Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
A joint team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory UEL has developed a transformable airless wheel designed to help small rovers access steep lunar pits and lava tubes. The wheel targets subsurface sites considered promising for future human habitats because they shield against cosmic radiation and extreme temperature swings.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025
After nearly five years operating inside Mars Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has logged almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving while engineers certify that its mobility hardware and other subsystems can keep working for many more years. Built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Perseverance is following up the long-running Curiosity rover

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-ray burst. The team observed the explosive death of a massive star when the universe was about 730 million years old, placing the event deep in the era of reionisation. The discovery offers a direct vi

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researchers use it to study how stars, planets, galaxies and potential precursors of life form by measuring millimeter and submillimeter radiation from cold molecular clouds. These molecular clouds are interste

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The milestone image, acquired on Oct. 7, shows mesas and sand dunes in Syrtis Major, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's Persevera

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operating as intended. Taken on Nov. 17, months before the start of routine science observations, these first light images also preview the type of data the mission will collect on Earth's outer atmosphere.