The agreement brings “AI pilot” software to space as the Pentagon seeks capabilities for close proximity operations, swarm coordination and defensive satellite maneuvers

When a Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California late Nov.

Nuclear power startup Antares announced a $96 million Series B round Dec.

Is it an insect? A strange fossil? An otherworldly eye, or even a walnut? No, it’s an intriguing kind of martian butterfly spotted by ESA’s Mars Express.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
For the first time in the history of the International Space Station, all eight of its docking ports are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. The visiting vehicles now attached are two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the Cygnus XL cargo ship, JAXA's HTV-X1 cargo vehicle, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew spacecraft,

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
Billions of years ago, rainfall on Mars fed rivers that cut valleys, overtopped crater rims and carved canyons, with some flows likely reaching a northern ocean basin on the planet. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have now organized these fluvial features into large drainage systems, producing the first global inventory of major Martian river basins and identifying 16 larg

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study helium escaping from the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b. The analysis, published in Nature Astronomy, links this large-scale atmospheric escape to the evolution and present-day properties of the planet. A

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have produced the first detailed calculation of how fast time passes on Mars compared with Earth, providing a parameter that future human and robotic missions will need for navigation and communications. They determine that clocks on the Martian surface run on average 477 microseconds faster per Earth day than clocks on Earth, with

Southampton, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
A University of Southampton team has identified a distinct low frequency radio signature that appears when small-scale auroral structures known as auroral beads emerge, providing a new clue to how intense auroral substorms are triggered. Magnetospheric substorms are bursts of activity in Earth's aurora that can rapidly transform faint arcs into bright, dynamic displays stretching across th