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October 13, 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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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
MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the precision of atomic clocks. An atomic clock keeps time by relying on ... 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

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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
PHYSICS NEWS
New tabletop detector to capture gravitational waves in the milli-Hz range
London, UK (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking method to detect gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, unlocking a new observational window into the universe. This advance could allow re ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
GEO-MEASURE brings survey-grade precision to everyone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
GEO-MEASURE, the new handheld GNSS rover from GEODNET, is redefining field surveying by combining professional-grade accuracy with consumer-level simplicity and affordability. The compact device int ... more
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MARSDAILY
Two decades of Mars images reveal fast moving dust devils and stronger winds
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Combing 20 years of Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imagery, ESA-led researchers cataloged 1,039 dust devils to show how surface winds loft and transport dust across Mars. Published in Sc ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Europe's new METimage instrument delivers first ultra-detailed views of Earth
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
EUMETSAT has unveiled the first Earth imagery from the METimage instrument aboard its newly launched Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite, offering an early look at the mission's extrao ... more
MARSDAILY
Martian skies reveal intricate atmospheric layers in new orbiter images
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured the most detailed view yet of Mars's atmosphere, showing a fine layering of dust and ice particles that resembles a cosmic mille-feuille. The images reve ... more
MOON DAILY
Far side lunar mantle found cooler than near side in Chang'e 6 sample study
London UK (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
The lunar far side may have a colder interior than the near side, according to a new analysis of rock samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission. A study led by researchers from UCL and Peking U ... more
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Most powerful cosmic radio ring yet found by citizen scientists
London, UK (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
The most distant and powerful odd radio circle (ORC) ever detected has been discovered by astronomers working with citizen scientists. ORCs are giant, faint rings of radio emission surrounding ... more
MOON DAILY
QUT to advance navigation systems for Australia lunar rover
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
QUT's Centre for Robotics will play a central role in keeping Australia's first lunar rover, known as Roo-ver, safely on course during its mission to the Moon. Professor Michael Milford, Direc ... more
EXO WORLDS
Young rogue planet displays record-breaking 'growth spurt'
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar and Earth Construction Robot Charlotte to Debut in Sydney
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology will present Charlotte, the first robot capable of constructing buildings on both Earth and the Moon, at the 76th International Astronautical Congress in Syd ... more
SPACEMART
AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Partner to Deliver Space-Based Cellular Service Across the U.S.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by standard smartphones, has signed a definitive commercial a ... more
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