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Lunar mega basin signals radioactive ejecta and reshapes Moon origin story
New analyses of the South Pole-Aitken basin recast the formation of the Moon's largest impact crater and what it reveals about lunar origins. Led by University of Arizona planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, the study in Nature outlines how the basin's geometry and chemistry point to a northward-moving impactor and a radioactive-rich ejecta deposit.
Spanning more than 1,200 miles nor Europe needs reusable rockets to catch Musk's SpaceX: ESA chief
Europe must quickly get its own reusable rocket launcher to catch up to billionaire Elon Musk's dominant SpaceX, European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher told AFP in an interview.
While the US company has an overwhelming lead in the booming space launch industry, a series of setbacks, including Russia's withdrawal of its rockets, left Europe without an independent way to blast its mis SpaceX targets nighttime launch of competitor Amazon's satellites
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Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission
The European Space Agency’s upcoming FORUM mission is set to provide unique insights into Earth’s radiation budget, filling in a missing piece in the climate puzzle. The mission’s spectrometer will be the first space-based instrument to measure Earth’s outgoing radiation in the far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. New technologies were needed to make this possible – among these an on-ground calibration device developed by the National Metrology Institute of Germany PTB within a recent activity funded by ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. This device is used
Water signature detected in interstellar comet 3I ATLAS
A fragment of ancient ice and dust from another star system has arrived in our cosmic neighborhood as 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever found. Using NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Auburn University physicists detected hydroxyl gas, the ultraviolet by-product of water, confirming active water release from this visitor.
Swift's vantage point above Earth's atmosphere en General purpose AI classifies transient cosmic events from just a few examples
A study co-led by the University of Oxford, Google Cloud and Radboud University shows a general-purpose large language model, Google's Gemini, can identify real celestial changes and explain its reasoning using only 15 example image triplets and brief instructions, achieving about 93% accuracy across ATLAS, MeerLICHT and Pan-STARRS alerts.
The workflow ingests New, Reference and Difference Webb reveals carbon rich disc around giant exoplanet
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed measurements of a circumplanetary disc that may serve as a birthplace for moons around a massive exoplanet. The discovery, involving the companion world CT Cha b located 625 light years away, sheds light on how Jupiter's Galilean satellites may have emerged more than four billion years ago.
The international team used Webb's Computer models point to crew diversity as key to resilient Mars missions
Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One, the study used agent-based modeling to probe how personality mix and team roles shape stress, health, performance, and cohesion over a simulated 500-day mission.
The model linked individual dif University of Mississippi Law School launches first fully online Air and Space Law master's degree
The University of Mississippi School of Law has introduced the nation's first fully online Master of Science in Air and Space Law, designed to equip professionals for leadership roles in the fast-growing aerospace sector. Created in collaboration with instructional design firm iDesign, the program delivers a comprehensive legal foundation for those working in aviation, commercial space, and emer 
