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February 10, 2026
SPACE TRAVEL
Launch to ISS pushed to Thursday over weather: NASA



Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
NASA on Monday delayed by one day the journey of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) over weather conditions. The US space agency is now targeting February 12 for the lift-off of Crew-12's mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a window opening at 5:38am local time (1038 GMT). "Mission teams completed a weather review on Monday and elected to waive off a Wednesday, Feb. 11, launch opportunity due to forecast weather conditions along the flight path of the Dragon space ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL
Voyager wins NASA ISS mission management role through 2030
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Voyager Technologies has secured a new Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity mission management contract from NASA's Johnson Space Center with a ceiling of 24.5 million dollars over four years to ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava cave
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Volcanic activity is a key force shaping the surfaces of rocky planets, and new work from Italy indicates that Venus hosts a giant empty lava tube beneath its surface. Using radar images from NASA's ... more
EXO WORLDS
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 system
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boun ... more
SATURN DAILY
Enceladus waves shape Saturn space weather
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, generates electromagnetic ripples that stretch more than half a million kilometers through the giant planet's space environment. A new analysis of data from NA ... more
IRON AND ICE
Amino acids in Bennu asteroid hint at icy radioactive origin
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Amino acids discovered in samples from the Bennu asteroid may have formed in an icy, radioactive environment in the early solar system, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The fi ... more
MOON DAILY
The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
New York NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2026
When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race tha ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Firefly prepares Alpha Flight 7 stairway to seven mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Firefly Aerospace is preparing its next Alpha rocket mission, Flight 7 Stairway to Seven, as a dedicated return-to-flight test from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. ... more
TECH SPACE
Abundant element alloy enables rare earth free cryogenic cooling
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of ab ... more

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ROBO SPACE
Shenzhen district powers dense robot innovation ecosystem
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Nanshan district in Shenzhen has built one of the densest hardware and robotics clusters on the planet, centered on a 10-kilometer stretch of Liuxian Avenue known locally as Robot Valley that packs ... more
EARLY EARTH
Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate story
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
New research from Australian and Chinese scientists is filling key gaps in the evolutionary story of some of the oldest fishes on Earth, including early lungfishes closely related to land vertebrate ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosp ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year. Launc ... more
ENVIROMENT.WIRE
DISASTER.WIRE
NUKE.WIRE
WOOD PILE
Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 c ... more
SOLAR DAILY
From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On? during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026 ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Global partners advance plans to harden submarine cable networks
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Governments, industry representatives and international organizations from over 70 countries have agreed on new guidance to strengthen the resilience of submarine telecommunications cables at the In ... more
CHIP TECH
Ultra thin metasurface chip turns infrared into steerable visible beams
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The development of compact devices that can precisely control light is central to future systems for sensing, communications and computing. Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the ... more
ROBO SPACE
OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social media
Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 2, 2026
Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity experts, and now thrives on chatbot-only social media - all in just a few weeks. ... more
MOON DAILY
First Crewed Moon Flyby In 54 Years: Artemis II
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Almost as tall as a football field, NASAs Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly - just under 1 mile per hour - out to the Artemis II launchpad, its temporary home at the Kenne ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA confirms first flight to ISS since medical evacuation
Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 6, 2026
Four astronauts will blast off to re-staff the International Space Station (ISS) next week, NASA said Friday, after an emergency medical evacuation of the previous crew. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Dark matter core may drive Milky Way center
London, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on nearby stars and g ... more
MOON DAILY
DLR plans new control center for future Moon and Mars missions
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
For upcoming human and robotic missions to the Moon and Mars, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish a new Human Exploration Control Center (HECC) at its site in Oberpfaffenhofen near Muni ... more
MARSDAILY
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Mars has emerged from its holiday behind the Sun, and we here on Earth have been able to reconnect with Curiosity and get back to work on Mars. Our first planning day last Friday gave Curiosity a fu ... more
MARSDAILY
NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holes
New Haven CT (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging blac ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death star
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
A supermassive black hole that shredded a nearby star is blasting out a jet of energy that has kept brightening for four years, in one of the most powerful events ever recorded in the universe. ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Alfven waves drive stable electric fields that power auroras
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The shimmering curtains of the aurora form when energetic electrons plunge into Earths upper atmosphere and collide with atoms and molecules, releasing light across the polar skies. For decades, sci ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Thunderstorm, not eclipse, drove tree signal spike in Dolomites
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Around 14 hours before a partial solar eclipse crossed the Dolomites in northern Italy, a cluster of spruce trees showed a sharp, synchronized rise in electrical activity. A new opinion paper argues ... more
TECH SPACE
Gilat books multimillion order for Sidewinder inflight ESA terminals
London, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Gilat Satellite Networks has secured a multimillion order from a major global avionics company for its Sidewinder electronically steered antenna inflight connectivity terminals designed by Gilat Ste ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation
Paris, France (AFP) Feb 5, 2026
When the International Space Station comes back to Earth in 2030, it will mark the end of three decades of peaceful international cooperation - and an era when space became central to our daily lives. ... more
TECH SPACE
Launching the idea of data centers in space
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026
Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon construction
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 05, 2026
Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by ... more
SPACEMART
BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 05, 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. T ... more
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