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Starship launches through heavy fog. Credit: nader saremi on Unsplash

Commercial, Opinion, Policy & Politics

The grief of a fandom: on Starship, Musk and losing the spark

by Dan RobitzskiSeptember 10, 2025September 10, 2025

Why do people defend someone who has done things that are frankly terrible?

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A visualization of active and inactive satellites, discarded rocket bodies, orbital debris and other space objects around Earth, showing an increasingly cluttered and hazardous Earth orbit. Credit: AstriaGraph by the University of Texas at Austin.

Opinion, Policy & Politics

Open letter from the Global Space Council: Governments must address a growing crisis in our orbits

by gregoryrtJuly 15, 2025July 11, 2025

European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Lisa Campbell sign a cooperation agreement between Europe and Canada June 6 at CSA headquarters. Credit: CSA

Civil, From the Magazine, Policy & Politics

A new approach to space diplomacy: Hard-hitting calculations outweigh foreign-policy considerations

by Debra WernerJuly 9, 2025September 17, 2025

Civil, Opinion, Policy & Politics

The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail

by Dan RobitzskiJune 16, 2025June 15, 2025

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA STSCI

Civil, Opinion, Policy & Politics

Trump assaults American space science

by Dan RobitzskiMay 9, 2025May 6, 2025

Computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Credit: NASA

Opinion, Policy & Politics

Reaping space’s decline? Why to choose the durability of due regard over the debris of military devastation

by Dan RobitzskiFebruary 24, 2025February 21, 2025

News, Policy & Politics

What Trump’s first weeks back in office mean for space

by Mike GrussFebruary 7, 2025February 7, 2025

A July 6, 2015 image of Africa and Europe taken by NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Credit: NASA

Opinion, Policy & Politics

Why more US-African space cooperation is the answer

by Dan RobitzskiFebruary 6, 2025February 3, 2025

The 2021 Perseid meteor shower, photographed over West Virginia. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA

A call to stargaze with strangers

by Dan RobitzskiJanuary 31, 2025January 30, 2025

Civil, Opinion, Policy & Politics

SLS in transition: from Biden to Trump

by Dan RobitzskiJanuary 23, 2025January 22, 2025