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August 26, 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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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
TECH SPACE
Musk's xAI sues Apple, OpenAI alleging antitrust violations
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2025
Elon Musk's companies xAI and X filed a sweeping US antitrust lawsuit Monday against Apple and OpenAI, alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to stifle competition in artificial ... more
TECH SPACE
Why Ethereum Holds Value in 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Ethereum's value lies in what ETH does and why people need it. It powers transactions, secures the network through staking, and burns fees to limit supply. ETH is not just a digital token - it's the ... more
MOON DAILY
Solar System Internet Achieves Breakthrough DTN Edge Processing Test on Lunar Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
In a milestone for interplanetary communications, Lonestar Data Holdings confirmed the successful test of the Solar System Internet's Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) aboard its lunar data center missio ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Mitsubishi Electric to Lead JAXA Fund Project on Next Generation Solar Cells for Satellites
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 2, 2025
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) has been chosen as a representative organization under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund for the initiative "Development of Domestic Solar Cells, Cover Glass, ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Space solar power study outlines potential role in Europes clean energy future
London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
Space-based solar power could significantly reshape Europe's energy system by 2050, according to new research in the journal Joule. The study estimates the technology could reduce Europe's reliance ... more
OUTER PLANETS
New Horizons begins record hibernation in Kuiper Belt
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
At 4:12 a.m. EDT on Aug. 7, mission controllers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory confirmed that New Horizons had safely entered hibernation mode. The spacecraft, operating more than 5.7 b ... more
IRON AND ICE
Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defense
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025


On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying t ... more


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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. ... 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
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
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
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
WOOD PILE
Uganda biomass use may improve through Aston University mapping data
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
New research from Aston University could transform how Uganda manages its biomass resources by providing community-level data instead of national averages. Scientists at the Energy and Bioprod ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


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
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
MARSDAILY
Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2025
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's Artemis II lunar science operations to inform future missions
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025


NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the Moon and back, will advance the agency's goal to land astronauts at the Moon's south polar region and w ... more

SPACEMART
Aerospacelab secures 94M EUR to expand satellite production and development
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2025
Aerospacelab has closed an extended Series B funding round worth 94 million EUR (110 million USD), strengthening its industrial roadmap and positioning as a leading European satellite manufacturer. ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Fresh twist to mystery of Jupiter's core
London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist - as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. ... 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
OUTER PLANETS
Jupiter core mystery not explained by giant planetary impact
London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
A new Durham University study challenges the idea that Jupiter's unusual dilute core was formed by a giant collision, overturning a leading explanation of the planet's interior structure. Jupi ... 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
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
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
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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
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
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
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
Using exoplanets to study dark matter
Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025


More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside ... more

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Dark energy black holes align with DESI data to yield realistic neutrino masses
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
Dark energy, once thought constant across time, may instead evolve through the universe, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Researchers show that interpre ... more
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