A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new Open Cosmos constellation that will use spectrum previously ...

Weak gravitational lensing, the bending of light from distant galaxies by intervening mass, remains one of the most direct ...

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Open Cosmos deployed two satellites Jan. 22 to activate Ka-band spectrum filings reassigned by Liechtenstein last week, racing to meet deployment deadlines to bring the frequencies into use for ...

Rocket Lab began 2026 with a powerful statement about the future of small satellite launches. On January 22, 2026, its ...

MAHIA, New Zealand, Jan. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...

A Russian satellite named Cosmos 2553 is showing signs that it may no longer be working properly. Launched just weeks before the Ukraine conflict began in 2022, this satellite was sent into a ...

Far out in geosynchronous orbit, a Russian satellite moves through deep space. Cosmos 2553, nicknamed “Sput-nuke,” is designed to carry a nuclear payload that could render most satellites unusable.

A wayward Soviet spacecraft, adrift for more than half a century, will fall to Earth on Friday or Saturday, astronomers said. The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...