December 24th, 2025
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The profound prospect of finding out that “we’re not alone” may also have weighty wait-a-minute consequences. A recent poll indicates that half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth. The poll was produced by YouGov US, an international online research data and analytics technology group. This polling finds that most Americans believe aliens exist, and […]
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Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has announced that a government contract has been struck with NPO Lavochkin to create a lunar power station by 2036. It is not immediately clear in the Roscosmos statement if that power station would be nuclear. However, the contract implementation period is 2025–2036 and involves Rosatom and the Kurchatov Institute participation. […]
Air vehicles of nameless origin, unknown intent, and seemingly odd capabilities are operating within America’s national airspace, flying over sensitive facilities, and interfering with commercial air traffic. All of this aerial weirdness involves Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAP for short. Whatever they are, UAPs continue to be seen, reported, and even documented through various technologies. […]
Mars Guy checks in with Abe after 13 – plus years on Mars. “A year on Earth has passed since we last checked in on the century old Lincoln penny that’s part of a camera calibration target on the Curiosity rover,” explains Mars Guy. “It was notably clean at that time but Mars has since […]
Blue Origin successfully launched the 37th flight of the New Shepard program on December 20, 2025. The crew included: Michaela (Michi) Benthaus, Joey Hyde, Hans Koenigsmann, Neal Milch, Adonis Pouroulis, and Jason Stansell. This mission marked the first time a wheelchair user has flown above the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of […]
China on Saturday sent a new communication technology test satellite via a Long March-5 booster into space from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province. Meanwhile, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) confirmed the launch and expected launch leftovers to careen within identified drop zones: approximately 69 nautical miles away from Burgos, Ilocos […]
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order that sets a bold vision for an “America First space policy,” ensuring the United States leads the world in space exploration, security, and commerce. Described by the White House as launching a “New Age of American Space Achievement,” the Order calls for Americans’ return to the […]
A few months ago, NASA announced that the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) has been green-lighted to set down at the Moon’s south pole region. The space agency awarded Blue Origin a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order to deliver the Moon machinery. Blue Moon’s MK1 lander, which is in production, would be […]
The private group, Max Space, has turned up the volume on inflatable habitats announcing today its “Thunderbird Station.” Designed around a large expandable habitat, the station offers more usable volume per launch than any traditional metallic module. Max Space also stated that its first in-orbit expandable habitat is manifested on a SpaceX rideshare launch in […]
A study from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) notes that the global space economy is poised to nearly triple to $1.8 trillion by 2035, making the value derived from orbital assets equivalent to that of some G20 economies. “We’ve entered an ambitious new space age—and Canada needs an ambitious new space strategy,” the study explains. […]
