Outpost awarded contract to develop reentry shield tech for space-based cargo delivery
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025
Outpost Technologies Corporation (Outpost Space), a leader in reusable space logistics platforms, has secured a $1.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force under the SPACEWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiative. The award, granted through the ICED-T (Innovative Cargo Exoatmospheric Delivery Technology) topic, supports Outpost's Shielding Technology for Exoatmospheric Experi
Outpost Technologies Corporation (Outpost Space), a leader in reusable space logistics platforms, has secured a $1.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force under the SPACEWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiative. The award, granted through the ICED-T (Innovative Cargo Exoatmospheric Delivery Technology) topic, supports Outpost's Shielding Technology for Exoatmospheric Experi Scientists uncover why carbon-rich space rocks rarely reach Earth
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 15, 2025
A comprehensive international study may finally explain why carbon-rich meteorites, which are thought to contain key ingredients for life, are so rarely found on Earth despite being common in space.
Scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory, and several other institutions
A comprehensive international study may finally explain why carbon-rich meteorites, which are thought to contain key ingredients for life, are so rarely found on Earth despite being common in space.
Scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory, and several other institutions Momentus inks five-year manufacturing deal with Velo3D
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:45
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. space infrastructure company, has signed a five-year master services agreement with additive manufacturing leader Velo3D, Inc. (OTC: VLDX). This partnership marks a strategic effort to accelerate the production of space hardware using cutting-edge 3D printing technology.
The agreement, structured as an all-stock transaction and disclosed in a recent 8-K
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. space infrastructure company, has signed a five-year master services agreement with additive manufacturing leader Velo3D, Inc. (OTC: VLDX). This partnership marks a strategic effort to accelerate the production of space hardware using cutting-edge 3D printing technology.
The agreement, structured as an all-stock transaction and disclosed in a recent 8-K Bipartisan caucus criticizes proposed NASA science budget cuts
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 09:33
The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the first Republican opposition in Congress to the plans.
Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025
On board Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft, which made a moon landing on March 6, were cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called "AstroAnt." Also on that craft were the words and voices of people from around the world speaking in dozens of languages. These were etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Depar
On board Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft, which made a moon landing on March 6, were cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called "AstroAnt." Also on that craft were the words and voices of people from around the world speaking in dozens of languages. These were etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Depar Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2025
Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it triggers a chemical reaction that could make water molecules.
Now, in the most realistic lab simulation of this process yet, NASA-led researchers have confirmed this pre
Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it triggers a chemical reaction that could make water molecules.
Now, in the most realistic lab simulation of this process yet, NASA-led researchers have confirmed this pre SwRI-led Lucy probe to pass main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for a pivotal encounter on April 20, 2025, as it targets asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, a three-mile-wide object located in the main asteroid belt. This flyby, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), will serve as a rehearsal ahead of Lucy's primary mission: investigating the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.
These ancient Trojan ast
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for a pivotal encounter on April 20, 2025, as it targets asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, a three-mile-wide object located in the main asteroid belt. This flyby, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), will serve as a rehearsal ahead of Lucy's primary mission: investigating the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.
These ancient Trojan ast Molten core may hold key to Mars' uneven magnetic past
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) offers a compelling explanation for Mars' puzzling magnetic field distribution, revealing that the planet's ancient magnetism may have originated from a hemispheric field generated by a molten core.
Mars once boasted a global magnetic field strong enough to protect its atmosphere, much like Earth's. Today, that shie
A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) offers a compelling explanation for Mars' puzzling magnetic field distribution, revealing that the planet's ancient magnetism may have originated from a hemispheric field generated by a molten core.
Mars once boasted a global magnetic field strong enough to protect its atmosphere, much like Earth's. Today, that shie On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs," raining down like hailstones during a thunderstorm, illuminated by intense flashes of lightning.
Planetary scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exi
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs," raining down like hailstones during a thunderstorm, illuminated by intense flashes of lightning.
Planetary scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exi AI revolutionizes gravitational wave detector design
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Gravitational waves, the faint tremors in spacetime triggered by cataclysmic cosmic phenomena like black hole collisions and stellar explosions, have opened a groundbreaking observational frontier in astrophysics. But detecting these elusive signals demands precision instruments whose design complexity has long challenged scientists. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science o
Gravitational waves, the faint tremors in spacetime triggered by cataclysmic cosmic phenomena like black hole collisions and stellar explosions, have opened a groundbreaking observational frontier in astrophysics. But detecting these elusive signals demands precision instruments whose design complexity has long challenged scientists. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science o Scientists replicate cosmic light traps using new optical device
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the light-trapping properties of black holes and the theoretical expulsion behavior of white holes, offering an innovative analog to these cosmic entities.
The team based their design on the concept of coherent perfect absorption, enabling the device to either fully absorb or repel ligh
Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the light-trapping properties of black holes and the theoretical expulsion behavior of white holes, offering an innovative analog to these cosmic entities.
The team based their design on the concept of coherent perfect absorption, enabling the device to either fully absorb or repel ligh SwRI study reveals exotic chemistry of superheated sub-Neptune TOI-270 dwar
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
A new study led by the Southwest Research Institute offers groundbreaking insights into TOI-270 d, an exoplanet orbiting 73 light years from Earth. The planet, falling between Earth and Neptune in size, may be a rocky super-Earth cloaked in a dense, scorching atmosphere. Researchers believe TOI-270 d could serve as a key reference point for understanding sub-Neptune exoplanets-a planetary class
A new study led by the Southwest Research Institute offers groundbreaking insights into TOI-270 d, an exoplanet orbiting 73 light years from Earth. The planet, falling between Earth and Neptune in size, may be a rocky super-Earth cloaked in a dense, scorching atmosphere. Researchers believe TOI-270 d could serve as a key reference point for understanding sub-Neptune exoplanets-a planetary class SwRI analysis reveals exotic nature of TOI-270 d atmosphere
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has unveiled a detailed geochemical model of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet roughly midway in size between Earth and Neptune, suggesting it may be a massive rocky world blanketed by an extremely hot and dense atmosphere. Located just 73 light years away, TOI-270 d may serve as a crucial reference point for understanding the vast class of sub-Neptun
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has unveiled a detailed geochemical model of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet roughly midway in size between Earth and Neptune, suggesting it may be a massive rocky world blanketed by an extremely hot and dense atmosphere. Located just 73 light years away, TOI-270 d may serve as a crucial reference point for understanding the vast class of sub-Neptun Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter - stars, galaxies and gas - in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter - half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter - cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.
New measurements, howe
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter - stars, galaxies and gas - in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter - half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter - cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.
New measurements, howe New evidence suggesting magnetar origin of GRBs
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 05:12
Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 16, 2025
How gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful and spectacular explosions known in the universe since the Big Bang, fuel their high-energy radiations? What kind of physical reactions can trigger and sustain such violent, energetic outflow? This has captivated astronomers. Over the past decades, thousands of GRBs have been observed; however, the origin and the product of the burst - the central c
How gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful and spectacular explosions known in the universe since the Big Bang, fuel their high-energy radiations? What kind of physical reactions can trigger and sustain such violent, energetic outflow? This has captivated astronomers. Over the past decades, thousands of GRBs have been observed; however, the origin and the product of the burst - the central c