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October 09, 2025
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AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Partner to Deliver Space-Based Cellular Service Across the U.S.



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network directly accessible by standard smartphones, has signed a definitive commercial agreement with Verizon (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) to deliver direct-to-cellular service for Verizon customers beginning in 2026. The partnership aims to extend Verizon's award-winning network with space-based broadband coverage across the continental United States. The collaboration will integrate Verizon's terr ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
Space Ocean and Space Nukes Forge Alliance to Develop Deep Space Power Systems
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Space Ocean Corp, a leader in orbital logistics and in-space resource delivery, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Space Nuclear Power Corporation (Space Nukes) to explore the integration of a ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025
International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Blue Origin launches 15th space flight for tourists
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025
Space tourism company Blue Origin launched six people in Texas on its 15th mission in the growing orbital tourism industry. ... more
MARSDAILY
Mars dust devils point to planet wide gale force winds
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
DLR's ATHEAt Flight Experiment Achieves Hypersonic Milestone Over Norway
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully launched its ATHEAt flight experiment from Andoya, Norway, marking a major advance in reusable space transportation technology. The sounding rocket ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Raytheon and Anduril achieve breakthrough test in advanced rocket propulsion
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Anduril Industries have completed a successful static fire test of an advanced solid rocket motor under contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Munition ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab widens iQPS partnership with three more dedicated Electron launches starting 2026
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Rocket Lab has signed a new multi-launch agreement with Japan's Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS), adding three dedicated Electron missions from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand beginning ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Trump jeopardising US role as scientific leader: Nobel officials
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 2, 2025
Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. ... more

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SPACE TRAVEL
University of Mississippi Law School launches first fully online Air and Space Law master's degree
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-gr ... more
MARSDAILY
Computer models point to crew diversity as key to resilient Mars missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One, ... more
EXO WORLDS
Space agencies track rare 3I/ATLAS interstellar object near Mars
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 7, 2025
NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object as it travels past Mars on its way toward the Sun and through the solar system. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Webb reveals carbon rich disc around giant exoplanet
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed measurements of a circumplanetary disc that may serve as a birthplace for moons around a massive exoplanet. The discovery, involving ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
General purpose AI classifies transient cosmic events from just a few examples
London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A study co-led by the University of Oxford, Google Cloud and Radboud University shows a general-purpose large language model, Google's Gemini, can identify real celestial changes and explain its rea ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Water signature detected in interstellar comet 3I ATLAS
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
A fragment of ancient ice and dust from another star system has arrived in our cosmic neighborhood as 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever found. Using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observat ... more
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GPS NEWS
Navigating through interference at Jammertest
Paris (ESA) Oct 07, 2025
is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption, natural or inten ... more
SPACEMART
Radio astronomers gain seat at global standards table on satellite interference
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Radio astronomers have secured a formal role in shaping global standards to mitigate satellite interference with their observations. The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) has been admi ... more
SPACEMART
UK expands international space ties with 23 new collaborations
London, UK (SPX) Sep 30, 2025
A fresh wave of 23 projects will extend the UK's international reach in space science and technology, the UK Space Agency confirmed during the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney. B ... more
SPACEWAR
Muon Space to Demonstrate Dual-Use Environmental Monitoring Constellation under $44.6M Space Force Agreement
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Muon Space has secured a $44.6 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command System Delta ... more
MARSDAILY
Two decades of Mars images reveal fast moving dust devils and stronger winds
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
Combing 20 years of Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imagery, ESA-led researchers cataloged 1,039 dust devils to show how surface winds loft and transport dust across Mars. Published in Sc ... more
MOON DAILY
Lunar mega basin signals radioactive ejecta and reshapes Moon origin story
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
New analyses of the South Pole-Aitken basin recast the formation of the Moon's largest impact crater and what it reveals about lunar origins. Led by University of Arizona planetary scientist Jeffrey ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Real-time tracking of quantum uncertainty achieved using attosecond squeezed light
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Researchers have, for the first time, directly measured quantum uncertainty as it evolves in real time - an achievement that reshapes our understanding of one of the fundamental principles of quantu ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Cosmic constants may explain away dark matter and dark energy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
For decades, astronomers have assumed that dark matter and dark energy dominate the cosmos. Now, new research from the University of Ottawa challenges that foundation, proposing that these unseen co ... more
TECH SPACE
Composite metal foam endures repeated heavy loads at 400C and 600C
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
New research led at NC State shows composite metal foam, or CMF, retains exceptional performance under high temperature cyclic loading. The team reports the lightweight material withstood repeated h ... more
TECH SPACE
Light-driven control of topological structures unlocks new path for ultrafast memory
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
In a breakthrough uniting photonics and condensed matter physics, researchers have developed a new optical technique to precisely control topological solitons - including skyrmions and antiskyrmions ... more
TECH SPACE
New theory transforms understanding of nanoscale heat transport
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Heat, once thought to flow smoothly and predictably through materials, behaves far more intricately when observed at the nanoscale. A team from Auburn University and the U.S. Department of Energy's ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms Race
Budapest, Hungary (SPX) Oct 06, 2025
The launch of the US 'Golden Dome' missile defence initiative has already set in motion ripple effects across the globe. Rival nations are considering their own layered missile defence architectures ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Sharper than ever: New algorithm brings the stars into greater focus
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2025
Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the ... more
MOON DAILY
With new analysis, Apollo samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveal exotic sulfur hidden in Moon's mantle
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced eq ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Chinese astronauts complete fourth spacewalk of Shenzhou XX mission
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Crew members aboard the Shenzhou XX spacecraft carried out their fourth extravehicular activity, completing critical tasks outside the Tiangong space station, the China Manned Space Agency reported. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Gaia data uncovers hidden link between asteroid collisions and chaotic spin states
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
Whether an asteroid spins smoothly or tumbles chaotically depends on how often it has collided with other objects, according to new findings presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
How rotating black holes unleash cosmic particle jets
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2025
At the center of the massive galaxy M87 lies the supermassive black hole M87*, weighing six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun and spinning rapidly on its axis. From this powerhouse, an en ... more
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