Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s space hardware team has delivered a payload for NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R satellite. LLNL developed the optical payload, called Deep Purple – ...

Shortly after theinterstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest pass by Mars, China stopped publicly tracking it, despite having led early detection efforts. The abrupt halt in data sharing left a ...

The pause has fuelled debate about whether it resulted from technical limits, shifting priorities or deliberate policy. Early ...