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October 31, 2025
DRAGON SPACE
China's latest astronaut trio dock at Tiangong Space Station



Jiuquan, China (AFP) Oct 30, 2025
A crew of three Chinese astronauts, including the country's youngest-ever, docked early Saturday at the Tiangong space station, accompanied by four lab mice. The Shenzhou-21 spaceship docked at 3:22 am (1922 GMT Friday), China's state news agency Xinhua reported. ... read more

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MOON DAILY
China accelerates crewed lunar mission with commercial partnerships and testing milestones
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
China is integrating commercial competition into its manned lunar exploration program to hasten development. The agency has adopted competitive models for the crewed lunar rover, lunar surface remot ... more
ROBO SPACE
Consciousness debate intensifies as scientists urge clarity while AI and robotics advance
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Scientists warn that as artificial intelligence and neurotechnology accelerate in development, the need to understand consciousness has now become a scientific and ethical priority. In a major revie ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
A collaborative team led by Dr. Mir Faizal at the University of British Columbia Okanagan has mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation. Working alongside Drs. Lawrence ... more
TECH SPACE
Don't Look Up, Space is Filled With Junk
Durham NC (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
In the early days of space exploration, satellites were rare. Each launch was a feat of engineering and ambition, sending machines far above the Earth into orbits where they could drift undisturbed. ... more
TECH SPACE
Expanded orbital computing initiative announced for next Momentus mission with DPhi Space partnership
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Momentus Inc., a U.S. commercial space company, will partner with DPhi Space to fly a Clustergate-2 edge computing payload on its upcoming Vigoride 7 mission, scheduled for launch in early 2026. The ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Neutrino oscillation experiments uncover clues to universe's matter dominance
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Physicists have long questioned why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter, since models of the Big Bang predict equal creation of both. If matter and antimatter had completely an ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
New JAXA HTV-X Cargo Vehicle Launches with Over 20 Research Projects for the International Space Station
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its HTV-X cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 26, 2025, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. ... more
GPS NEWS
PntGuard delivers maritime resilience against navigation signal interference
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Tschudi Shipping Company, NAL Research, and SGM Technology AS have launched PntGuard, a standalone maritime navigation security system designed to counter increasing incidents of GNSS and GPS spoofi ... more

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TIME AND SPACE
Xairos proceeds with next phase of Quantum Time Transfer Project back by ESA
London, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Xairos UK Ltd has launched Phase 2 of its quantum time transfer project supported by the European Space Agency's Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP). Acting as prime contractor, Xai ... more
TECH SPACE
GMV and Real Betis Install Satellite Tracking Station in Seville to Support Space Surveillance and Sustainability
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
GMV and the Real Betis professional soccer team have inaugurated a satellite tracking and collision prediction station at the Rafael Gordillo Sports Complex near Seville. This facility enhances Euro ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
VLT telescope images cosmic nebula resembling a bat above Chile
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Astronomers have captured a striking cloud of gas and dust shaped like a bat high above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile. The cosmic bat was imaged by the VLT Survey Telesco ... more
VSAT NEWS
OrbitsIQ acquires UNIO Enterprise to advance global connectivity
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
OrbitsIQ Global, a Luxembourg-headquartered telecommunications company focused on integrating satellite and terrestrial connectivity for mobile assets, has acquired UNIO Enterprise, a Munich-based b ... more
AEROSPACE
Skydweller Aero and Nokia Federal Solutions Secure US Navy Contract to Develop Airborne Beyond 5G Tactical Network
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Skydweller Aero and Nokia Federal Solutions Inc. received a US Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to demonstrate an airborne 5G communication hub designed for secure, resilient ... more
SPACEMART
Catalyx Space expands orbital logistics after securing 5.4 million dollar seed funding
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Catalyx Space, Inc. has raised 5.4 million dollars in a seed funding round led by Outlander VC. The startup specializes in space infrastructure solutions that support scheduled orbital logistics ope ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


TECH SPACE
ESA Expands Space Safety Fleet to Protect Earth and Enable Sustainable Space Operations
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
ESA's Space Safety Programme advances initiatives to detect, predict, and counter space hazards - including threats from asteroids, solar storms, and space debris. The program develops missions and ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate report: Earth on dangerous path but rapid action can avert the worst outcomes
Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
2024 was the hottest year on record and likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years, according to an annual report issued by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Halloween fireballs could signal increased risk of cosmic impact or airburst in 2032 and 2036
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the "Halloween fireballs", they are named for the constellation Taurus-the bul ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Supersolid state synchronizes under rotation unlocking quantum vortex behavior
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
A supersolid is an unusual state of matter showing both crystal rigidity and frictionless flow, a paradox realized only in recent years within dipolar quantum gases. Researchers at the University of ... more
TECH SPACE
NOVI's AI-Enabled SEED Payload Delivers Rapid Marine Vessel Detection from ISS
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
NOVI Space Inc. has demonstrated its AI-based object detection system operating onboard the International Space Station as part of the Space Edge Experiments and Demonstrations SEED payload. The SEE ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Henon CubeSat to pioneer distant retrograde orbit with early solar storm warnings
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
ESA will launch the Henon CubeSat on a mission scheduled for late 2026, utilizing the launch capacity of a larger spacecraft. The CubeSat will be transported to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, about ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
ESA's first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon takes shape
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and manoeuvre to its final destination without rely ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black hole collisions explained by new simulations of OJ 287 system
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and their collaborators have used advanced calculations and simulations to unravel the periodic flashes observed in the gala ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Men show significant ocular changes after space travel
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
A new study led by Rachael D. Seidler, director of the University of Florida's Astraeus Space Institute, examined how factors such as sex, age, and body metrics relate to brain and eye changes in as ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Radio view of Milky Way gains new detail in southern sky survey
Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new im ... more
VSAT NEWS
Agreement paves way for space-based mobile broadband across Middle East and NAfrica
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
AST SpaceMobile and stc group have signed a ten-year commercial contract to deliver satellite direct-to-device mobile broadband throughout Saudi Arabia and selected areas in the Middle East and Afri ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China set to launch new crew to Tiangong space station
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
China is preparing to launch three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou XXI mission to the Tiangong space station, with liftoff scheduled for 11:44 pm on October 31 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Cente ... more
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ROBO SPACE
Space Robotics at the Edge of the Unknown
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Many robotics systems function in conditions where the environment is well-defined: factory floors, urban roads, research facilities. But what about robots designed for space? Keenan Albee, ... more
ROBO SPACE
Orbital data and energy collaboration accelerates space-based assembly
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Rendezvous Robotics and Starcloud have initiated a formal partnership to integrate autonomous modular assembly systems with orbital power and cooling infrastructure for gigawatt-scale datacenter cap ... more
TECH SPACE
India space agency to launch its heaviest satellite
Bengaluru, India (AFP) Oct 30, 2025
India's space agency will launch its heaviest ever communication satellite on its largest launch vehicle on Sunday, its latest step in an ambitious space and technology drive. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black hole simulation model offers new insights into spacetime
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Researchers in China have created a computational model that reveals the dynamic changes in the appearance of rotating regular Hayward black holes over time. Their approach uses a spatio-temporal ra ... more
EXO WORLDS
New experiments reveal key process forming water during planet creation
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could hold extensive liquid water reserves, scientists report, based on formative interactions between primitive atmospheres and magma oceans during early p ... more
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