London UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Clues about the formation of Earth-like planets have emerged from the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, where astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA to probe its dusty heart. The combined observations revealed crystalline silicates, irregular dust grains, jets of iron and nickel, and even carbon-based molecules thought to be precursors of life. Lead researcher Dr Mikako Matsuura

Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2025
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from our star. The Sun is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System. It whips up electrons to nearly the speed of light and flings them out into space, flooding the Solar System

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
Rocky material buried deep within Mars has been traced to colossal impacts 4.5 billion years ago, according to new findings from NASA's retired InSight lander. The discovery points to lumps of mantle rock, some up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) wide, scattered beneath the surface. Scientists believe massive collisions melted large portions of early Mars into magma oceans while forcing fragmen

Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of dust and gas. The team, led by University of Arizona astronomer Laird Close and Richelle van Capelleveen, an astronomy graduate student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, discovered the unique exoplanet using the University of Arizona's

Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.

SAN FRANCISCO — South Korea’s SI Imaging Services announced a contract Sept. 2 to lease the capacity of Earth-observation satellite SpaceEye-T to a European customer under a contract with a value of more than 10 million euros ($11.7 million).

The service is rolling out initiatives, including a series of “AI Challenges” — hackathon-style competitions

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2025
Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a mini-campaign on aeolian bedforms. After wrapping up that work, three separate drives brought Perseverance further southeast to an outcrop named Soroya. Soroya was first picked out from orbital images as a target of interest because, as can be seen in the above image, it