London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days - and was then repeated a month later. Almost a year later, two scientific studies proposed that the cause of these seismic anomalies were two mega tsunamis which were triggered in a remote East Greenland fjord by two major landslides which occurred due to warming of an unnamed glacier.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) reports receipt of a six-figure expansion of its contract with the Welsh Government. Using Planet's satellite data, the Welsh government is developing data-driven, routine monitoring systems for agriculture, water and land use change, and emergency response. This expanded agreement provides the Welsh Government with Planet's high-resolution SkySat tasking capabil

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Reflect Orbital announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Phase II SBIR contract in the amount of $1.25 million focused on its sunlight on demand satellite reflector technology to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Busi

Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
Technicians removed NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after transferring it from the airlock into the high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IMAP spacecraft arrived at the facility on May 10, coming by truck from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Cent

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025
"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound mystery. The study of exoplanets has become one of the most critical scientific topics of the 21st century, with profound implications for understanding planetary formation, evolution, and the origin

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 5, 2025
One of NASA's top ozone depletion and air pollution scientists, credited with enhancing local air pollution measurement tools and dozens of other climate related research advancements, has died at the age of 80. Dr. Stanley Sander was broadly recognized for his work on research on atmospheric chemistry at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he started his career in 1971. "Stan ma

Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025
Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to make history as only the third private firm - and the first outside the United States - to achieve a controlled arrival on the lunar surface. But "based on the currently ava

Washington (AFP) June 7, 2025
SpaceX's rockets ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Starlink satellite constellation blankets the globe with broadband, and the company is embedded in some of the Pentagon's most sensitive projects, including tracking hypersonic missiles. So when President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to cancel Elon Musk's federal contracts, space watchers snapped to attenti

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