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Voyager wins NASA ISS mission management role through 2030Los 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
Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava caveBerlin, 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
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 systemLos 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
Enceladus waves shape Saturn space weatherParis, 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 |
Amino acids in Bennu asteroid hint at icy radioactive originLos 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
The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High GroundNew 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
Firefly prepares Alpha Flight 7 stairway to seven missionLos 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
Abundant element alloy enables rare earth free cryogenic coolingTokyo, 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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Shenzhen district powers dense robot innovation ecosystemTokyo, 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
Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate storySydney, 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
Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gasLos 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
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructureParis, 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 |
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Landsat study maps boreal forest shift northLos 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
From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSeaLos 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
Global partners advance plans to harden submarine cable networksMadrid, 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
Ultra thin metasurface chip turns infrared into steerable visible beamsLos 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 |
OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social mediaWashington, 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
First Crewed Moon Flyby In 54 Years: Artemis IITempe 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
NASA confirms first flight to ISS since medical evacuationWashington, 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
Dark matter core may drive Milky Way centerLondon, 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 |
DLR plans new control center for future Moon and Mars missionsBerlin, 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
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from ConjunctionPasadena 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
NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars OrganicsGreenbelt 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
'The beacons were lit!' A system to detect and map merging black holesNew 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 |
Runaway black hole jet outshines legendary death starLos 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
Alfven waves drive stable electric fields that power aurorasTokyo, 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
Thunderstorm, not eclipse, drove tree signal spike in DolomitesParis, 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
Gilat books multimillion order for Sidewinder inflight ESA terminalsLondon, 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 |
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperationParis, 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
Launching the idea of data centers in spaceSan 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
Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon constructionParis, 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
BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customerLos 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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