South Korea’s Innospace succeeds in test launch
South Korean rocket startup Innospace successfully launched a suborbital rocket from Brazil over the weekend, demonstrating a hybrid motor it plans to scale up into a small orbital launch vehicle.
Amateur astronomers needed: help classify stars with Gaia's data
ESA's Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes.
ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition
ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition
Welcome to the March Council edition of ESA Impact, an interactive showcase of the best images and videos since the last Council meeting
U.S. Air Force to test hardware at hypersonic speeds on Varda’s space capsules
The U.S. Air Force plans to use startup Varda Space Industries’ reentry capsules as hypersonic flight test platforms
NASA seeks student ideas for moon landing dust control
As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon's surface and back as part of Artemis, the agency is asking university students to investigate solutions to one particularly dusty aspect of landing spacecraft on the lunar surface.
NASA's new Human Lander Challenge invites college students to explore ways to manage or prevent the cloud of dust a spacecraft stirs up when using rocket engines to land on unprepared surfaces like the moon. This effect is called plume surface interaction and can increase risks caused by lunar dust on future human missions.
"The moon is covered with granular, rocky material called regolith, which can be lifted from the surface by rocket engines during landing and ascent.
Ultra-lightweight multifunctional space skin created to withstand the extreme conditions in space
A new nanobarrier coating could help protect ultra-lightweight carbon composite materials from extreme conditions in space, according to a study from the University of Surrey and Airbus Defence and Space.
Teens send experiments out of this world
From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship.
Terran Orbital further expands satellite production facilities
Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is planning another expansion of its factory in Southern California to accommodate an anticipated increase in government and commercial orders.
Frontier collects $10 million from AEI HorizonX
Frontier Aerospace raised $10 million in Series A funding from AEI HorizonX.
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RNA base in asteroid samples suggests origins of life on Earth
The black particles from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres away look unremarkable, like pieces of charcoal, but they hold a component of life itself.
Scientists have discovered the chemical compound uracil, one of the building blocks of RNA, in just 10 milligrammes of material from the asteroid Ryugu, according to new research published on Tuesday.
The finding lends weight to a lon 
