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As we prepare for missions beyond Earth orbit, one crucial challenge remains: keeping astronauts healthy in microgravity. Without daily exercise, their muscles, bones and cardiovascular systems weaken, which could impact mission success and astronaut safety, especially in destinations such as the Moon or Mars, where crew will have to operate autonomously immediately after landing.

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Image: Proba-3: our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona

Los 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 specifically to serve the global wildfire community. The company, which focuses on space and defense technologies, will provide capabilities aimed at improving how FireSat data is presented and used by frontlin

Los 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 curvature of space and time. For gravity to fit into a unified quantum framework, it must be mediated by particles called gravitons, but detecting even a single graviton was long considered fundamentally imp

Tokyo, 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 at 12:01 pm local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and placed the AlSat 3A spacecraft into its planned orbit. Project contractor China Great