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October 14, 2025
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on successful test flight



South Padre Island, United States (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soared through Texas's golden-hour skies Monday before splashing down successfully, as the US company vies to silence critics who doubt Elon Musk's startup can deliver NASA's lunar projects on time. In its 11th test voyage, the enormous rocket took off Monday from Space X's south Texas launch facilities just after 6:25pm local time (2325 GMT), according to a live video feed which also featured resounding applause from engineering teams. Its rocket booster known w ... read more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers find mystery dark object in distant universe
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe. Finding more such objects and understanding their nature could rule out some th ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Myanmar scam centres booming despite crackdown, using Musk's Starlink
Mae Sot/Paris, Thailand (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
Scam centres in Myanmar blamed for swindling billions from victims across the world are expanding fast just months after a crackdown that was supposed to eradicate them, an AFP investigation has found. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Completed Plato spacecraft construction enters final test campaign
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final ... more
EARLY EARTH
Nickel and urea hints reshape story of early Earth oxygen rise
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the environment and setting the stage for complex life. This event, known as the ... more
SPACEMART
Momentus Expands NASA Partnership with Dual Contracts for In-Space Manufacturing and Propulsion Demonstrations
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), the U.S. commercial space company specializing in in-space transportation and orbital services, has secured two new NASA contracts totaling $7.6 million to advance spac ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Europe cannot let US, China be 'technological leaders': Nobel laureate Aghion
Stockholm Oct 13, 2025
One of the winners of this year's Nobel economics prize, France's Philippe Aghion, on Monday warned Europe that it must not let the United States and China dominate technological innovation. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Compact fusion boom propels PLD REBCO tape production while spotlighting cost and stability hurdles
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
The rapid rise of compact fusion has ignited demand for high temperature superconducting tapes, creating a major opening for the HTS industry. Manufacturers are scaling pulsed laser deposition REBCO ... more
UAV NEWS
Breakthrough in UAV swarm intelligence as SRI redefines topology mapping
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Unmanned swarm systems are revolutionizing fields from disaster relief to military reconnaissance, yet two obstacles have long hindered their reliability: precise trajectory prediction and transpare ... more

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SPACEMART
Vantor and Lanteris mark new era for space intelligence and defense technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems - formerly Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems, respectively - have each launched bold new identities, marking the completion of a historic transformation fo ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Rice scientists use electrons to pattern light sources and wiring directly onto crystals
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into an ultrathin crystal. The approach produced traces narrower than the width ... more
ROBO SPACE
Death of 'sweet king': AI chatbots linked to teen tragedy
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
A chatbot from one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI startups called a 14-year-old "sweet king" and pleaded with him to "come home" in passionate exchanges that would be the teen's last communications before he took his own life. ... more
TECH SPACE
Faraday Factory and Zenno join forces to boost superconducting magnets for orbital systems
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Faraday Factory Japan LLC, a global leader in superconducting tape manufacturing, has partnered with New Zealand-based Zenno Astronautics to advance the development of next-generation high-temperatu ... more
TECH SPACE
Google to invest $15 bn in India, build largest AI hub outside US
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
Google said Tuesday it will invest $15 billion in India over the next five years, as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country. ... more
TECH SPACE
Light-driven control of topological structures unlocks new path for ultrafast memory
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
In a breakthrough uniting photonics and condensed matter physics, researchers have developed a new optical technique to precisely control topological solitons - including skyrmions and antiskyrmions ... more
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TECH SPACE
Light pulses enable next-generation stable data storage
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have discovered a new way to store information using light rather than electricity or magnetism. Their approac ... more
TECH SPACE
Light triggers formation of high-mobility electron gas in oxide interfaces
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
A CNRS-led international team has uncovered a way to generate an electron gas - typically found in LED screens - simply by shining light on a layered oxide material. When the illumination ceases, th ... more
TECH SPACE
New theory transforms understanding of nanoscale heat transport
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Heat, once thought to flow smoothly and predictably through materials, behaves far more intricately when observed at the nanoscale. A team from Auburn University and the U.S. Department of Energy's ... more
MARSDAILY
Martian craters record repeated ice ages as planetary ice stores dwindle
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Scientists have long debated how much water Mars once held and how it faded to today's arid world. A new study in Geology mines "ice archives" preserved inside impact craters to reconstruct a climat ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid rotation patterns reveal new insights into their interiors
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Whether an asteroid spins smoothly or tumbles chaotically has now been linked to its history of collisions, according to new findings from ESA's Gaia mission presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meet ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Giant double-ring radio galaxy found halfway across the unhgerse
London UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and powerful odd radio circle (ORC) ever observed, revealing a rare cosmic structure nearly halfway across the universe. The newly identified source, RAD ... more
EXO WORLDS
Spirals in young star disk reveal planet formation process
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured the motion of spiral structures in the disk of dust and gas surrounding the young star IM Lup, offering new ev ... more
EXO WORLDS
Baby' Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps ... more
EXO WORLDS
Rogue planet devours matter at record pace of six billion tonnes a second
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have witnessed an extraordinary growth spurt in a free-floating planet, observing it accumulate mass at a rate ... more
TIME AND SPACE
First image captures two black holes in mutual orbit at quasar OJ287
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
For the first time, astronomers have produced a radio image revealing two black holes orbiting each other, confirming long-suspected black hole pairs. The system sits at the core of quasar OJ287, wh ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Milky Way hosts giant wave of stars revealed by Gaia
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
Scientists using the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope have discovered a vast stellar wave rippling across the Milky Way's disc, extending tens of thousands of light-years from the Sun. The fin ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers detect unseen dark mass shaping distant galaxy light
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Astronomers have identified a mysterious low-mass dark object nearly 10 billion light years away by tracing its faint gravitational distortion of light from a more distant galaxy. The object, weighi ... more
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EARLY EARTH
USF study: Ancient plankton hint at steadier future for ocean life
St.Petersburg, FL (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
A team of scientists has uncovered a rare isotope in microscopic fossils, offering fresh evidence that ocean ecosystems may be more resilient than once feared. In a new study co-led by Patrick ... more
ENERGY TECH
Physics informed AI forecasts safer tokamak rampdowns for future fusion plants
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
MIT researchers have unveiled a prediction method that blends a physics-based plasma model with machine learning to manage tokamak rampdowns more safely and reliably. The approach targets disruption ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Small Satellite Contracted to Probe Climate Effects of Space Radiation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2025
The University of Alberta has contracted SFL Missions Inc. to develop the RADICALS small satellite, a mission designed to study how energetic particles from space interact with Earth's atmosphere an ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar mega basin signals radioactive ejecta and reshapes Moon origin story
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
New analyses of the South Pole-Aitken basin recast the formation of the Moon's largest impact crater and what it reveals about lunar origins. Led by University of Arizona planetary scientist Jeffrey ... more
EXO WORLDS
Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A University of Houston team reports that a rare bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly clean rooms can evade detection by entering dormancy, effectively "playing dead" in a nutrient-poor envir ... more
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