdown the following morning.
NASA's Glowing Wing Rewrites Wind Tunnel Testing
A pressure-sensitive paint that makes wings glow pink-purple is giving researchers a new way to see airflow in real time.
The US Has Finally Opened the Scissors
Thirty years after Sweden proved growth and emissions could decouple, US data confirms the same inflection point arrived in 2008.
Sentinel-1 Sees Through Surigae's Clouds
ESA's radar satellite strips away the storm's canopy to reveal the violent sea surface beneath Typhoon Surigae.
ESA–China's Smile Probe Begins Hunting Space Weather
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft has cleared commissioning and is now mapping how solar wind reshapes Earth's magnetic shield.
Terran Orbital Taps Missile Defense Veteran as COO
Jamin Brown brings two decades of Lockheed Martin experience to Irvine as the small-satellite maker prepares to scale production.
Earth as Rehearsal: PANGAEA Turns 10
ESA's field geology programme has trained 19 astronauts across Europe's wildest terrain. Now it feeds directly into Artemis.
The Quality Engineer Holding Moon Missions Together
At NASA's Stennis Space Center, Kristie Foster moved from contractor to civil servant—and became the institutional memory Artemis can't afford to lose.
Agile Space Hires a President to Scale Its Thruster Business
Jason Wright joins the Durango propulsion maker as it eyes five-times revenue growth and a bigger slice of the in-space market.
Four Centuries, One Name: Galileo's Long Arc
ESA and Florence's Museo Galileo are building an exhibition that traces satellite navigation back to a telescope and four moons.
ESA Picks Three Satellites to Map Climate's Blind Spots
ECO, Keystone, and CryoRad advance toward Earth Explorer 12 — targeting the planet's energy budget, secret atmosphere, and vanishing ice.
NASA Greenlights a $1.2B Infrared Eye on the Cold Universe
The PRIMA telescope will scan wavelengths no NASA observatory has reached before — and may house the coldest optics ever sent to space.
NASA Flags Casting Flaws in Alloy Used on ISS
A new technical bulletin warns that skipping homogenization in aluminum 2219 production leads to corrosion risks in human-rated spacecraft.
Hubble's 200,000th Orbit Has a Mission: Find a Lost Star
A supernova spotted by Webb in 2025 is about to reappear. Hubble's timing data could rewrite the universe's expansion rate.
Juice Is Coming Home — Before It Leaves for Good
ESA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft returns to Earth for a gravity assist that will bend its path 20 degrees and add 3.5 km/s — almost entirely for free.
NASA Launches Seven State Hubs to Build Aerospace Talent
A new network of regional programs aims to close the skills gap between community colleges and the space economy.
The White House Wants Veto Power Over NIH Grants
A pending executive order would let Russell Vought kill individual NIH awards—all 64,000-plus of them—on political grounds.
Terran Orbital Elevates Cardi to Lead European Operations
The engineer who joined Tyvak International as its third employee now oversees all Italian operations and a deep-space asteroid mission.
The 0.1% of Your Brain That Decides You Need Sleep
A tiny population of cortical neurons—one in a thousand—can override wakefulness and initiate deep sleep from inside the cortex itself.
ESA Spotlights Self-Healing Composites and Scout Satellites
Three European companies win ESA's 2026 industry awards—one for a material that patches its own cracks in orbit.
Mars Wears Purple Near Its South Pole
ESA's Mars Express has captured Thyles Rupes in swirls of violet and pink — and the science behind those colours is as layered as the ice itself.
EPA Kills Power Plant Climate Rules in Record Heat
The Trump administration dismantles greenhouse gas standards for power plants as the U.S. logs its hottest summer in 132 years.
Solar Cells That Work Underwater
A Yunnan University team has built perovskite panels that charge batteries on the seafloor. The ocean's power grid just got a blueprint.
NASA's Astronaut Candidates Are Halfway There
Geology in Iceland, supersonic jets, and altitude chambers: the 2025 class is building the skills to reach the Moon and Mars.
NASA Opens the Moon to Everyone
Seventy-one nations have signed the Artemis Accords. Now every lunar sample, dataset, and discovery must be shared with the world.
NOAA Opens Protected Monuments to Trawlers
The Trump administration's new fisheries roadmap would gut four Pacific marine monuments and rewrite the science standards that keep fish stocks alive.
Europe's Space Ambitions Come to a Head in Paris
At a summit convened by Macron, ESA is asking Europe's leaders a hard question: how much does the continent actually want to lead in space?
The Male Fly Brain Is Now Fully Mapped
A collaboration between Janelia Research Campus and Google has completed the fruit fly connectome—both sexes, every synapse.
The Plague Hidden in Plain Sight on Library Shelves
Medieval manuscripts written on sheepskin have spent centuries quietly storing the genetic record of a livestock disease that still breaks out today.