Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
India's space agency, ISRO, has launched a suite of groundbreaking experiments aboard Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), in close partnership with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). These projects aim to deepen our understanding of life and technology in microgravity, laying vital groundwork for future long-duration missions and bolstering India's leadership in the global space sector. Among I

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
A collaborative effort between researchers from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has revealed new insights into one of biology's greatest leaps in complexity: the emergence of the eukaryotic cell. Published in PNAS, the study reframes eukaryogenesis as a phase transition in the evolutionary algorithm of life-a transition so profound it divides the biological record into two distinct computati

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
An international research collaboration led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified the most remote spiral galaxy candidate ever recorded. Existing just one billion years after the Big Bang, this immense galactic system already displays a well-developed structure including a central bulge of aged stars, an expansive star-forming disk, and pronounced spiral arms. The findings, based on

London, UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
Researchers from King's College London, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley have introduced a new approach to dark matter detection that they believe could yield results within 15 years. The proposed method involves a device they liken to a "cosmic car radio," capable of detecting hypothetical particles known as axions, widely considered among the most promising dark matter candidates. Dar

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
Preparations are nearly complete for the launch of China's upcoming crewed spaceflight, Shenzhou XX, which will ferry three astronauts to the Tiangong space station. The China Manned Space Agency confirmed that both the spacecraft and its Long March 2F rocket were rolled out to the launch tower at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Wednesday night. The agency reporte

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2025
A significant step forward has been achieved in the development of Blue Origin's Orbital Reef, a NASA-backed commercial space station concept, as the project recently passed an important human-in-the-loop testing phase. This test supports NASA's broader goal of advancing commercially operated destinations in low Earth orbit. The human-in-the-loop tests involved individuals or small teams c

The European Space Agency has joined the world space community in congratulating the African Space Agency on its official inauguration. The African Space Agency (AfSA) is the second regional space agency after ESA and has been in development since 2015, with the African Union Commission adopting an African space policy and strategy in 2016.

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Today at 10:15 CEST, ESA’s Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) began its journey to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.

ACES carries the most accurate clocks ever flown in space – PHARAO and the Space Hydrogen Maser – designed to keep time so precisely that they would lose just one second every 300 million years. Developed by the French space agency CNES and Safran Timing Technologies in Switzerland, these European-built clocks will work with a sophisticated time transfer time using microwave and laser links to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025
Voyager Technologies (Voyager) has marked a milestone in lunar technology advancement with the arrival of its proprietary Clear Dust-Repellent Coating (CDRC) on the Moon. Delivered aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, the coating touched down on March 2 following nearly a month in transit. "The number of surfaces on Earth that are coated by dust daily, affecting performance and vi

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will continue their involvement in the cutting-edge Mu3e experiment thanks to renewed financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), which has pledged an additional EUR 5.6 million in funding starting May 2025. This grant extends the Research Unit 5199 for another four years, allowing the collaboration to push further in its i