Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
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Forest satellite’s big antenna opens up
Wednesday, 07 May 2025 07:15
Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path to delivering unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their vital role in Earth’s carbon cycle – the satellite’s 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.
Research Fellows in space science 2025
Wednesday, 07 May 2025 07:00
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ESA has selected 10 new Fellows to pursue their own independent research in space science, starting in 2025.
The Research Fellowships in space science represent one of the highlights of the ESA Science programme. Early career postdoctoral scientists are offered the unique opportunity to carry out advanced research related to the space science areas covered by ESA Science missions at one of three ESA establishments (ESAC, ESTEC, or STScI) for a period of up to three years.
The 2025 Research Fellows in space science are Jo Ann Egger, Adam J. Finley, Zsofi Igo, Antonio La Marca, Benjamin Man, Cyril Mergny, Ioanna
ESA and PLAYMOBIL join forces to inspire the next generation of space explorers
Wednesday, 07 May 2025 05:15
As the European Space Agency (ESA) ramps up Europe’s ambition in space exploration, it is equally committed to sparking curiosity among young minds. What better way to inspire future explorers than with a fully equipped lunar rover – a creation born from our exciting new partnership with PLAYMOBIL?
NASA progresses toward crewed moon mission with spacecraft and rocket milestones
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SpaceX aims for launch after sunset tonight from Cape Canaveral
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Rocket Lab sets May launch for latest iQPS satellite mission
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has announced a mid-May launch window for its upcoming mission supporting multi-launch client Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS).
The mission, titled "The Sea God Sees," is set to lift off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand starting May 17, 2025. It will carry a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, QPS-SAR-10, also known as "WADATSUMI-I," India's woman fighter pilot trailblazer eyes space
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot.
"This is where my adventure began," Shivangi Singh, 29, told AFP at the Air Force Museum in New Delhi, recalling her first visit as a child when she "gawked" and "immediately knew that I wanted to become a pilot".
W Searching for Spherules to Sample
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
Over the past few weeks, Perseverance has been investigating some curious spherules peppered across the "Witch Hazel Hill" region along the rim of Jezero crater. A striking cluster of the small bubble-shaped stones were first spotted by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Sol 1442 (March 11, 2025) at "Broom Point," in a rock named "St. Pauls Bay." A few sols later, a similar assemblage was discovered by NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond instead of relying only on supplies shipped from Earth.
NASA Ke MIT physicists snap the first images of "free-range" atoms
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the "free-range" particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed. Their findings, appearing in the journal Physical Review Letters, will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space.
The images were taken us New models challenge the black hole singularity concept
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
Physicists continue to grapple with the elusive singularities believed to reside at the cores of black holes, a concept long regarded as signaling the breakdown of known physical laws. Stefano Liberati, director of IFPU, invokes the Latin phrase "Hic sunt leones" to describe this uncharted territory. The phrase historically marked unexplored regions on maps-an apt metaphor for the unknown physic NASA's Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
Though they don't orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, that have been observed in our galaxy. These small, gassy planets are shrouded in mystery...and often, a lot of haze. Now, by observing exoplanet TOI-421 b, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists understand sub-Neptunes in a way that was not possible pr NAL unveils SHOUT tracker upgrades powered by Iridium Enhanced SBD service
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
NAL Research has integrated Iridium's Enhanced Short Burst Data (ESBD) technology into its SHOUT series of tracking devices, reinforcing its role in providing advanced wireless and assured position, navigation, and timing (APNT) solutions. This enhancement is designed to support secure and resilient communications for the U.S. Department of Defense and other authorized government partners. Unified theory of gravity may edge physics closer to ultimate breakthrough
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 09:12
At long last, physicists may be nearing a breakthrough that unifies gravity with electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. For decades, the challenge has been reconciling quantum field theory with Einstein's general relativity-a task that generations of scientists have pursued without success.
Now, researchers at Aalto University have proposed a new quantum theory of gravity