Paris, France (SPX) Nov 28, 2025
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme has expanded with the launch of eight Eaglet II satellites, adding a second constellation to the growing national fleet. The spacecraft rode into orbit on a Falcon 9 mission that lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 19:44 CET on 28 November, with deployment completed about an hour after launch and signals from all satellites later

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million km from Earth. Hubble tracked the comet as it moved across the sky. As a result, background stars appear as streaks of light.

Hubble previously observed 3I/ATLAS in July, shortly after its discovery, and a number of observatories have since studied the comet as well. Observations are expected to continue for several more months as 3I/ATLAS heads out of the solar system.

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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures observed so far, a thin string of hydrogen-rich galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament around 140 million light-years away. The work, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers new constraints on how large-scale structures influence the formati

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
SwRI scientists report that a reanalysis of Voyager 2 measurements suggests a powerful solar storm may explain why Uranus hosts an electron radiation belt far more intense than expected. They propose that a large-scale solar wind structure, known as a co-rotating interaction region, was passing through the Uranian system during the 1986 flyby, driving extreme space weather conditions that booste

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
DLR and ESA are recruiting volunteers for two human research campaigns at the :envihab aerospace medicine facility in Cologne that will simulate key aspects of long duration missions beyond low Earth orbit. The SOLIS100 isolation study will place six participants in a confined, spacecraft like habitat for 100 days, while the SMC3 bed rest study will keep 12 volunteers in head down tilt for 60 da

Paris (AFP) Dec 3, 2025
Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost all the images taken by space telescopes, NASA astronomers warned Wednesday. Scientists have already been sounding the alarm about how light pollution from increasingly massive satellites threaten the future of dark skies seen from the ground. Now,

SpaceX and Amazon stand to get about 4% of the nearly $20 billion that states have proposed for rural broadband buildouts, representing roughly 21% of the locations under the federal BEAD program.