Webb traces details of complex planetary nebula
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 13:00
More than one star contributes to the irregular shape of NGC 6072 – Webb’s newest look at this planetary nebula in the near- and mid-infrared shows what may appear as a very messy scene resembling splattered paint. However, the unusual, asymmetrical scene hints at more complicated mechanisms underway, as the star central to the scene approaches the very final stages of its life and expels shells of material, losing up to 80 percent of its mass.
KSAT and AWS expand alliance in satellite communications
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 13:00
SAN FRANCISCO — Kongsberg Satellite Services and Amazon Web Services are expanding their alliance to speed up the flow of satellite data to customers.
China launches new group of Guowang satellites from commercial spaceport
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 12:10
GSLV launches NASA-ISRO radar satellite
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 11:51
An Indian rocket placed into orbit a billion-dollar Earth science mission jointly developed by NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO.
A troubling shift in Europe’s forest carbon balance
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 11:37
Europe’s forests play a crucial role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but research led by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide has declined in the past decade.
Galileo enhances security edge with new authentication service led by GMV
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 08:22
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has officially activated Galileo's new Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA), bolstering the system's capability to combat signal spoofing and data tampering.
OSNMA functions by digitally signing navigation signals, allowing users to authenticate data as genuinely transmitted by Galileo. This advancement is especial 
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Mapping for the Moon Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 08:00
Using data from several Earth-observing satellites, including ESA’s CryoSat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions, scientists have discovered that a huge flood beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet surged upwards with such force that it fractured the ice sheet, resulting in a vast quantity of meltwater bursting through the ice surface.
First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight in a failed attempt to reach orbit
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First Eris launch fails to reach orbit
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 04:09
The first flight of an orbital rocket developed by an Australian company ended seconds after liftoff July 29 when the rocket crashed near its launch pad.
Eris rocket debut signals new chapter for Australia's launch ambitions
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 02:28
Gilmour Space Technologies has conducted the inaugural test launch of Eris, Australia's first domestically developed orbital rocket, marking a pivotal moment in the nation's path toward sovereign space access and small satellite launch services.
The 23-meter-tall, 30-tonne Eris rocket utilized innovative hybrid propulsion to lift off from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, ac Slingshot unveils TALOS AI to simulate and support strategic space operations
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 02:28
Slingshot Aerospace has introduced TALOS, an autonomous AI agent engineered to replicate realistic satellite behavior in both training and simulation environments. Named the Thinking Agent for Logical Operations and Strategy, TALOS enables advanced mission planning and decision-making for space operations.
Developed using Slingshot's proprietary behavior cloning technology, TALOS mimics co SpaceX scrubs static fire test of Falcon 9 due to issue
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 02:28
SpaceX scrubbed a static fire test for a Falcon 9 rocket that will carry the Crew-11 team to the International Space Station due to an error.
SpaceX said in a statement that it was now targeting a window on Tuesday for the test after saying the scrub was due to an issue with the transporter erector cradle arm position indication at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA picks Firefly Aerospace for ambitious 2029 lunar rover and instrument delivery
Wednesday, 30 July 2025 02:28
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver two rovers and three instruments to the Moon's South Pole region by 2029. This mission marks the agency's first use of multiple rovers and diverse stationary instruments on a single delivery to study the composition and potential resources of permanently shadowed