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August 22, 2025
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SpaceX launched secretive X-37B US military space drone



Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space on Thursday night carrying the US military's secretive X-37B drone. The rocket successfully launched at 11:50 pm (0350 GMT on Friday), according to SpaceX's livestream of the event. ... read more

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IRON AND ICE
Ceres once held deep energy reserves that may have supported life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research h ... more
SPACEWAR
Space Force establishes Systems Delta 85 to strengthen space defense integration
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Space Systems Command has officially activated Systems Delta 85, a new organization designed to unify acquisition and operational support for space defense missions. The command and activation cerem ... more
ENERGY TECH
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target with deuterium fuel can boost nuclear f ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
First-of-its-kind supernova reveals innerworkings of a dying star
Evanston IL (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected a never-before-seen type of exploding star, or supernova, that is rich with silicon, sulfur and argo ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers capture a record 130-year evolution of a dying star
Manchester UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century - revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space Machines finalizes Scintilla propulsion engine for Optimus Viper
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Space Machines Company has announced the completion of its in-house Scintilla propulsion engine, designed to power the Optimus Viper platform for rapid orbital manoeuvring and space domain awareness ... more
IRON AND ICE
Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust orbiting our Sun. The asteroids we see today are some of the most complete artifacts of this formation le ... more
IRON AND ICE
Fireball lights up Japanese skies
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2025
A flashing fireball dashed across the skies of western Japan, shocking residents and dazzling stargazers, though experts said it was a natural phenomenon and not an alien invasion. Videos an ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gas streamers reveal how massive young stars gain their mass
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
A research team led by Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo has identified gas streamers as a key mechanism feeding high-mass young stars, challenging the long-held assumption that large acc ... more
SPACEMART
SiriusXM activates SXM 10 to bolster North American audio network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
SiriusXM and Maxar Space Systems said the SXM-10 satellite has finished in-orbit testing and is now in full operational service with SiriusXM. The spacecraft launched on June 7, 2025 aboard a SpaceX ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Spacesuit milestone reached with 20 spacewalks on Chinese station
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
The extravehicular spacesuit B aboard China's space station has achieved a major milestone by supporting 20 spacewalks, according to the China Astronaut Research and Training Center. Astronaut Chen ... more
DRAGON SPACE
AI assistant supports Chinese space station astronauts
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
The crew of China's Tiangong space station recently conducted their third spacewalk with the help of a new artificial intelligence system named Wukong AI, marking the first use of a large-scale AI m ... more
SPACEWAR
BlackSky expands non Earth imaging partnership with HEO under new seven figure contract
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
BlackSky Technology Inc. has signed a seven figure Gen 2 space domain awareness expansion contract with HEO to provide fully automated low latency non Earth imaging services for defense, intelligenc ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
CerraCap backs Space Kinetic to accelerate space superiority and missile defense
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
CerraCap Ventures has invested in Space Kinetic Corp., a cleared national security innovator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The move aligns with CerraCap's push to speed space defense technologies and bolster the United States strategic edge as space becomes increasingly contested ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Early detection methods refine study of stellar explosions
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Supernovae are sudden stellar explosions that flare brightly in the sky, making them difficult to capture in their earliest moments. With modern wide-field, high-cadence sky surveys, astronomers can ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Healthy mouse offspring born from space preserved stem cells
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A Kyoto University team has demonstrated that cryopreserved mouse spermatogonial stem cells stored aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for six months can still produce healthy offspring aft ... more
MOON DAILY
LunaGrid Lite advances toward lunar power transmission milestone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Astrobotic reported that its LunaGrid-Lite mission has cleared Critical Design Review (CDR) and has begun building flight hardware, moving the project closer to a planned 2026 demonstration of lunar ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Alien aurora: Researchers discover new plasma wave in Jupiter's aurora
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in Jupiter's aurora. This research helps us u ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New model shows how collapsing matter and voids shape cosmic evolution
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A University of Queensland researcher has developed a mathematical framework that incorporates collapsing regions of matter and expanding cosmic voids to explain the universe's evolution in greater ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Supernovae: How to spot them at record speed
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
Supernovae appear to our eyes-and to astronomical instruments-as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places where nothing was visible just moments before. The flash is cau ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid family link strengthened by SwRI analysis of Bennu and Ryugu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
A Southwest Research Institute study of near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu provides compelling evidence that both objects originated from the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt be ... more
IRON AND ICE
Destructive cosmic airbursts likely more common than previously believed
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2025
Touchdown airburstseart - a type of cosmic impact that may be more common than the crater-forming, dinosaur-killing kindeart - remain somewhat less understood. UC Santa Barbara Earth Science Emeritu ... more
TECH SPACE
CO2 increase to reshape geomagnetic storm impacts on satellites
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
Rising carbon dioxide levels in Earths upper atmosphere will alter how geomagnetic storms influence satellite operations, according to new research from the U.S. National Science Foundation National ... more
TIME AND SPACE
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may help
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
A team of physicists is arguing that one of the biggest taboos in cosmology-asking what existed before the big bang-can now be approached using numerical relativity. In a new paper published in Livi ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
PREFIRE CubeSats to operate through 2026 as mission expands worldwide
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2025
NASA has extended the PREFIRE mission through September 2026 and broadened its scope from the poles to the entire planet. The twin shoebox-size CubeSats measure how water vapor, clouds, and other co ... more
MARSDAILY
Preparing rock analysis methods on Earth for future Mars samples
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
In 2024, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance retrieved an unusual specimen named Sapphire Canyon, a red mudstone with white, black-edged spots that could reveal potential sources of organic molecules on ... more
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Gaia data maps variable stars across Milky Way clusters
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, Richard I. Anderson of EPFL and Emily Hunt of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy produced the first galaxy-scale map linking variable st ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Magnetic field mapping in Sagittarius C reveals new clues to Milky Way core dynamics
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025
The complex and turbulent Galactic Center has long challenged astronomers attempting to model its underlying physics. Now, new measurements of the magnetic field in Sagittarius C, a region within th ... more
EXO WORLDS
TRAPPIST-1 d ruled out as Earth twin by Webb study
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
Astronomers have determined that TRAPPIST-1 d, a rocky exoplanet similar in size to Earth and located in a potentially temperate zone, lacks an Earth-like atmosphere based on new NASA/ESA/CSA James ... more
INTERNET SPACE
China accelerates space computing as Geovis and Sugon map an orbital data network
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
China is accelerating investment in the emerging space information, or space computing, sector that it frames as a future trillion-yuan growth engine, with leading firms joining to process satellite ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Chinese rocket launches Mexican built satellites in international collaboration
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
CAS Space successfully carried out the eighth flight of its Kinetica 1 rocket on Tuesday afternoon, sending seven satellites into orbit, including two designed and built in Mexico. The liftoff took ... more
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