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Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first timeParis, France (AFP) Feb 19, 2026 When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacular fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of scientists rushing towards their instruments. ... more  
Simple collapse may build cosmic snowman worldsNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 Astronomers have puzzled over why many icy worlds in the distant Kuiper Belt look like snowmen, with two round lobes joined together. New work from Michigan State University points to a surprisingly ... more  
Webb maps Uranus upper atmosphere in 3DLondon (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 A Northumbria University PhD student has led an international collaboration to construct the first three-dimensional view of Uranus upper atmosphere, showing how the planet's unusual magnetic field ... more  
Open source microscope enables low cost live cell imaging in zero gravityNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 As space agencies advance plans for human missions to the Moon and Mars, researchers are working to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells over time. A team led by Newcastle Univ ... more |
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Perseverance rover now self-locates precisely on MarsNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 NASA's Perseverance rover can now determine its exact position on Mars without relying on ground teams, using a new system called Mars Global Localization that compares navigation camera panoramas t ... more  
Record LOFAR Radio Sky Map Charts Millions Of Growing Black HolesLondon (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 An international team using the Low Frequency Array has released the most detailed low frequency radio map of the sky so far, revealing 13.7 million cosmic radio sources and delivering an unpreceden ... more  
NASA prepares Artemis II rocket for rollback after upper stage issueNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 Weather permitting, NASA plans to move the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II off Launch Pad 39B at the agency Kennedy Space Center in Florida as soon as Tuesday, Feb 24. ... more 
Prometheus starts work on new Indiana solid rocket motor campusNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 Prometheus Energetics LLC has begun construction of a new solid rocket motor manufacturing campus in Bloomfield, Indiana, marking a key step in the companys plan to expand domestic energetics produc ... more |
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NASA chief rules out March launch of Moon mission over technical issuesWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 21, 2026 NASA chief Jared Isaacman on Saturday ruled out a March launch for Artemis 2, the first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, citing technical issues. ... more 
Lithium trace in upper air linked to Falcon 9 rocket breakupNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 A plume of lithium pollution detected in the upper atmosphere in February 2025 has now been directly linked to the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket stage. Researchers report that this even ... more  
Stellar rotation drives deep mixing in ageing red giant starsNew York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 Advances in supercomputing have enabled astronomers to resolve a long-standing problem in stellar evolution: how changes in the chemical composition at the centers of red giant stars connect to the ... more  
India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI modelsNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 20, 2026 Fledgling Indian artificial intelligence companies showcased homegrown technologies this week at a major summit in New Delhi, underpinning big dreams of becoming a global AI power. ... more |
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NASA delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flightWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 19, 2026 NASA on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space. ... more  
TotalEnergies in high-stakes French trial over climate changeParis, France (AFP) Feb 20, 2026 TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began Thursday over accusations the French energy giant failed to properly consider environmental risks. ... more  
UN touts panel for 'human control' of AI as leaders weigh messageNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 20, 2026 A new UN panel on artificial intelligence aims to 'make human control a technical reality', the global body's chief said Friday as leaders at a New Delhi summit weighed their message on the future of the divisive technology. ... more 
New Wenchang lunar pad completes first Long March 10 testTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 At the future departure gate for Chinas crewed lunar journeys at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, personnel in blue uniforms have been carrying out post ... more |
 
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firmLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 Infleqtion, a provider of neutral atom based quantum computing and sensing systems, has completed its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp X and is now listed on the New York Stock Excha ... more  
Study questions assumptions about hidden alien technosignalsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 For more than sixty years, astronomers have conducted systematic searches for technosignatures, looking for artificial radio emissions, laser flashes, or excess heat that could reveal advanced civil ... more 
Researchers probe dark matter stars that resemble black holesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 In 2019, an unusual gravitational wave event labelled GW190521 rippled across the universe and into detectors on Earth, initially interpreted as the merger of two black holes each tens of times more ... more 
Dynamic terrain model boosts airborne gamma ray survey accuracyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 A research team led by Professor Hexi Wu and Dr Weicheng Li has developed a dynamic three dimensional terrain correction method that significantly improves the quantitative inversion accuracy of air ... more |
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Dusty early galaxies shed new light on how the universe built its first giantsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has identified a previously unseen population of dusty, star-forming galaxies located at the far reaches o ... more 
Microbes harvest metals from meteorites aboard space stationIthaca, NY (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces a ... more 
Brain learns faster from rare rewards than from repetitionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 More than a century after Pavlov trained dogs to link a bell with food, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco report that the brain may rely more on the timing of rewards th ... more 
ST Engineering iDirect and G&S SatCom align network and service management on IntuitionSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 ST Engineering iDirect has formed a strategic technology partnership with G and S SatCom to create a unified approach to satellite network and service management for operators and service providers. ... more |
Russian era ends at abandoned launchpad in South American jungleKourou (AFP) Feb 18, 2026 'Stop. Danger of death. Work in progress.' ... more  
UNSW Canberra team advances iodine propulsion for satellitesSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 Thousands of satellites are launched every year to support navigation, telecommunications, weather forecasting and emergency warning services, and most rely on onboard propulsion systems to manoeuvr ... more 
AAC Clyde Space adds Sedna satellites to boost maritime data servicesLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 AAC Clyde Space has started building two additional maritime data satellites, Sedna-3 and Sedna-4, to expand capacity in its established space-based maritime data services. ... more  
Texas AM partners with Aegis to orbit TAMU SPIRIT research hub on ISSLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 Texas A and M University has developed TAMU SPIRIT, a dedicated orbital research platform that will be deployed on the International Space Station in partnership with Aegis Aerospace. The platform w ... more |
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OpenAI hires creator of 'OpenClaw' AI agent toolWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 20, 2026 OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday. ... more 
Exolaunch to deploy five satellites on Spectrum mission from NorwayBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Exolaunch has completed integration of five customer satellites for launch on Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket, scheduled no earlier than March 19, 2026 from Andoya spaceport in Norway. The mission, ... more 
Australian hypersonic test flight window announcedLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Australian hypersonic flight developer Hypersonix Launch Systems has set the launch window for a landmark test of its DART AE scramjet-powered vehicle, moving the company a step closer to sustained ... more 
Pale Blue opens Tsukuba site to scale satellite propulsion productionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Pale Blue has begun operating its new Tsukuba Production Engineering Base to support mass production of satellite propulsion systems and shorten delivery lead times. The Tsukuba Production Eng ... more |
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