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July 27, 2025
MARSDAILY
Mars glaciers are purer and more uniform than previously thought



Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers, and their contents were once thought to be mostly rock enveloped in some ice. Work over the last 20 years has demonstrated that at least some of these glaciers are mostly pure ice with only a thin cover of rock and dust, but according to a new paper published in Icarus, glaciers all over the planet actually contai ... read more

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MARSDAILY
Curiosity Rovers Boxwork Campaign Reaches New Heights on Mount Sharp
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Curiosity has made significant progress in its ongoing exploration of the intricate boxwork terrain along the slopes of Mount Sharp. The past several sols have brought the rover from the base of a s ... more
MARSDAILY
Skyfall Mars helicopter fleet to scout future astronaut landing sites
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Skyfall, a forward-looking Mars helicopter concept developed by AeroVironment (AV) in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), aims to support future human exploration of the Red P ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar habitat module project advances under Thales Alenia Space and ASI agreement
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to carry out the preliminary design and technology development for the Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH) module, set to bec ... more
MARSDAILY
China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
Beijing (XNA) Jul 25, 2025
China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of returning no less than 500 grams of Martian samples to Earth by around 2031, according to t ... more
MOON DAILY
Sidus Space debuts LunarLizzie 800kg lunar platform built for real time AI terrain intelligence
Merritt Island FL (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Sidus Space has introduced LunarLizzie, its most advanced 800kg-class spacecraft engineered specifically for lunar and cislunar missions. Equipped with onboard AI, LiDAR, and hyperspectral imaging, ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon erosion by solar wind far less than expected finds lunar rock study
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
The Moon's fragile exosphere, a sparse envelope of gas surrounding the lunar body, is mainly generated by interactions between the Moon's surface and external forces. Until now, scientists believed ... more
OUTER PLANETS
China eyes Neptune for groundbreaking ice giant mission
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
China is preparing to push deeper into the solar system with an ambitious new phase in its deep space exploration program, including a Mars sample-return mission and a journey to Jupiter. Now, Chine ... more
EXO WORLDS
Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar space
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has detected 17 complex organic molecules in the protop ... more

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SOLAR SCIENCE
BAE Systems completes delivery of NOAA and NASA space weather satellites for fall launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
BAE Systems has completed the delivery of two advanced satellites from its Boulder, Colorado facility to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft-NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observator ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Millennium Space Systems initiates on-orbit operations for NASA space weather study
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, has started the on-orbit commissioning phase for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) following their s ... more
SPACEMART
Sidus Space unveils plan to raise capital through public stock offering
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Sidus Space, a provider of space and defense technologies, announced plans to conduct a best-efforts public offering of its Class A common stock or pre-funded warrants. The company will sell all sha ... more
SPACEMART
AST SpaceMobile launches $500 million convertible note offering with share repurchase initiative
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
AST SpaceMobile has announced a $500 million private offering of convertible senior notes due 2032, with an effective conversion price of $72.07 per share and capped at $120.12 per share. These 2.37 ... more
ROBO SPACE
Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel - as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 - Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a ser ... more
SPACEMART
Cascade raises 59M to develop full stack satellite communications platform
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Cascade Space has secured $5.9 million in seed funding to advance its development of a comprehensive satellite communication platform. The round saw investment from Nova Threshold, Undeterred Capita ... more
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SPACEMART
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites days after service outage
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 26, 2025
SpaceX early Saturday launched another 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Florida, days after a short service outage hit the space-based internet provider. ... more
TECH SPACE
China issues new rules to elevate quality control in private space sector
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
China has introduced new regulations to tighten quality oversight of its growing commercial space industry. The directive, issued Monday by the China National Space Administration (CNSA), outlines c ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Vega C launch deploys Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Vega C has completed its VV27 mission, successfully delivering the CO3D and MicroCarb satellites into their respective orbits. Liftoff occurred at 23:03 local time on July 25 (04:03 CEST on July 26) ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Interference to astronomy the unintended consequence of faster internet
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
Curtin University researchers have undertaken the world's biggest survey of low frequency satellite radio emissions, finding Starlink satellites are significantly interfering with radio astronomy ob ... more
SPACEWAR
Russian rocket puts Iran satellite into space: Iran media
Tehran (AFP) July 25, 2025
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments. ... more
TECH SPACE
How to Master Terraria: Essential Tips from a Pro Player
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2025
Playing Terraria on Master Mode can be brutal. A single hit from a slime could kill you if you're not wearing armor. The game gets much harder at higher difficulty levels, and you'll need solid preparation and strategy. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Viasat unveils IoT Nano service for global low-power connectivity
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
Viasat has introduced IoT Nano, a new satellite-powered connectivity service aimed at providing cost-effective, low-power Internet of Things (IoT) messaging in remote and hard-to-reach areas worldwi ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Space Force general to oversee U.S. 'Golden Dome' missile shield
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 22, 2025
The U.S. Senate has approved Gen. Mike Guetlein to oversee President Donald Trump's national missile defense system, known as the Golden Dome. ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
ESA launches Vigil to track solar threats from deep space vantage
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
Vigil, the European Space Agency's upcoming space weather mission, will be the first satellite to maintain a continuous presence at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 5 (L5), providing an unprecedented si ... more
TECH SPACE
York to Acquire Operations to Boost Ground Connectivity and Mission Delivery
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
York Space Systems announced that its parent company has signed an agreement to acquire ATLAS Space Operations, a U.S.-based leader in Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) for satellite communicatio ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Rare Trans Neptunian Object Reveals Unexpected Orbital Dance with Neptune
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
A rare celestial body drifting far beyond Neptune, designated 2020 VN40, has been identified by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian as the first confirmed object t ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon erosion by solar wind far weaker than previously believed
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
The surface of the Moon is constantly exposed to the solar wind-a stream of charged particles from the Sun that can dislodge atoms from the lunar surface and contribute to its thin exosphere. Howeve ... more
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Young magmas on the came from much shallower depths
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
New research on the rocks collected by China's Chang'e 5 mission is rewriting our understanding of how the moon cooled. Stephen Elardo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Geological Sciences with the ... more
OUTER PLANETS
JunoCam revived by onboard heat treatment just in time for Io flyby
Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
NASA's Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter, narrowly salvaged its onboard JunoCam imager through a remote thermal repair maneuver executed in December 2023. The move, initiated from over 370 ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
CTAO telescope uncovers fresh evidence for layered jet structures in historic gamma ray burst
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
The CTAO LST Collaboration has unveiled critical insights into gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets following detailed analysis of GRB 221009A-the most luminous GRB ever observed. The results, published in Th ... more
EXO WORLDS
Diverse rocky planets found around nearby red dwarf including one in the habitable zone
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
A Canadian-led team has revealed the most detailed analysis yet of the L 98-59 planetary system, confirming the presence of a fifth planet within its habitable zone. The system, located just 35 ligh ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches satellites from California, Florida day after scrubs
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 23, 2025
SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets with satellite payloads after they were scrubbed less than a minute before liftoff one day earlier in Florida and California. ... more
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