Oxford MS (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is a key ingredient to life. A new study could point to where it has been hiding. An international team of researchers including Ryan Fortenberry, an astrochemist at the University of Mississippi; Ralf Kaiser, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Columbia MO (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they identified 300 objects that were brighter than they should be. "These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe, meaning they could be very early galaxies," said

London, UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
A multinational team led by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), with contributions from the Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) and the University of Oxford, has examined 160 distant galaxies using South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope. The study provides the first comparative measurements of their radio spectra, magnetic field intensities, and s

Blue Origin is offering a version of Blue Ring as a Mars communications orbiter as it and other companies seek ways to provide commercial services for NASA at Mars.

Eumetsat takes control of MetOp-SG-A1

Following launch and early operations, Eumetsat takes over the reins and moves into the commissioning phase

The Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory has a new affiliation with the U.S.

I recently attended the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, an event that has ballooned from a niche government-industry gathering into a global spectacle that drew over 15,000 attendees in […]