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January 28, 2026
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA Testing Advances Space Nuclear Propulsion Capabilities



Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2026
Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit future deep space missions by completing a cold-flow test campaign of the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s. Teams at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, conducted more than 100 tests on the engineering development unit over several months ... read more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA and GE run hybrid jet engine test toward commercial flight
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside a Cincinnati area facility in December looked like standard hardware. For NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up for a d ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
New European Infrared Sounder Maps Atmosphere In Three Dimensions
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
The first images from Europe s pioneering meteorological infrared sounder were unveiled at the EU Space Conference in Brussels, marking a significant advance in observing the atmosphere in three dim ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Webb sharpens view of dark matter shaping the cosmos
London, UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the dark matter that threads through the Universe, revealing how this invisible component has guided the formation of galaxies, stars and planet ... more
AEROSPACE
Stratoship alliance charts staged path for smallsat payloads
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Stratoship has signed a memorandum of understanding with Queensland based companies Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to build a staged lab to space pathway for small satellite payloads. The a ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matter
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
The lightest element in the universe is helping nuclear physicists probe the inner structure of matter with new precision. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Fa ... more
TECH SPACE
How Bitcoin Took Casino Gaming To A Different Dimension
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
At the beginning of the previous decade, online casinos had a firm grip on the industry. Not only had they established their dominance in the market since the beginning of the 21st century, but they had solidified it by combining fintech innovation with high-quality gaming designs and catering to a global audience that accessed the vast majority of their casino games online and on smartphones ... more
EARLY EARTH
Ancient nitrogen enzyme study illuminates early Earth conditions and life detection
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
By resurrecting a 3.2 billion year old enzyme and testing it inside living microbes, researchers have opened a new experimental window on early Earth and how to recognize signs of life on other worl ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Aalyria spacetime platform tapped for AFRL space data network trials
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Aalyria has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development program to advance software solutions for managing complex military space communications networks ... more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
Spire weather data to power AiDASH vegetation and outage risk tools
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Spire Global has been selected by AiDASH to supply advanced space-based weather intelligence for AiDASH's vegetation, storm and ignition risk platform used by electric utilities in North America. Th ... more
WATER WORLD
Geoscientists use satellite to determine not the shape of water, but how water shapes land
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this question by precisely measuring the height and extent of bodies of water. ... more
WATER WORLD
Lunar soil study limits late meteorite role in supplying Earth oceans
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
A long standing idea in planetary science is that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history could have delivered a major share of the planet's water. A new study that mines the Moon's imp ... more
ENERGY TECH
Low frequency lasers modeled to greatly boost nuclear fusion rates
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
A new theoretical study shows that intense laser fields could greatly enhance nuclear fusion reactions by reshaping the collision energies of interacting nuclei before they tunnel through the Coulom ... more
ENERGY TECH
Oak Ridge team plans powerful test facility for next generation fusion components
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is joining with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a world class high heat flux facility to test fusion en ... more
TECH SPACE
Top 7 Free Coin Value Apps for Android and iPhone
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
Modern technology has transformed how we identify and value coins, making what once required expert knowledge accessible to everyone. The best coin value app on your smartphone can instantly tell you if that old quarter is worth keeping or spending. ... more
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Understanding USDT How Stablecoins Maintain Value in Volatile Markets
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Cryptocurrency markets are known for extreme price swings, where values can rise or drop dramatically within hours. This volatility creates uncertainty for traders, investors, and institutions trying to move assets safely. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
What is the state of a quantum system? Answering this question is essential for exploiting quantum properties in emerging devices and for developing new quantum technologies across computing, sensin ... more
WATER WORLD
Activists question treaty power to protect high seas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
After years of international negotiation and diplomacy, the High Seas Treaty has come into force in January 2026, with 61 states ratifying the agreement to protect international waters and marine li ... more
TECH SPACE
Seismic networks offer new way to track space junk reentering atmosphere
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Space debris, the thousands of fragments of human made hardware abandoned in Earth orbit, can threaten people and infrastructure when it falls out of the sky and reaches the ground. Researchers at J ... more
EXO WORLDS
Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant star
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stage planetary ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Sulfur ring molecule in galactic cloud links space chemistry to life
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, working with colleagues at the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, have identified the largest sulfur-bearing molecule yet seen in ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons
Los 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
OUTER PLANETS
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior details
Boston 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
OUTER PLANETS
Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for life
Los 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
EXO WORLDS
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systems
Berlin, 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
MERCURY RISING
Mercury and Earth chorus waves show shared plasma behavior across magnetospheres
Tokyo, 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
SOLAR SCIENCE
Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecasts
Los 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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DRAGON SPACE
Retired EVA workhorse to guide China's next-gen spacesuit and lunar gear
Tokyo, 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
EARLY EARTH
Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resources
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 14, 2026
Curtin University researchers have unveiled a new way to read the ancient history of Australian landscapes using tiny zircon grains that act as a cosmic clock for erosion and sediment storage. ... more
SPACEWAR
Slingshot to embed AI agent in US Space Force space warfare training
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026
Slingshot Aerospace has secured a 27 million dollar contract to modernize how the US Space Force trains for conflict in orbit by embedding its TALOS AI agent into the service's Operational Test and ... more
TECH SPACE
Comtech wins multi-million dollar follow-on contract for civil space components
Los 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
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA astronaut stuck in space for nine months retires
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 21, 2026
A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space agency said Tuesday. ... more
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