Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Species that are not native to an area can displace the species that already live there, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Nature has identified invasive alien organisms as one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Liverpool have now produced a systematic scan of which alien vascular plants could

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
The countdown for NASA's Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is underway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a key test before the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Artemis campaign to return astronauts to the Moon. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, wil

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first AI planned drives ever carried out on another planet, using a vision capable generative AI system to map out safe routes across the rim of Jezero Crater without human route planners intervening in the usual way. The demonstration, run on Dec 8 and Dec 10, 2025, used generative AI to create waypoints for the six wheeled rover, taking ov

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
Near Earth asteroids are small bodies whose orbits cross or come close to Earth, making them key tracers of Solar System formation and evolution as well as potential impact hazards for our planet. An international team led by researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a one year observing campaign to better classify these objects. From Octobe

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured multiple Gen 3 Assured services contracts totaling seven figures with a new international defense customer following an early access period for the capability. The company reports that the expansion agreements signal a rapid shift by the customer toward advanced space-based dynamic monitoring as they scale to support time-sensitive tactical intelligence, surv

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2026
Your favorite space sim lies to you every single time you hit the throttle. Developers prioritize "fun" over "physics" because actual interstellar combat involves math that would melt your brain and your GPU simultaneously

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars form in pairs, planets that orbit both stars in a pair are rare. Of the more than 6,000 extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, confirmed to date - most of them found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey S

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2026
A sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean has provided a research team led by geochemist Dr Torben Struve from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, with evidence of an unexpected climate feedback in Antarctica. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, links changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to variations in marine algae growth over several glacial cycles, but in a wa