Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2025
SpaceX Sunday said it is stepping up its efforts to develop a simplified Human Landing System for NASA as it pursues a plan to return to the moon. SpaceX has been heavily involved in the HLS, which is based on the upper stage of the company's Starship rocket, which is still being developed. SpaceX released an in-depth, 2,000 word post Sunday detailing the progress it has made on

Sriharikota, India (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
India launched its heaviest ever communication satellite on Sunday, the latest step in the country's ambitious space programme. The CMS-03 satellite blasted off from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 5:26 pm (1156 GMT). "Our space sector continues to make us proud!" said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wants to send an Indian astronaut to the Moon by 2040. Wei

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Jiuquan, China (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
A crew of three Chinese astronauts, including the country's youngest-ever, docked early Saturday at the Tiangong space station, accompanied by four lab mice. The Shenzhou-21 spaceship docked at 3:22 am (1922 GMT Friday), China's state news agency Xinhua reported. That was about three-and-a-half hours after the spaceship departed from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new atomically layered material which experiences a five order of magnitude resistivity reduction when oxidized, a change that exceeds a hundred times the reduction observed in comparable non-layered materials. Investigating the structure, the team identified how the synergy between oxidation and structural modifications leads to ma

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) will launch the Mengzhou-1 crewed spaceship in 2026 following extensive upgrades to its predecessor, the Shenzhou model. Mengzhou features a modular design consisting of a return capsule and a service capsule and will operate as the primary link between Earth and the space station. The first flight of Mengzhou-1 will utilize the Long March-10A rocket fr

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 2, 2025
On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration", promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa's Artemis programme is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon and, eventually, send humans to Mars. That mission will last around three years and cover hundreds of millions of kilometres. The crew will face radiat

Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 2, 2025
The Space Travel Analog Research Team (START) successfully launched their payload as part of the 7th Annual Canada Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley, and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency's Timmins stratospheric balloon base. Left to right: START members Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley (Year 4 EngSci), and Emre Yilmaz

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
A Keio University-led research team, working with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has precisely measured the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) temperature at redshift z=0.89, corresponding to about 7 billion years ago, by analyzing archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data targeting the quasar PKS1830-211. The CMB is faint primordial radiat