Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 19, 2025
US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that he wants to send astronauts back to the Moon as soon as possible, putting eventual Mars missions on the back burner. In an executive order on his space policy, Trump said he wanted to get Americans to the Moon by 2028, under NASA's Artemis program launched during his first White House term. Such a lunar landing would "assert American l

Image: Dwarf stars in a glittering sky

Image: This week Earth from Space features a wintery image: a red and white sphere that, if seen from a distance, resembles a festive decoration.

In 2025, Europe celebrated the 30th anniversary of satellite navigation on the continent, a milestone built on decades of innovation, collaboration and excellence. Three decades of challenges and triumphs that have shaped the navigation systems we rely on today: EGNOS and Galileo, and that serve as legacy to building the satellite navigation systems of tomorrow.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
The selection of a web testing framework may at times not be very easy. In fact, with so many tools that claim to speed up your testing process, it often comes down to which tool best fits your team's skill sets, project scope, and long-term testing objectives. Whether you're a QA manager, SDET, tester, or engineer, you want a framework that supports quality and grows with your development process

Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025
Fusion is the cosmic process that powers stars, shapes galaxies, and enables the chemical diversity needed for life. From the earliest stars to modern planetary systems, fusion converts hydrogen into heavier elements, forging the matter that makes up worlds, atmospheres, and living organisms. The Sun's steady fusion output governs Earth's climate and underlies all biological and technological energy flows, from photosynthesis to fossil fuels.

In a historical milestone, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, scientists saw the impact of massive objects around the star. The Fomalhaut system appears to be in a dynamical upheaval, similar to what our Solar System experienced in its first few hundred million years after formation.

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Watch the replay of the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on key decisions taken at the ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 17 and 18 December 2025.

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Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.

In this collage, we see the images of 31 baby star systems. Click on the white dots next to each system to find out more about them. The bar on the top right shows the scale of the image in Astronomical Units (AU).

The collage also shows our own Solar System for reference on the bottom right, as it is predicted to have looked at