Purdue University will conduct a dedicated suborbital research flight with Virgin Galactic in 2027 carrying a professor, student and alumni.

The director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has abruptly stepped down, becoming the third NASA center director to leave in recent months.

Gen. Stephen Whiting: ‘Our missile defenses have done a good job during the most recent conflicts, but most of those are focused on terminal engagement, and we want to be able to push that engagement to the left and eventually left of launch.

Beyond Gravity has secured a contract to deliver robotic arm thruster pointing mechanisms for the small satellites Swissto12 is building for geostationary orbit.

Week in images: 22-26 September 2025

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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”.

Image: 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.

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.

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