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December 18, 2025
MARSDAILY
Perseverance rover cleared for long distance Mars exploration



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
After nearly five years operating inside Mars Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has logged almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving while engineers certify that its mobility hardware and other subsystems can keep working for many more years. Built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Perseverance is following up the long-running Curiosity rover and was designed from the outset for extended missions on the Martian surface. JPL teams have been running par ... read more

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MOON DAILY
Origami style lunar rover wheel expands to climb steep caves
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
A joint team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory UEL has developed a transformable airless wheel designed to help small rovers a ... more
TECH SPACE
How to pick the right web testing framework for your project
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
The selection of a web testing framework may at times not be very easy. In fact, with so many tools that claim to speed up your testing process, it often comes down to which tool best fits your team's skill sets, project scope, and long-term testing objectives. ... more
SATURN DAILY
Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global ocean
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
Careful reanalysis of measurements gathered more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, likely lacks a vast liquid-water ocean beneath its ice, contrary to earlier interpreta ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Billionaire Trump nominee confirmed to lead NASA amid Moon race
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 17, 2025
The US Senate on Wednesday approved President Donald Trump's re-nomination of billionaire Jared Isaacman to head NASA, following months of backtracking and uncertainty over the space agency's future. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
London, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that current evidence about consciousness is too limited to determine whether artificial intelligence becomes conscious, and that a reliable test for mac ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Galaxy mergers light up fastest growing black holes
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
New Euclid satellite observations indicate that collisions between galaxies trigger the most powerful active galactic nuclei in the universe. The results strengthen the link between galaxy mergers a ... more
EXO WORLDS
Evolution study finds history and environment shifts can steer species in very different directions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
Every living organism must operate in environments that change over time, such as seasonal shifts between heat and cold or alternating years of drought and heavy rain. University of Vermont scientis ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket puts EU navigation satellites in orbit
Kourou (AFP) Dec 17, 2025
Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation system on Wednesday after the mission blasted off from French Guiana. ... more

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Sandia centrifuge campaign clears NASA VIPER rover for lunar launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, has cleared a major test campaign at Sandia National Laboratories that is intended to show the 1,000-pound lunar rover can withstand ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Thorium 229 nuclei driven by laser in opaque solid moves optical nuclear clock research forward
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
A team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has for the first time excited the atomic nuc ... more
SPACEMART
Southern Launch to Host Lux Aeterna Re-Entries South Australia
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
Southern Launch and Lux Aeterna have signed a contract to conduct orbital re-entries of Lux Aeterna's reusable satellite infrastructure to the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. The partnership ... more
TECH SPACE
Galactic Slots: Space-Themed Games with Out-of-This-World Bonus Features
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2025
Space-themed sweepstakes slots have become a standout genre for players who crave mystery, exploration, and cinematic visuals. These games create entire universes inside their reels - from glowing nebula fields to alien planets and interstellar soundscapes. ... more
TECH SPACE
NASA CubeSat puts dual micropropulsion systems through orbital trial
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
NASA and commercial partners are using a small satellite mission called DUPLEX (Dual Propulsion Experiment) to demonstrate new propulsion options for small spacecraft operating in low Earth orbit an ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Mission Space to fly second space weather payload with Rogue Space
Orlando, FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Mission Space will launch its second payload in orbit in partnership with Rogue Space, extending its commercial space weather measurement network. The companies announced the mission during the Spac ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
China launches carrier rocket to deploy experimental cargo ship and satellite
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
China launched a Kuaizhou 11 carrier rocket on Saturday morning to deploy a privately developed experimental cargo ship and a satellite into space. The rocket blasted off at 9:08 am at the Jiu ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Arab Satellite 813 launch deepens UAE China space partnership
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
A Kinetica 1 rocket has placed the Arab Satellite 813 into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, marking a new phase of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China in space acti ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
DiskSat flat satellite platform targets high power missions and very low Earth orbit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat concept introduces a flat, disk-shaped small satellite bus designed to provide more power, surface area, and payload volume than a traditional CubeSat while keepi ... more
TECH SPACE
What General Contractors Must Know About AI-Powered Estimating Software
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The construction industry, is long reliant on traditional methods, is undergoing a digital revolution. At the forefront of this shift is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the critical domain of cost estimation. ... more
MOON DAILY
JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more
MARSDAILY
HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hi ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and Moon
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operati ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiers
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researcher ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space Telescope
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-r ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
New MAGE model links solar storms to geospace response
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
NASA's Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, has released the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model, or MAGE, a supercomputer-based system that uses NASA mission data to show how different ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been ... more
EXO WORLDS
Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma ocean
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope around the ... more
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Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini data
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Sun boundary map tracks shifting Alfven surface over solar cycle
Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers have assembled the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun's atmosphere, tracing the boundary where the solar wind escapes the Sun's magnetic control. By comb ... more
ROBO SPACE
Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
There are some jobs human bodies just weren't meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task - and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the n ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
PUNCH mission delivers sweeping new view of solar activity
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images that place the ... more
TECH SPACE
The Tech Behind 2025's Online Casino Boom - What's Powering the Surge?
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
Online casinos look like flashy lobbies and fast spins, but the real reason 2025 is exploding for iGaming sits underneath the graphics. ... more
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