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Major equity deal backs Gilmour Space expansion of sovereign launch capabilitySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Gilmour Space Technologies has raised 217 million Australian dollars in private equity funding to accelerate the next phase of its sovereign space operations in Australia. The Series E round w ... more  
Lunar impacts limit late delivery of Earth ocean waterWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2026 A long-standing idea in planetary science proposes that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history delivered a major share of the planet's water inventory. A new study led by researchers a ... more  
ExLabs and ChibaTech team up to land student CubeLanders on asteroid ApophisSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center to deliver university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis during its close a ... more  
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior detailsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospher ... more |
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Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moonsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath ... more 
Europa ice delamination may deliver nutrients to hidden oceanLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A new geophysics study proposes a mechanism that could move life-sustaining nutrients from the battered surface of Europa down into its buried global ocean, improving the odds that the Jovian moon c ... more 
Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may contain twice ... more  
Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Quantum mechanics describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states, being in multiple places and configurations at once, encoded in a mathematical object called a ... more |
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Cosmic dust chemistry forges peptide building blocks in deep spaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 New experiments show that key molecular building blocks for life can form spontaneously on icy dust grains in deep space long before planets emerge from collapsing gas clouds. In a laboratory ... more |
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Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiationRochester NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from ... more  
Mercury and Earth chorus waves show shared plasma behavior across magnetospheresTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team has shown that natural electromagnetic chorus waves, long known in Earths magnetosphere, also occur in Mercurys much weaker magnetosphere with strikingly similar frequency beha ... more 
Primordial magnetism offers fresh angle on the Hubble constant puzzleLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A Simon Fraser University cosmologist reports that new theoretical work on primordial magnetic fields could move researchers closer to resolving the longstanding Hubble tension, the mismatch in meas ... more 
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systemsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Astronomers have assembled the most detailed view so far of planetary systems in a long elusive stage between their birth and maturity, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ... more |
 
Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecastsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for predicting futur ... more  |
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SunRISE small satellites clear vibration tests ahead of launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 When NASA's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) launches later this year, six toaster-oven-size spacecraft will work together in orbit to form a single powerful radio observatory foc ... more 
Teledyne detector arrays power NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat X-ray missionSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Teledyne Technologies has confirmed that its Space Imaging division has successfully deployed Speedster HyViSI Hybrid Visible Silicon Imager focal plane arrays ... more  
Orion to advance IARPA system for tracking small space debrisLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Orion Space Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, has received a follow-on subcontract from Advanced Space to support Phase 2 of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Spac ... more 
Comtech wins multi-million dollar follow-on contract for civil space componentsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has received a follow-on space components award valued at more than 5 million dollars to support a major civil space exploration program in the United States. The aw ... more |
 
GRACE gravity data reveal deep Earth signal linksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Variations in Earths gravity field on annual to decadal timescales are usually attributed to changes in land water storage and ocean mass. However, seasonal observations reveal notable discrepancies ... more  
Retired EVA workhorse to guide China's next-gen spacesuit and lunar gearTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Chinese engineers are turning a long-serving spacewalk suit into a real-world testbed to extend the life and performance of China's next-generation EVA and lunar spacesuits. The retired "extra ... more  
Keysight joins Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN project to advance 5G satellite NTNLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Keysight Technologies is collaborating on the Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator to explore 5G non-terrestrial network capabilities using software-defined satellite technology in both ground and in ... more 
Interstellar raises major Series F funding to expand launch and satellite businessTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Interstellar Technologies, a privately held Japanese space infrastructure company, has completed a Series F funding round totaling 20.1 billion JPY (approximately 129.7 million USD) through a third- ... more |
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Atomic 6 debris shields selected for Portal Space Systems missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Atomic-6 has secured a key deployment of its Space Armor tiles as the primary micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection system on an upcoming Portal Space Systems spacecraft that will fly on Spac ... more  
ExoAnalytic tools to power FireSat wildfire monitoring constellationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. has been selected to develop advanced software and visualization tools for the Earth Fire Alliance FireSat program, an emerging satellite constellation designed specifical ... more 
China lofts AlSat 3A imaging craft for AlgeriaTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 China has launched a Long March 2C rocket carrying a remote sensing satellite for Algeria, extending long running space cooperation between the two countries. The two stage launcher lifted off ... more 
China tests Long March 12B reusable first stage at JiuquanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp has carried out a static firing test of the first stage of its new Long March 12B reusable carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northw ... more |
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Galactic Energy conducts sixth offshore Ceres 1 mission from Yellow Sea platformBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Galactic Energy has carried out its sixth sea based mission of the Ceres 1 solid fuel launcher, adding four more spacecraft to the Tianqi commercial internet of things constellation. The lates ... more |
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Computer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter's cloudsChicago IL (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant--so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exac ... more 
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiationRochester NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from ... more 
Keck backed team advances first graviton detector conceptLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Modern physics faces a deep inconsistency between quantum theory, which explains nature using discrete particles and interactions, and general relativity, which describes gravity as a smooth curvatu ... more  
China Sky Eye tracks binary-triggered fast radio burst activityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 An international team of astronomers has obtained the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate in binary stellar systems rather than from isolated objects. The work cen ... more |
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