London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
The vast archival legacy of George Biddell Airy, former director of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, stretches 110 meters across the Cambridge University Library shelves-roughly the length of a football field. In a new paper published in Isis: the Journal of the History of Science Society, historian Yuto Ishibashi explores how Airy's meticulous approach to recordkeeping and standardization deep

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Built upon more than three decades of space-proven electronic systems and trillions of miles of cumulative flight heritage, Aitech has introduced the IQSat, an ultra-compact, AI-enabled picosatellite platform capable of forming large-scale constellations. The new system enables broad, persistent coverage of the Earth, offering real-time insights into life patterns, environmental change, and stra

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
A landmark study using community-sourced audio data has revealed that bird song diminished significantly only in areas of near-complete solar coverage during the April 8, 2024, total eclipse. The research, featured in Scientific Reports, marks the first scientific deployment of the Haikubox acoustic monitoring network. Conducted by researchers at Loggerhead Instruments and the K. Lisa Yang

London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
A powerful solar wind surge that dramatically compressed Jupiter's magnetic boundary has been recorded for the first time, revealing unexpected heating effects across the gas giant's upper atmosphere. University of Reading researchers uncovered this 2017 event in which a dense solar wind stream slammed into Jupiter, crushing its magnetosphere and generating a superheated zone across half t

Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated scientists and invited speculation on whether lifeforms might lurk beneath the moon's thick, hazy atmosphere. An international team of researchers co-led by Antonin Affholder at the U of A Department of Ecolog

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Body Text: Researchers at Portland State University have demonstrated that signs of microbial life can be consistently detected across a variety of Earth's most extreme habitats, findings that may shape future extraterrestrial life detection strategies. The team used digital holographic microscopy (DHM) to study samples in situ from remote locations, including deserts, Arctic regions, and alkali

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
What if future planetary surveys yield no evidence of life beyond Earth? A research team led by physicist Dr. Daniel Angerhausen from ETH Zurich's Exoplanets and Habitability Group, working in collaboration with the SETI Institute, has explored this very possibility. Their new study, published in The Astronomical Journal under the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, uses Bay

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
BODY TEXT: What if, after decades of scanning the cosmos with cutting-edge telescopes, we still detect no signs of extraterrestrial life? A new study led by researchers at ETH Zurich, including SETI Institute affiliate Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, explores this possibility and argues that such null results can still offer profound insights. Using Bayesian statistical methods, the researchers aimed to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a prominent developer of space infrastructure, has entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding with ispace technologies-U.S., inc. (ispace-U.S.), an American company focused on cis-lunar transportation and infrastructure, to jointly pursue commercial lunar exploration and scientific missions. The announcement was made during the 40th Space Symposium.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided critical new data on asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming that this near-Earth object poses no significant risk of impact in 2032 or the foreseeable future. The Webb Director's Discretionary Time program enabled principal investigator Andy Rivkin of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to gather a comprehensive dataset on the aster