Week in images: 22-26 September 2025
Friday, 26 September 2025 12:10
Week in images: 22-26 September 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Redefining space diplomacy for the 21st century: from orbits to outcomes
Friday, 26 September 2025 10:00
ESA shares stage with international partners at IAC 2025
Friday, 26 September 2025 08:00
The European Space Agency (ESA) is participating in the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which will open its doors on Monday 29 September and last until Friday 3 October in Sydney, Australia. Over 8000 participants from 90 countries are expected to attend the event at the International Convention Centre (ICC) under the theme “Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth”.
Earth from Space: Northeast Greenland National Park
Friday, 26 September 2025 07:00
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Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Collision of equal sized bodies may explain Mercurys unique composition
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
A new study suggests that Mercury's unusual structure may have resulted from a grazing collision between two similar sized protoplanets, rather than a rare catastrophic impact with a much larger body. Mercury's dense metallic core makes up about 70% of its mass, while its rocky mantle remains unusually thin compared to other terrestrial planets.
The research, led by Patrick Franco of the N
A new study suggests that Mercury's unusual structure may have resulted from a grazing collision between two similar sized protoplanets, rather than a rare catastrophic impact with a much larger body. Mercury's dense metallic core makes up about 70% of its mass, while its rocky mantle remains unusually thin compared to other terrestrial planets.
The research, led by Patrick Franco of the N Gravitino emerges as contender in dark matter search
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Dark matter continues to puzzle physicists, despite decades of experiments and many competing theories. A recent study by researchers from the University of Warsaw and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics introduces a striking alternative candidate: supermassive charged gravitinos. Their findings, published in Physical Review Research, suggest that new underground neutrino detectors may be uniquely equipped to spot these elusive particles.
Dark matter continues to puzzle physicists, despite decades of experiments and many competing theories. A recent study by researchers from the University of Warsaw and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics introduces a striking alternative candidate: supermassive charged gravitinos. Their findings, published in Physical Review Research, suggest that new underground neutrino detectors may be uniquely equipped to spot these elusive particles. Molecular 'fossils' offer microscopic clues to the origins of life - but they take care to interpret
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.
In our work as evolutionary biochemists and protein historians, these core questions form the foundation of our research programs. To study life's history bill
The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen.
In our work as evolutionary biochemists and protein historians, these core questions form the foundation of our research programs. To study life's history bill New Mars research reveals multiple episodes of habitability in Jezero Crater
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported life.
By analyzing high-resolution geochemical data from the rover, scientists have identified two dozen types of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, that help reveal a dynamic history of vol
New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported life.
By analyzing high-resolution geochemical data from the rover, scientists have identified two dozen types of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, that help reveal a dynamic history of vol Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Hsinchu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to secure internet and phone services during a potential conflict with China.
The island faces the constant threat of an invasion by Beijing, which claims the island is part of its territory and in recent years has intensified military pressure.
Taiwan needs 150 of its ow
Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to secure internet and phone services during a potential conflict with China.
The island faces the constant threat of an invasion by Beijing, which claims the island is part of its territory and in recent years has intensified military pressure.
Taiwan needs 150 of its ow AV secures new contract option to deliver BADGER phased array systems for SCAR program
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) has been awarded a firm-fixed-price option by the U.S. Space Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office to deliver two BADGER phased array antenna systems under the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. This marks the first option exercised under the SCAR Other Transaction Agreement, aimed at boosting system performance, deployment speed, and
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) has been awarded a firm-fixed-price option by the U.S. Space Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office to deliver two BADGER phased array antenna systems under the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. This marks the first option exercised under the SCAR Other Transaction Agreement, aimed at boosting system performance, deployment speed, and NASA launches mission to study space weather
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, which can interfere with technology and power systems on Earth.
The three probes blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, built by the private company SpaceX.
Once in space, the probes will begin a long journey to reach the Lagrange
The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, which can interfere with technology and power systems on Earth.
The three probes blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, built by the private company SpaceX.
Once in space, the probes will begin a long journey to reach the Lagrange NASA's ESCAPADE craft returns to Florida for fall mission to Mars
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2025
NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall.
NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesday after NASA halted its initial attempted launch last year, the U.S. space agency announced Monday.
NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall.
NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesday after NASA halted its initial attempted launch last year, the U.S. space agency announced Monday. Selfie satellite completes mission milestone for Australia
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite has completed its first mission phase, marking a major step for the nation's role in the global space industry. Developed by the University of Melbourne with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI), SpIRIT is the first Australian Space Agency-funded space telescope to host a foreign payload as its primary instrument.
Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro
Australia's SpIRIT nanosatellite has completed its first mission phase, marking a major step for the nation's role in the global space industry. Developed by the University of Melbourne with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI), SpIRIT is the first Australian Space Agency-funded space telescope to host a foreign payload as its primary instrument.
Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 ro NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Columbus, OH (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, including at least one American - a streak that will soon reach 25 years.
When viewed in the history of spaceflight, the International Space Station is perhaps one of humanity's most amazing accomplishments, a shining example of coope
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, including at least one American - a streak that will soon reach 25 years.
When viewed in the history of spaceflight, the International Space Station is perhaps one of humanity's most amazing accomplishments, a shining example of coope Two newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun
Friday, 26 September 2025 05:27
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares - intense bursts of energy in the Sun's atmosphere - and coronal mass ejections - eruptions of plasma from the Sun - can affect the communications, satellite navigation and power grid systems that keep society functioning.
On Sep
Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares - intense bursts of energy in the Sun's atmosphere - and coronal mass ejections - eruptions of plasma from the Sun - can affect the communications, satellite navigation and power grid systems that keep society functioning.
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