Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
The ice giant Uranus, known for its peculiar sideways rotation, has revealed new atmospheric secrets thanks to a 20-year observational campaign using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Through precise imaging and spectral data collected over two decades, researchers have mapped long-term atmospheric dynamics and composition changes that offer key insights into this distant world.
This extensivWashington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
Every NASA mission represents a leap into the unknown, collecting data that pushes the boundaries of human understanding. But the story doesn't end when the mission concludes. The data carefully preserved in NASA's archives often finds new purpose decades later, unlocking discoveries that continue to benefit science, technology, and society.
"NASA's science data is one of our most valuableParis, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
A key achievement for European commercial spaceflight has been achieved as Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket completes a brief but successful maiden test flight from Norway's Andoya Spaceport, ascending for 30 seconds and clearing the pad in a vital demonstration of its liftoff capabilities.
Spectrum, a two-stage launch vehicle developed by German company Isar Aerospace, stands 28 meters taBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
Isar Aerospace, a startup emerging from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has successfully completed the inaugural test flight of its launch vehicle. This marks a historic milestone as the first orbital-class rocket launch conducted from Western European soil. The new vehicle is engineered to deploy small and mid-sized satellites into orbit, a capability that is growing increasingly esseBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
For the first time, scientists have confirmed that certain species of lichen can remain metabolically active while exposed to simulated Martian conditions, including levels of ionizing radiation equivalent to those expected during intense solar activity on Mars.
The findings, published in the open-access journal IMA Fungus, point to the extraordinary resilience of lichens and their potentiLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is on track for a planned launch in late 2027, with a major milestone recently achieved. A critical part of the spacecraft-its instrument enclosure-returned to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California in early March after completing rigorous environmental testing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The 12-foot (3.7-meLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
A quartet of diminutive planets has been confirmed in orbit around Barnard's Star, a nearby red dwarf long known for stirring debate over questionable planet sightings. Thanks to cutting-edge observational tools, scientists now say the new detection is solid. The discovery marks a milestone in tracking down small exoplanets across vast interstellar distances.
Barnard's Star, just six lightLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
Gravitics has secured a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) award from SpaceWERX, a division of the U.S. Space Force, which could provide up to $60 million in combined government, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and private investment to advance and flight-test its Orbital Carrier system.
The Orbital Carrier is a novel in-space logistics platform that enables the pre-positioninLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
Aventura Private Wealth has completed its first fundraise, securing $9.5 million in just over a week for a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) exclusively dedicated to SpaceX. The rapid close of Aventura Space Fund 1, LLC highlights the growing investor appetite for access to high-growth private tech firms.
"This milestone reflects both the trust our clients place in Aventura Private Wealth and Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 02, 2025
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have devised an innovative method to repair bricks made from lunar soil using bacteria, a technique that could prove essential for maintaining structures built in the moon's extreme environment.
As lunar exploration shifts toward permanent settlement, exemplified by NASA's Artemis initiative, reducing dependence on Earth-supplied buildiLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2025
AI is one of the most popular and controversial topics discussed today, not only in tech-focused media. We decided to find out what running an AI development company is like today. To do this, we interviewed Oleg Goncharenko, a man who has been in charge of such a business for almost 15 years. Oleg himself is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of business experience, 15 of them in tech businesseLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
An international team of scientists has unraveled the story behind the April 2019 fall of rare meteorites near Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica, highlighting that these so-called "mudball" meteorites can be much more robust than previously assumed.
"27 kilos of rocks were recovered, making this the largest fall of its kind since similar meteorites fell near Murchison in Australia in 196Paris, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus the contract to design and construct the landing platform for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, marking a major step forward for the mission targeting a 2028 launch. The European-led initiative will search for traces of life, past or present, on Mars.
Airbus teams in the UK will handle development of the platform's mechanical systems, tLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
New research involving the University of Colorado Boulder warns that exposure to Martian dust could pose serious health threats to astronauts on future missions. According to the study, prolonged contact with this extraterrestrial dust may result in chronic lung damage, disruptions to thyroid function, and other harmful conditions.
Published in the journal GeoHealth, the study is the firstLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
The UK Space Agency has announced the winner of its Aqualunar Challenge, a Pounds 150,000 award recognizing pioneering technology to purify water extracted from frozen lunar soil. Gloucestershire-based Naicker Scientific claimed the top prize with its SonoChem System, an innovative device that uses high-frequency sound waves to clean water derived from lunar ice.
The prize, part of a larg