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SES to test Cailabs optical ground stations for next generation laser links
SES will evaluate new optical ground stations from France-based Cailabs to move space data using laser rather than radio signals. The company aims to lift throughput, harden link security, and ease congestion across increasingly crowded radio frequency bands by tapping optical communications.
The effort advances space laser links that can reach up to 10 gigabits per second, roughly 100 tim JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries
JUNO, the massive Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China, has officially started recording data, launching a ten-year program to investigate one of the most elusive particles in physics. Supported by an international collaboration that includes the CNRS, the detector aims to reveal how neutrinos influence both the subatomic world and the evolution of the Universe.
Neutrinos are What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems
The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system - and how other distant solar systems might be different from our own.
Even before the comet was discovered in early July, it was hiding among the stars, too faint to be noticeable. In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Jo Practicing for Mars here on Earth
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From supercomputers to wind tunnels: NASA's road to Artemis II
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Themis stands on the launch pad, fully assembled
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Week in images: 15-19 September 2025
Week in images: 15-19 September 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Earth from Space: Komodo Island, Indonesia
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This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia. 85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica
Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica’s icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea level rise.
Thanks to a decade of data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several kilometres under the frozen surface surrounding the South Pole. This increases the number of known active subglacial lakes below Antarctica by more than half to 231.