Landing on the moon is an incredibly difficult feat—2025 has brought successes and shortfalls
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Week in images: 12-16 May 2025
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Week in images: 12-16 May 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Martian resource potential and challenges for future human activities
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A CubeSat to capture a supernova's UV spectrum
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The space race is being reshaped by geopolitics, offering opportunities for countries such as New Zealand
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Mars Express updates software, potentially extending spacecraft lifetime
Friday, 16 May 2025 10:19
Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.
Mars Express updates software, extends lifetime until 2034
Friday, 16 May 2025 10:19
Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.
Beyond launch: SpaceX’s expanding role in U.S. defense
Friday, 16 May 2025 10:00
SpaceX’s ascent from commercial launch provider to indispensable national security asset marks one of the most significant shifts in America’s defense industrial base in decades.
Virgin Galactic says production of new spaceplanes on track
Friday, 16 May 2025 07:27
Virgin Galactic says production of its new suborbital spaceplanes remains on track to allow commercial flights to begin in the middle of next year as it contemplates restarting ticket sales.
Earth from Space: Svalbard Archipelago
Friday, 16 May 2025 07:00
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. New Breakthrough in High-Precision Black Hole Scattering and Gravitational Waves
Friday, 16 May 2025 05:05
A landmark study published in Nature has significantly advanced the understanding of black hole and neutron star collisions, setting a new standard for precision in gravitational wave modeling. Led by Professor Jan Plefka at Humboldt University of Berlin and Dr Gustav Mogull of Queen Mary University of London, the research marks a major step forward in characterizing these extreme cosmic events. Twin Star Systems May Hold Key to Planet Formation Insights
Friday, 16 May 2025 05:05
Astronomers have developed a new approach to studying planet formation by focusing on "twin" binary star systems, where two stars born at the same time and place orbit each other. This fresh perspective, detailed in a Yale study, suggests that certain binary systems could offer unique insights into how planetary systems form, much like comparing human twins in biological research.
Malena R Venus May Host Active Tectonics Driven by Subsurface Plumes
Friday, 16 May 2025 05:05
New findings from NASA's Magellan mission suggest that Venus may experience ongoing tectonic activity, driven by hot, buoyant plumes of molten material rising from its mantle. Unlike Earth, which has large, mobile tectonic plates, Venus has a single, continuous crust that deforms under internal forces. Researchers focused on structures known as coronae, vast circular features believed to form wh Deploying a practical solution to space debris
Friday, 16 May 2025 05:05
At this moment, there are approximately 35,000 tracked human-generated objects in orbit around Earth. Of these, only about one-third are active payloads: science and communications satellites, research experiments, and other beneficial technology deployments. The rest are categorized as debris - defunct satellites, spent rocket bodies, and the detritus of hundreds of collisions, explosions, plan Nose cone glitch wipes Australian rocket launch
Friday, 16 May 2025 05:05
An Australian aerospace firm said Friday it has scrubbed a historic attempt to send a locally developed rocket into orbit, citing a glitch in the nose cone protecting its payload - a jar of Vegemite.
An electrical fault erroneously deployed the opening mechanism of the carbon-fibre nose cone during pre-flight testing, Gilmour Space Technologies said.
The nose cone is designed to shield