NASA seeks partners for Earth Science extended missions
Tuesday, 27 January 2026 01:34
SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instruments mounted on the International Space Station and free-flyer missions.
Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space
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Hanwha exploring South Korean defense constellation with MDA Space and Telesat
Monday, 26 January 2026 20:28
South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Systems is partnering with Canada’s MDA Space to explore collaboration on the development of a defense satellite constellation for the Asian nation.
Microgravity rewires microbial metabolism, limiting space-based manufacturing efficiency
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Astranis adds Oman customer to summer GEO launch lineup
Monday, 26 January 2026 15:48
Oman-based industrial conglomerate MB Group has ordered a small geostationary broadband satellite from Astranis that is slated to launch this summer.
Flight engineers give NASA's Dragonfly lift
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New insight into economic outcomes of the US space race
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We need a ‘Planetary Neural Network’ for AI-enabled space infrastructure protection
Monday, 26 January 2026 13:00
ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all
Monday, 26 January 2026 12:27
The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role in regulating the global carbon cycle.
Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor
Monday, 26 January 2026 12:00
Last autumn, the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory hosted three student teams from universities across Europe. After being selected to join the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the students were invited to carry out the experimental part of their research projects in the agency’s test facilities with support and guidance from experts.
Artemis II rollout
Monday, 26 January 2026 09:30
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On 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA's crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years.
At the top of the rocket sits the Orion spacecraft, bearing the ESA and NASA logo and designed to carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme
China prepares offshore test base for reusable liquid rocket launches
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
China is preparing to bring into operation its first offshore platform purpose built for testing, launching and recovering reusable liquid propellant rockets, with the goal of lowering access costs to orbit and expanding commercial launch capacity.
The new facility is located at the Oriental Aerospace Port in Haiyang in east China s Shandong province, currently the country s only dedicated Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bound compartments whose behavior depended mainly on their physical and chemical properties. A new experimental study suggests that subtle differences in membrane composition could have helped these primitive compartments grow, fuse, and hold on to gene Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant star
Monday, 26 January 2026 05:55
Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stage planetary system evolution. Astronomers obtained the observations with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, which is partly funded by the U.S. National Science