Washington DC (SPX) May 06, 2025
Though they don't orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, that have been observed in our galaxy. These small, gassy planets are shrouded in mystery...and often, a lot of haze. Now, by observing exoplanet TOI-421 b, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists understand sub-Neptunes in a way that was not possible pr

Paris, France (SPX) May 06, 2025
Physicists continue to grapple with the elusive singularities believed to reside at the cores of black holes, a concept long regarded as signaling the breakdown of known physical laws. Stefano Liberati, director of IFPU, invokes the Latin phrase "Hic sunt leones" to describe this uncharted territory. The phrase historically marked unexplored regions on maps-an apt metaphor for the unknown physic

Boston MA (SPX) May 06, 2025
MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the "free-range" particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed. Their findings, appearing in the journal Physical Review Letters, will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space. The images were taken us

Washington DC (SPX) May 06, 2025
As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond instead of relying only on supplies shipped from Earth. NASA Ke

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2025
Over the past few weeks, Perseverance has been investigating some curious spherules peppered across the "Witch Hazel Hill" region along the rim of Jezero crater. A striking cluster of the small bubble-shaped stones were first spotted by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Sol 1442 (March 11, 2025) at "Broom Point," in a rock named "St. Pauls Bay." A few sols later, a similar assemblage was discovered by

New Delhi (AFP) May 6, 2025
The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot. "This is where my adventure began," Shivangi Singh, 29, told AFP at the Air Force Museum in New Delhi, recalling her first visit as a child when she "gawked" and "immediately knew that I wanted to become a pilot". W

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 06, 2025
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has announced a mid-May launch window for its upcoming mission supporting multi-launch client Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS). The mission, titled "The Sea God Sees," is set to lift off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand starting May 17, 2025. It will carry a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, QPS-SAR-10, also known as "WADATSUMI-I,"

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher emphasises the importance of cooperation in space activities

Paris, France (SPX) May 05, 2025
Every year, Earth gains mass from the constant bombardment of space debris and meteoritic material. Roughly 50 metric tons of meteorites reach the surface annually, accompanied by even more fine space dust. Since the dawn of the space age, human-made objects have joined this influx, with derelict satellites, discarded rocket parts, and even tools dropped by astronauts periodically plunging back

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 05, 2025
On a simulated lunar landscape, Intuitive Machines has successfully tested the autonomous driving capabilities of its Moon RACER Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) mock-up, marking a major step forward in lunar mobility technology. The achievement comes just over a year after the Moon RACER team received NASA's Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) feasibility assessment contract. This recent mil