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SpaceX launched secretive X-37B US military space droneWashington (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. ... more  
Ceres once held deep energy reserves that may have supported lifeLos 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 
Space Force establishes Systems Delta 85 to strengthen space defense integrationLos 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  
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion ratesVancouver, 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 |
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First-of-its-kind supernova reveals innerworkings of a dying starEvanston 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 
Astronomers capture a record 130-year evolution of a dying starManchester 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  
Space Machines finalizes Scintilla propulsion engine for Optimus ViperSydney, 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 
Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin storyLos 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 |
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Fireball lights up Japanese skiesTokyo (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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Gas streamers reveal how massive young stars gain their massTokyo, 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  
SiriusXM activates SXM 10 to bolster North American audio networkLos 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  
Spacesuit milestone reached with 20 spacewalks on Chinese stationTokyo, 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 
AI assistant supports Chinese space station astronautsTokyo, 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 |
BlackSky expands non Earth imaging partnership with HEO under new seven figure contractLos 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  |
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CerraCap backs Space Kinetic to accelerate space superiority and missile defenseLos 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 
Early detection methods refine study of stellar explosionsParis, 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  
Healthy mouse offspring born from space preserved stem cellsKyoto, 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  
Alien aurora: Researchers discover new plasma wave in Jupiter's auroraMinneapolis 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 |
Supernovae: How to spot them at record speedParis, 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  
LunaGrid Lite advances toward lunar power transmission milestoneLos 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  
New model shows how collapsing matter and voids shape cosmic evolutionSydney, 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 
Asteroid family link strengthened by SwRI analysis of Bennu and RyuguLos 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 |
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Destructive cosmic airbursts likely more common than previously believedSanta 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  
CO2 increase to reshape geomagnetic storm impacts on satellitesLos 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 
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may helpLondon, 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  
PREFIRE CubeSats to operate through 2026 as mission expands worldwideLos 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 |
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Preparing rock analysis methods on Earth for future Mars samplesLos 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 clustersBerlin, 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 
Magnetic field mapping in Sagittarius C reveals new clues to Milky Way core dynamicsLos 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  
TRAPPIST-1 d ruled out as Earth twin by Webb studyParis, 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  
China accelerates space computing as Geovis and Sugon map an orbital data networkTokyo, 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 |
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