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Ancient Heavy Water Found in Planet-Forming Disk Reveals Solar Origins of Earth's OceansCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 Astronomers have detected "heavy water" in a planet-forming disk for the first time, uncovering compelling evidence that much of the water in our Solar System predates the Sun itself. The discovery ... more  
Beyond Gravity boosts Swiss production of solar array mechanismsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 Beyond Gravity has expanded its Swiss production capacity for solar array drive mechanisms (SADMs) by doubling its manufacturing floor area, enabling a fivefold increase in annual output from 36 to ... more  
ESA taps NanoAvionics to build large cubesat for EU IOD IOV missionVilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 ESA, acting through ESTEC, has chosen Lithuania-based Kongsberg NanoAvionics to deliver a large cubesat platform for the European Union's in-orbit demonstration and validation program. Under the IHE ... more  
Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recordedParis (ESA) Oct 16, 2025 No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a scenario unlike any before: a solar storm of extreme magnitude. Fortunatel ... more |
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Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old "proto Earth"Boston MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive pla ... more  
Gilat Secures $42 Million in Multi-Orbit Platform Orders as In-Flight Connectivity SurgesPetah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 Gilat Satellite Networks has received $42 million in new orders from a major global satellite operator for its SkyEdge IV multi-orbit platform. The systems will be delivered over the next year, expa ... more  
SATLINE boosts European satellite reach with new UK data centerLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 SATLINE has launched a new United Kingdom data center to expand its satellite coverage and enhance broadcast, IPTV, and OTT performance across Europe. The new facility, equipped with two high-perfor ... more  
Space Ocean and Enduralock to unify orbital docking standards for in-space fluid and power transferBrownsville TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 Space Ocean Corp has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Enduralock to integrate the company's OneLink system as a standardized docking interface for in-orbit fluid, power, and data transfer. The c ... more |
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Stopping slime on Earth and in spaceTempe AZ (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 How do you prevent biofilms - large communities of bacteria like the slime on your teeth before you brush - from growing in water systems in space and on Earth? A multi-university research tea ... more |
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United launches first mainline flight with Starlink WiFi onboardChicago IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 United Airlines is set to make aviation history with the first Starlink-equipped mainline flight scheduled for takeoff tomorrow morning. United flight 2940 will depart from Newark/New York to Housto ... more 
Virgin Atlantic to Upgrade 787 Fleet with Boeing High-Speed Wi-Fi SystemLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 Boeing and Virgin Atlantic will equip the airline's fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners with high-speed, streaming-quality Wi-Fi under a new connectivity modification agreement announced during MRO Euro ... more  
K2 Space Corp, SpaceX ink Falcon 9 rocket deal for 2027 missionWashington DC (UPI) Oct 14, 2025 Aerospace startup company K2 Space will team up with SpaceX to deploy a small number of K2 satellites into multiple levels of Earth's orbit. ... more 
PLD Space fast-tracks MIURA 5 and sharpens Europe leadership in space accessMadrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 PLD Space says it has advanced its reusable MIURA 5 orbital launcher from concept to near-validation in just two years, crediting vertical integration, MIURA 1 heritage, and in-house manufacturing. ... more |
Rocket Lab begins 21-mission campaign for Synspective with successful Electron launchSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Rocket Lab has launched the first of 21 planned Electron missions for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective, successfully deploying the StriX-3 satellite to low Earth orbit on October 14. The m ... more  |
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Snapdragon Mission Tactical Radio gains Iridium data for global L band connectivityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Iridium Communications and Qualcomm Technologies have integrated Iridium data services into the Snapdragon Mission Tactical Radio, aiming to deliver resilient, secure L band satellite links for U.S. ... more  
Eagleview launches innovation center to expand AI-driven geospatial intelligenceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Eagleview has announced the creation of Eagleview Labs, a new innovation center focused on accelerating the commercial and government applications of geospatial intelligence. The initiative aims to ... more  
Blocks of dry ice carve gullies on Martian dunes through explosive sublimationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Mysterious gullies carved into Martian sand dunes have long puzzled planetary scientists. Now, new experiments by Utrecht University Earth scientist Dr Lonneke Roelofs suggest they were dug not by f ... more 
Key ExoMars Rover part ships from AberystwythAberystwyth, Wales (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing. The infrared spectrom ... more |
Yeast withstands Mars-like shocks and toxic salts in survival testSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity - from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at th ... more  
Could these wacky warm Jupiters help astronomers solve the planet formation puzzle?Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 What do you do when you have an unanticipated astronomical phenomenon, a dataset made of planets thousands of light-years away and theoretical models that fail to explain what exactly you're looking ... more 
Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown - using Musk's StarlinkBeijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2025 They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation can reveal. ... more  
Rice physicists probe quark-gluon plasma temperatures, helping paint more detailed picture of big bangHouston TX (SPX) Oct 14, 2025 A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at various stages of its evolution, providing critical insights in ... more |
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Dark Matter might leave a 'fingerprint' on light, scientists sayYork UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 Dark Matter, the substance that makes up most of the Universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light 'fingerprint', new research shows. Previously assumed to be invisible, the s ... more 
White dwarf binaries heated by intense tidal forces evolve faster than predictedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 White dwarfs, the dense remnants of exhausted stars, are usually ancient, dim, and cool. Yet some binary systems containing them defy expectations, glowing tens of thousands of degrees hotter than t ... more  
Composite metal foam endures repeated heavy loads at 400C and 600CLos 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 
Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturingBoston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 For decades, it's been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter - or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recen ... more |
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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft partsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum. The new printable metal is mad ... more |
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North American ice sheets caused majority of post-Ice Age sea-level riseNew Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 11, 2025 Melting ice sheets in North America were the primary cause of a dramatic global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, according to new research led by Tulane University and published in Nat ... more 
Astronomers find mystery dark object in distant universeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe. Finding more such objects and understanding their nature could rule out some th ... more 
Completed Plato spacecraft construction enters final test campaignParis, France (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final ... more 
Europe cannot let US, China be 'technological leaders': Nobel laureate AghionStockholm Oct 13, 2025 One of the winners of this year's Nobel economics prize, France's Philippe Aghion, on Monday warned Europe that it must not let the United States and China dominate technological innovation. ... more |
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