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August 25, 2025
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX scrubs latest Starship launch due to bad weather



Washington (AFP) Aug 26, 2025
Bad weather on Monday forced SpaceX to postpone the latest launch of its massive prototype Starship rocket, key to founder Elon Musk's dreams of colonizing Mars and NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon. The tenth test flight, which could now happen as soon as Tuesday, comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for the world's most powerful launch vehicle following a string of explosive failures that have begun raising doubts about its viability. Standing 403 feet (123 meters) tall, the ... read more

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ROBO SPACE
Perplexity AI to share search revenue with publishers
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Aug 25, 2025
Perplexity AI on Monday said it will begin paying out millions of dollars to media outlets as part of a new model for sharing search revenue with publishers. The company's media partners wil ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Dragon supply mission docks with International Space Station
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 25, 2025
The International Space Station received more than 5,000 pounds of supplies after a SpaceX cargo spacecraft arrived there Monday. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Bennu samples reveal shifting asteroid colors as planetary scientist links spectra to surface ages
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. How these asteroids ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New spectroscopy method reveals hidden atomic transitions in samarium
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have demonstrated a new spectroscopy approach that reveals previously unknown transitions in samarium ... more
EXO WORLDS
Model brings clarity to water rich exoplanets called steam worlds
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert-essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most com ... more
EXO WORLDS
Mapping star spots with NASA missions offers new insight into exoplanets
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Scientists have developed a new technique to chart the star spots of distant suns using data from NASA's TESS and Kepler missions. The method, called StarryStarryProcess, builds on long-standing mod ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Giant star stripped to its core reveals origins of silicon and sulfur
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Researchers led by Northwestern University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a rare type of supernova that exposes the hidden inner layers of a massive star, revealing where heav ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Massive binary star system confirmed in Milky Way cluster
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory has taken the sharpest look yet at one of the heaviest pairs of stars in our galaxy, known as NGC 3603-A1. Using previously unpubli ... more

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Interstellar comet 3I ATLAS studied by Webb Hubble and SPHEREx
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph during observations on August 6. Researchers are now analyzing the results ... more
TECH SPACE
Worlds tallest bridge clears load capacity trials
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
A convoy of 96 trucks weighing a combined 3,360 metric tons completed the final load-bearing test of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge on Monday, confirming the structural readiness of the worlds hig ... more
SPACEWAR
SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 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 t ... 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
SPACE MEDICINE
Healthy mouse offspring born from space preserved stem cells
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 22, 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
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid family link strengthened by SwRI analysis of Bennu and Ryugu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 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
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


MISSILE DEFENSE
CerraCap backs Space Kinetic to accelerate space superiority and missile defense
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 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
OUTER PLANETS
Jupiter birth dated through ancient molten rock droplets in meteorites
Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Aug 25, 2025
Researchers from Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have determined the timing of Jupiter's formation by studying tiny molten rock spheres known as chondrul ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
Juice mission on track for Venus flyby after spacecraft communications restored
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 25, 2025
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has resumed normal operations after a communications anomaly temporarily cut contact during its cruise to Venus for a critical gravity- ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab marks milestone with 70th Electron launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2025
Rocket Lab Corporation has achieved its 70th successful Electron mission, underscoring the rocket's status as the world's most frequently launched small orbital vehicle and reinforcing the company's ... more
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
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
IRON AND ICE
Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 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
ENERGY TECH
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Aug 22, 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
Supernovae: How to spot them at record speed
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 22, 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
EARTH OBSERVATION
Ozone recovery will accelerate global warming say scientists
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
The world is set to heat up more than expected because of future changes in ozone, which shields Earth from ultraviolet radiation but also acts as a greenhouse gas. Although international bans ... more
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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers capture a record 130-year evolution of a dying star
Manchester UK (SPX) Aug 22, 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
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Alien aurora: Researchers discover new plasma wave in Jupiter's aurora
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 22, 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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
First-of-its-kind supernova reveals innerworkings of a dying star
Evanston IL (SPX) Aug 22, 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
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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Early detection methods refine study of stellar explosions
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 22, 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
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
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