Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-ray burst. The team observed the explosive death of a massive star when the universe was about 730 million years old, placing the event deep in the era of reionisation. The discovery offers a direct vi

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researchers use it to study how stars, planets, galaxies and potential precursors of life form by measuring millimeter and submillimeter radiation from cold molecular clouds. These molecular clouds are interste

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
After nearly two decades in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has logged the 100,000th image of the planet's surface with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The milestone image, acquired on Oct. 7, shows mesas and sand dunes in Syrtis Major, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA's Persevera

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operating as intended. Taken on Nov. 17, months before the start of routine science observations, these first light images also preview the type of data the mission will collect on Earth's outer atmosphere.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Environmental Test Laboratory in Southern California. The same facilities that helped qualify NASA's Voyager spacecraft are now being used to verify that the tall commercial stack can handle the load

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The construction industry, is long reliant on traditional methods, is undergoing a digital revolution. At the forefront of this shift is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the critical domain of cost estimation.

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
A Kinetica 1 rocket has placed the Arab Satellite 813 into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, marking a new phase of cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China in space activities, according to the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites. The satellite, described as a multirole mission platform, was launched from the Gobi Desert site in northwestern China a

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025
The Aerospace Corporation's DiskSat concept introduces a flat, disk-shaped small satellite bus designed to provide more power, surface area, and payload volume than a traditional CubeSat while keeping a standardized, containerized launch interface. A representative DiskSat demonstrator measures about 1 meter in diameter and roughly 2.5 centimeters thick, with an internal volume comparable to a 2