Space

An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time. The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren’t the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their…

Earth got some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system – with a little help from the solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, according to a recent study. To figure out why we’re all here, and whether anyone else might be out there in the universe, scientists have to start with a more basic question: how did Earth get its supply of the chemicals that make up…

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, on screen during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City on Friday, June 12, 2026. (Image credit: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images) For better or for worse, the world has its first trillionaire: Elon Musk. On Friday (June 12), Musk’s rocket company SpaceX made its debut on the Nasdaq, marking the largest IPO in…

Scientists may have finally seen the sun telegraph an eruption hours before it happened — and the one caught was one of our star’s most powerful explosions. Drawing on a rare dataset collected in the hours leading up to a massive solar flare, scientists identified a series of changes in the sun’s atmosphere that offer new clues about how major eruptions begin. Eventually, these results…