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From Petah Tikva to orbit: Gilat Satellite Networks surges 160%, becoming an investor favorite

While Starlink and Amazon race to deploy satellites in space, Israel’s Gilat sells the ground equipment that connects them; Defense contracts, strategic acquisitions and major tenders have lifted its market value to about 3.5 billion shekels

Tal Shahaf | 02.10.26

Christina Koch’s long road to the moon, from Antarctic ice to NASA’s Artemis 2

A veteran of Antarctic winters, record-setting space missions and all-female spacewalks, NASA astronaut Christina Koch is days away from making history as the first woman to travel around the moon aboard Artemis 2

Yaron Drukman | 01.31.26

Mitzpe Ramon launches Space City campus with Nvidia partnership

The new campus will host mission control rooms, Mars simulation labs and startup accelerators, with Nvidia joining as a partner in a 100 million shekel project

Israel Wullman | 01.29.26

Astronauts’ brains shift in space, with changes lingering after return to Earth, study finds

New research tracking astronauts before and after spaceflight found the brain moves upward and backward in microgravity, with longer missions linked to greater shifts and some effects persisting for months, raising questions for future moon and Mars missions

Tzur Gueta | 01.18.26

גז מולקולרי בתווך התוך-צבירי של צביר הגלקסיות SPT2349-56

Astronomers discover rare galaxy cluster from dawn of universe

Extremely hot cloud of gas detected inside galaxy cluster SPT2349-56, formed just 1.4 billion years after Big Bang, challenging cosmological models that place such extreme temperatures much later in the evolution of galaxy clusters

Yogev Israeli | 01.12.26

Who soared and who sank: the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's biggest winners and losers in 2025

This past year was historic for the Israeli stock market, with indices surging and outperforming Wall Street; security firms and investment houses will remember 2025 fondly, while biomed and medical robotics companies were left behind

Navit Zomer | 12.29.25

המילים 'משימת הירח הרוסית', ירח ודגל רוסיה

Russia plans nuclear power station on the moon as global lunar race intensifies

Russia says it plans to build a nuclear power station on the moon by 2036 to support a long-term lunar program with China, as competition with the United States and other space powers accelerates

Yogev Israeli, Reuters | 12.25.25

The second Hubble Space Telescope view of comet 3I/ATLAS

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in new images as it makes final pass through solar system

NASA and ESA release detailed views of 3I/ATLAS as the fast-moving interstellar comet approaches its Dec. 19 closest pass to Earth, with Hubble and Juice capturing its bright coma, twin tails and intense activity after its encounter with the sun

ynet Global | 12.08.25

Moonshot emerges from stealth with $12M raise to reshape orbital cargo and hypersonic testing

Israeli startup debuts with a system that accelerates payloads to hypersonic speeds, aiming to reshape orbital resupply, cut testing costs and ease a major bottleneck in global hypersonics development, backed by major Israeli tech and defense veterans

ynet Global | 12.01.25

נשיא ארה"ב דונלד טראמפ נואם בחדר הסגלגל של הבית הלבן, הודיע על מגן ההגנה מפני טילים של כיפת הזהב

US Space Force awards contracts to build Golden Dome missile defense prototypes

Pentagon racing to build 'American Iron Dome' with interceptors deployed in space; final production contracts could be worth tens of billions of dollars; it would place weapons in orbit to destroy threats earlier than current ground-based systems

Reuters | 11.26.25

Inside the Arab space race: how the UAE is outpacing rivals with advanced space tech and partnerships

Dubai Air Show was the Emirates' big moment, but neighboring Saudi Arabia is battling it out for space supremacy, and Oman, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco are also developing space programs; What to expect: astronautics, radars and observation satellites named after MBZ

Lior Ben Ari | 11.24.25

אבישי דקל, זוכה פרס לנדאו בתחום אסטרופיזיקה וחלל

Prof. Avishai Dekel, pioneering Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist, dies at 74

Dekel spent decades as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published hundreds of groundbreaking studies on the structure and evolution of the universe

Yaron Drukman | 11.18.25

צד אחד יבש (לפני הריאקציה) וצד אחד רטוב (אחרי הריאקציה)

Israeli-American team discovers many distant planets may have water on them

Study shows that under the extreme pressures and temperatures inside sub-Neptune planets, dense hydrogen can react with molten rock to create substantial quantities of water

Yogev Israeli | 11.18.25

New model solves the mystery of opposite winds on giant planets

Weizmann Institute researchers uncover why jet streams on Jupiter and Saturn blow east while those on Uranus and Neptune blow west — a new model links the mystery to differences in atmospheric depth

ynet Global | 10.20.25

הדמיה של אירוע שבו חור שחור קורע כוכב הרחק ממרכז הגלקסיה

Astronomers detect record radio burst from black hole destroying a star

An international team led by UC Berkeley astronomers, including Israeli researchers, discovered an extraordinary cosmic event showing the fastest radio emission ever observed from a black hole destroying a star outside a galactic core

ynet Global | 10.16.25

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