Growing Homes On Mars: TAMU Research Pioneers Autonomous Construction Using Synthetic Lichens
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
Desert lichen offers new evidence for the possibility of life on other planets
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
Perseverance reveals clay minerals and sets distance record in Martian exploration
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
Halogen clues shed light on lunar crust evolution
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
James Webb reveals sub-Saturn mass exoplanet in young star system
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
New exoplanet discovery reveals rare gas giant through global citizen science effort
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
Muon Space Expands Earth Imaging Capabilities with Launch of Hydrosat Thermal Mission
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
EU's Space Act would track space objects and clear satellite debris
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:46
First ‘FireSat’ satellite delivers thermal images
Thursday, 26 June 2025 10:00
The satellite, built by the California-based startup Muon Space, launched March 14 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-13.
Watch MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch live
Thursday, 26 June 2025 09:31
The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission are ready for liftoff at Cape Canaveral in Florida, US. Live coverage of this launch will be shown on ESA WebTV, not earlier than Tuesday, 1 July.
Earth tones on Mars
Thursday, 26 June 2025 08:00
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured a swirl of colour on the Red Planet, with yellows and rust-oranges meeting deep reds and browns. Lurking within this martian palette are not one but four dust devils, each snaking their way across the surface.
Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transformation
Thursday, 26 June 2025 07:30
At ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on the South American Gran Chaco – one of the world’s most endangered dry forest ecosystems. These data reveal, in remarkable clarity, that fire is the primary driver of widespread, accelerating deforestation across the region.
Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis
Thursday, 26 June 2025 06:54
China could launch a mission involving multiple flybys of asteroid Apophis with a swarm of cubesats when the rocky body approaches Earth in 2029.
Satellite imagery firms escalate warnings over budget cuts
Wednesday, 25 June 2025 19:34
At issue is the Trump administration’s proposal to cut roughly $130 million from the NRO’s commercial imagery procurement budget for fiscal 2026