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October 10, 2025
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Europe needs reusable rockets to catch Musk's SpaceX: ESA chief



Paris (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Europe must quickly get its own reusable rocket launcher to catch up to billionaire Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher told AFP in an interview. While the US company has an overwhelming lead in the booming space launch industry, a series of setbacks, including Russia's withdrawal of its rockets, left Europe without an independent way to blast its missions into space. That year-long hiatus ended with the first launch of Europe's much-delayed Ariane 6 rock ... read more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
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
TECH SPACE
Beat the Odds: Smart Ways to Flip Your Luck in a Pusoy Card Game
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
We've all had that moment - staring at your cards and thinking, "Seriously? This is what I get?" In a Pusoy card game, bad luck can sneak up on anyone. But here's the twist: luck might start the game, but strategy, timing, and mindset determine how it ends. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Milky Way hosts giant wave of stars revealed by Gaia
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 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
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
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
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
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
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

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TIME AND SPACE
Giant double-ring radio galaxy found halfway across the universe
London UK (SPX) Oct 06, 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
TIME AND SPACE
More precise simulations unlock mysteries of the early universe
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla, working within an international collaboration, have developed advanced computer models that significantly improve the simulation of heavy ion collisions ... 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
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
MARSDAILY
Mars dust devils point to planet wide gale force winds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space Ocean and Space Nukes Forge Alliance to Develop Deep Space Power Systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Space Ocean Corp, a leader in orbital logistics and in-space resource delivery, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Space Nuclear Power Corporation (Space Nukes) to explore the integration of a ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


IRON AND ICE
Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025
International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Blue Origin sends six passengers to the edge of space on NS-36 suborbital flight
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 10, 2025
Blue Origin successfully launched six passengers on its NS-36 mission from West Texas Wednesday morning, marking the company's 15th crewed New Shepard flight and its 36th overall suborbital mission. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
DLR's ATHEAt Flight Experiment Achieves Hypersonic Milestone Over Norway
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully launched its ATHEAt flight experiment from Andoya, Norway, marking a major advance in reusable space transportation technology. The sounding rocket ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Raytheon and Anduril achieve breakthrough test in advanced rocket propulsion
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Anduril Industries have completed a successful static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munition ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab widens iQPS partnership with three more dedicated Electron launches starting 2026
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Rocket Lab has signed a new multi-launch agreement with Japan's Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), adding three dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Trump jeopardising US role as scientific leader: Nobel officials
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 2, 2025
Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
University of Mississippi Law School launches first fully online Air and Space Law master's degree
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-gr ... more
MARSDAILY
Computer models point to crew diversity as key to resilient Mars missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One, ... more
EXO WORLDS
Space agencies track rare 3I/ATLAS interstellar object near Mars
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 7, 2025
NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object as it travels past Mars on its way toward the Sun and through the solar system. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
General purpose AI classifies transient cosmic events from just a few examples
London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A study co-led by the University of Oxford, Google Cloud and Radboud University shows a general-purpose large language model, Google's Gemini, can identify real celestial changes and explain its rea ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Water signature detected in interstellar comet 3I ATLAS
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A fragment of ancient ice and dust from another star system has arrived in our cosmic neighborhood as 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever found. Using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observat ... more
GPS NEWS
Navigating through interference at Jammertest
Paris (ESA) Oct 07, 2025
is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption, natural or inten ... more
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SPACEWAR
Muon Space to Demonstrate Dual-Use Environmental Monitoring Constellation under $44.6M Space Force Agreement
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Muon Space has secured a $44.6 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command System Delta ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms Race
Budapest, Hungary (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
The launch of the US 'Golden Dome' missile defence initiative has already set in motion ripple effects across the globe. Rival nations are considering their own layered missile defence architectures ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Sharper than ever: New algorithm brings the stars into greater focus
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the ... more
MOON DAILY
With new analysis, Apollo samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveal exotic sulfur hidden in Moon's mantle
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced eq ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Chinese astronauts complete fourth spacewalk of Shenzhou XX mission
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Crew members aboard the Shenzhou XX spacecraft carried out their fourth extravehicular activity, completing critical tasks outside the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency reported. ... more
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