NASA celebrates a decade of student contributions to space crop production
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
In 2025, nearly 1,250 students in 71 classrooms participated in the Growing Beyond Earth Student Launch Chat, celebrating ten years of partnership between Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and NASA. Students presented data from classroom crop experiments to NASA Kennedy Space Center experts, supporting NASA's work on selecting crops for future Moon and Mars missions.
Growing Beyond Earth i Lunar impactor Theia originated near Earth and Sun analysis reveals
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
A new study published in Science has traced the origin of Theia, the body that collided with Earth around 4.5 billion years ago and triggered the creation of the Moon. Led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and University of Chicago, the research utilizes ratios of metal isotopes to uncover Theia's place of origin and composition.
The collision with Theia dramatically al Destination: Mars. First Stop: Iceland?
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent its Mars rover "Perseverance" atop an Atlas V rocket to the red planet to collect rock samples, it took the rover nearly seven months to reach its destination. This was only one step in a complex process that will take Lunar dust model highlights risks for spacecraft and future moon base projects
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
A group of researchers in China has developed a new theoretical model to study how low-velocity lunar dust interacts with spacecraft surfaces. The model is designed to improve predictions about dust adhesion and removal, supporting long-term lunar missions and base construction.
The study explains that the lunar surface is covered in fine dust which has a strong tendency to stick to spacec Moss spores withstand long term exposure outside space station
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
Researchers have demonstrated that moss sporophytes can withstand nine months of direct exposure to outer space and remain reproductively viable upon return to Earth. The study, published November 20 in the journal iScience, tested the durability of Physcomitrium patens spores affixed to the outside of the International Space Station.
Lead author Tomomichi Fujita of Hokkaido University exp Plasmasphere compressed by recent geomagnetic superstorm dramatically slowed recovery
Saturday, 22 November 2025 06:57
Researchers have detailed how a geomagnetic superstorm on May 10-11, 2024, shrank Earth's plasmasphere, a protective zone of charged particles, to just one-fifth of its normal size. The event, named the Gannon storm or Mother's Day storm, was the most powerful in over twenty years.
Led by Dr. Atsuki Shinbori at Nagoya University's Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, the team Blue Origin advances Blue Ring spacecraft toward 2026 national security mission
Friday, 21 November 2025 22:47
The company is pitching Blue Ring as a workhorse for military missions that demand aggressive maneuvering in orbit
Think tank urges Europe to scale up space-based data center efforts
Friday, 21 November 2025 21:32
Europe must move quickly to craft a large-scale strategy for space-based data centers or risk ceding a potential pillar of future digital infrastructure to global competitors, according to the European Space Policy Institute.
Finland’s Iceye secures Japanese contract as it advances international expansion, new satellite ranges
Friday, 21 November 2025 20:15
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The European Space Agency's Ministerial Council – more formally Council at Ministerial level – takes place in Bremen, Germany on 26 and 27 November 2025.
How mega-constellations are learning to manage themselves
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ESA unveils Thales Alenia Space-led consortium for its Argonaut lunar lander
Friday, 21 November 2025 15:45
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Good to go – Let's Smile (episode 4)
Friday, 21 November 2025 12:30
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Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms.
At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have taken Smile through the final steps of testing and past its qualification and flight acceptance review – confirming that it is ready for launch in spring 2026.
This video let’s viewers peek into the testing and review process. It is the fourth episode in a series of short videos, and includes interviews with David Agnolon (ESA Smile Project Manager), Xia Jiayi (CAS Thermal