Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
Fleet Space Technologies, a leader in space-enabled mineral exploration, has announced the acquisition of HiSeis, a premier provider of active seismic exploration technology for the minerals sector. This strategic move strengthens Fleet Space's ability to deliver comprehensive exploration solutions, integrating cutting-edge seismic data acquisition and AI-driven drill targeting through its

London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
A new study highlights that tree planting continues to be the most cost-efficient method for carbon removal, provided careful planning is undertaken regarding tree species and planting locations. Governments globally are committed to increasing forest cover to absorb greenhouse gases, with the UK aiming to plant 30,000 hectares of trees annually until 2050. However, environmental economist

Houston TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems. The study, published in Ecology and led by Volker Rudolf, revealed that rising temperatures exacerbate competition within populations, ultimately leading to population crashes at higher temperatures

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2025
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 24 hours after poor weather and a technical issue scrubbed both missions. NASA's new space telescope, the SPHEREx observatory, will map the sky on a two-year course over Earth's poles, while four small satellites in the PUNCH mission will study

Washington (AFP) Mar 12, 2025
A routine crew rotation at the International Space Station has taken on unusual significance: It paves the way for a pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months to finally come home. The NASA-SpaceX Crew-10 mission is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:48 PM (2348 GMT) on Wednesday. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a Crew Dragon capsule with a four-member

Washington (AFP) Mar 12, 2025
NASA announced Tuesday the dismissal of its chief scientist and others to comply with orders from President Donald Trump, marking the latest in a series of administration actions undermining climate change research. While the move affects only 23 people, a spokeswoman indicated more cuts are coming. The first round notably eliminates the Office of the Chief Scientist, led by Katherine Ca

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On 12 March 2025 ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft’s trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip by months and saving substantial fuel.

This is a simulation of that flyby, with closest approach to Martian moon Deimos taking place at 12:07 GMT and Mars occurring at 12:51 GMT. It was made using SPICE (Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events) software. Produced by a team at ESA’s ESAC European Space Astronomy Centre, this SPICE visualisation is used to plan instrument acquisitions during Hera’s

The European Space Agency has unveiled the ESA Space HPC, a new resource for space in Europe. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher was joined by ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun and ASI president Teodoro Valente to cut the ribbon at ESA’s establishment in Italy, ESRIN.  

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Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats – Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary – Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact risk to planet Earth.

In September 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft tested if it was possible to divert an asteroid by giving it a shove – and found out that it was! Important knowledge, should we wish to avoid going the same way as the dinosaurs. Astronomers can observe from afar how the smaller

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