Space

Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket launch is now slated for 2027 due to manufacturing defects in its carbon composite structures, highlighting industry-wide difficulties with the advanced material.

peak sheep may be over in the UK as breeding ewe numbers hit their lowest in living memory and lamb eating continues to fall.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have examined young star systems experiencing cataclysmic events, offering a window into the early Solar System.

A chinstrap penguin decline of 63% in occupied nests on Zavodovski Island was recorded, while macaroni penguins thrived.

MEGATRON simulations connect JWST's earliest galaxies to the chemical fingerprints in ancient stars, linking the first stars to the universe today.

Agile Space Industries strengthens its board and corporate development team to support growth, naming Jonathan Baliff and Theo Squires.

The US Space Force has retired the final Defense Support Program satellites, ending over 55 years of space-based missile launch detection.

Asteroid Bennu's mixed isotopic makeup puzzles scientists, and a new paper points to Jupiter's early growth as the likely cause.

As US relations fray, Canada Rocket Company and two others get launch awards, and Canada Rocket Company plans the R-2 medium-lift rocket.

China launches Guowang and Yaogan-40 satellites, reaching 70 orbital launch attempts for 2026 ahead of a busy Q4 manifest.

NASA will buy two additional Starliner flights, pay Boeing $359 million for thruster rebuilds and Vulcan certification, and name Woody Hoburg to command Starliner-2.

The SKA-Low telescope had to tweak nature's perfect sunflower spiral after tests found a sensitivity gap at 125 MHz in its antenna layout.