Week in images: 06-10 October 2025
Friday, 10 October 2025 12:15
Week in images: 06-10 October 2025
Discover our week through the lens
New Zealand charts continued growth of its space industry
Friday, 10 October 2025 11:24
The New Zealand government is touting the progress it is making to grow the country’s aerospace industry.
Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A University of Houston team reports that a rare bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly clean rooms can evade detection by entering dormancy, effectively "playing dead" in a nutrient-poor environment.
The microorganism, Tersicoccus phoenicis, turned up in two clean rooms more than a decade ago in Florida and French Guiana. These facilities undergo rigorous sterilization to protect spa

TERN raises seed funding extension to scale satellite free navigation for vehicles fleets and defense
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
TERN has closed a $7.5 million Seed Extension to accelerate deployment of its Independently Derived Positioning System (IDPS), an AI-driven, satellite-free navigation technology for commercial and defense customers. Investors include Scout VC, Vanderbilt Endowment, Shadow Capital, Bravo Victor VC and others. The company is advancing in the U.S. Army's xTechOverwatch competition, highlighting dua

Europe's new METimage instrument delivers first ultra-detailed views of Earth
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
EUMETSAT has unveiled the first Earth imagery from the METimage instrument aboard its newly launched Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite, offering an early look at the mission's extraordinary visual clarity and scientific potential.
Captured on 24 September 2025, METimage's debut scene spans Europe and North Africa, detailing complex weather systems, cloud fronts, and clear-s

Far side lunar mantle found cooler than near side in Chang'e 6 sample study
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
London UK (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
The lunar far side may have a colder interior than the near side, according to a new analysis of rock samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission. A study led by researchers from UCL and Peking University examined 300 g of lunar soil retrieved from a vast crater, revealing key differences in mantle temperature and composition between the two hemispheres.
The research, published in Natur

Dark energy's shifting role explored through advanced supercomputer simulations
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
Since the early 20th century, scientists have known that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. This acceleration has been attributed to dark energy, a mysterious property of spacetime that counteracts gravity. Traditionally, cosmologists have treated dark energy as constant under the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, but new data are challenging this assumption.
Recent fin

Lunar and Earth Construction Robot Charlotte to Debut in Sydney
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology will present Charlotte, the first robot capable of constructing buildings on both Earth and the Moon, at the 76th International Astronautical Congress in Sydney. The project, supported by the NSW Space+ Program and SmartSat CRC, integrates advanced robotics with Earthbuilt's low-carbon building process to meet urgent housing and space exploration needs.

Advancing European satellite security through quantum communications
Friday, 10 October 2025 08:11
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a euro 50 million contract with Thales Alenia Space to initiate the preliminary design phase of the Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission. This milestone marks a significant step toward establishing secure quantum communications from orbit.
SAGA's goal is to demonstrate satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD), which enables encryption

She saw a car-sized object above a Texas farm and found a wayward hunk of NASA equipment
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Earth from Space: Cyclone Errol
Friday, 10 October 2025 07:00
Europe needs reusable rockets to catch Musk's SpaceX: ESA chief
Friday, 10 October 2025 01:10
Paris (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Europe must quickly get its own reusable rocket launcher to catch up to billionaire Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher told AFP in an interview.
While the US company has an overwhelming lead in the booming space launch industry, a series of setbacks, including Russia's withdrawal of its rockets, left Europe without an independent way to blast its mis

Lunar mega basin signals radioactive ejecta and reshapes Moon origin story
Friday, 10 October 2025 01:10
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
New analyses of the South Pole-Aitken basin recast the formation of the Moon's largest impact crater and what it reveals about lunar origins. Led by University of Arizona planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, the study in Nature outlines how the basin's geometry and chemistry point to a northward-moving impactor and a radioactive-rich ejecta deposit.
Spanning more than 1,200 miles nor

Milky Way hosts giant wave of stars revealed by Gaia
Friday, 10 October 2025 01:10
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
Scientists using the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope have discovered a vast stellar wave rippling across the Milky Way's disc, extending tens of thousands of light-years from the Sun. The finding adds to Gaia's record of uncovering the galaxy's dynamic structure, following its earlier identification of the disc's rotation, warp, and wobble.
Like ripples spreading from a rock cast in
