Jiuquan, China (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
A crew of three Chinese astronauts, including the country's youngest-ever, docked early Saturday at the Tiangong space station, accompanied by four lab mice. The Shenzhou-21 spaceship docked at 3:22 am (1922 GMT Friday), China's state news agency Xinhua reported. That was about three-and-a-half hours after the spaceship departed from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new atomically layered material which experiences a five order of magnitude resistivity reduction when oxidized, a change that exceeds a hundred times the reduction observed in comparable non-layered materials. Investigating the structure, the team identified how the synergy between oxidation and structural modifications leads to ma

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) will launch the Mengzhou-1 crewed spaceship in 2026 following extensive upgrades to its predecessor, the Shenzhou model. Mengzhou features a modular design consisting of a return capsule and a service capsule and will operate as the primary link between Earth and the space station. The first flight of Mengzhou-1 will utilize the Long March-10A rocket fr

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 2, 2025
On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration", promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa's Artemis programme is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon and, eventually, send humans to Mars. That mission will last around three years and cover hundreds of millions of kilometres. The crew will face radiat

Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 2, 2025
The Space Travel Analog Research Team (START) successfully launched their payload as part of the 7th Annual Canada Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley, and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency's Timmins stratospheric balloon base. Left to right: START members Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley (Year 4 EngSci), and Emre Yilmaz

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
A Keio University-led research team, working with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has precisely measured the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) temperature at redshift z=0.89, corresponding to about 7 billion years ago, by analyzing archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data targeting the quasar PKS1830-211. The CMB is faint primordial radiat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
Aitech Systems has conducted radiation testing for the S-A2300 AI supercomputer to determine its suitability for low Earth orbit missions. On May 6, 2025, the S-A2300 underwent gamma irradiation using cobalt-60 at a specialized facility. The evaluation followed MIL-STD-883 guidelines, exposing the unit to dose rates of 2815 rad per minute at ambient temperature while powered and connected to tes

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 29, 2025
Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be tested in the future. On their way into space, astronauts' bodies deteriorate dramatically in zero gravity. To address this problem and protect our pioneers in space, researchers are looking for re

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 1, 2025
Spatiam Corporation has developed a commercial platform for space communications based on Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), designed to manage data transmission delays and signal disruptions caused by vast distances and planetary movement in the solar system. The platform temporarily stores data bundles at intermediate network nodes until a path to the next node or target destinati