NASA selects two instruments for Artemis IV lunar surface science
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How Spain and Poland pushed Europe’s new priorities with record contributions
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Beyond the horizon: cost-driven strategies for space-based data centers
Monday, 08 December 2025 13:00
As the space industry explores orbital data centers to meet growing demands for sovereignty, resilience and sustainability, one critical lens remains underutilized: cost.
From the Minoans to satellite metrology
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The Minoans were a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization (c. 3100–1100 BC) on Crete and widely regarded as Europe’s earliest advanced culture. They are best known for their impressive palace complexes, most notably Knossos, and for their far-reaching maritime trade, which most likely relied on celestial navigation and a detailed understanding of the constellations. The Minoans recognised a hidden order in the natural world: a force to be respected, yet also harnessed for human benefit. Their era, the Age of Bronze, marked a pivotal moment in the development of human society.
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Musk denies reports of SpaceX seeking $800 billion valuation
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Galileo launch history Study quantifies costs of EU Space Act to European and U.S. companies
Monday, 08 December 2025 11:29
A proposed European Union space law could cost both European and American space companies hundreds of millions of euros in lost revenue annually, according to a new study.
Space tested menstrual cup backs astronaut health on long missions
Monday, 08 December 2025 10:59
Astrobiologist Ligia Coelho and collaborators have shown that a standard silicone menstrual cup can tolerate spaceflight conditions, opening another option for managing menstruation on long-duration missions.
Coelho, a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in Cornell Universitys College of Arts and Sciences and a fellow at the Carl Sagan Institute, leads AstroCup, a volunteer group Quantum fuzzy spacetime may reshape gravity theory
Monday, 08 December 2025 10:59
A team at TU Wien has developed a new way to connect quantum theory with general relativity by quantizing the spacetime metric and analyzing how this affects the paths that particles follow under gravity. Their work focuses on geodesics, the curves that represent the shortest connection between two points in curved spacetime and that underlie most applications of Einstein's theory, such as the o Spire soil data to support conflict early warning in Ethiopias Somali Region
Monday, 08 December 2025 10:59
Spire Global has been selected by GIST Research to supply satellite-derived Soil Moisture Insights for a project that links climate conditions to pastoralist movements and conflict risks in Ethiopias Somali Region. The work feeds into the International Organization for Migrations Transhumance Tracking Tool, which monitors herder routes and is used to anticipate tensions around scarce resources. NASA extends agreement with CASIS for ISS national lab
Monday, 08 December 2025 10:12
NASA has extended an agreement with a nonprofit organization to manage the portion of the International Space Station designated as a national laboratory, likely for the final time.
Martian sound study models acoustic signals in Jezero crater
Monday, 08 December 2025 08:14
Acoustic signals have been important markers during NASA's Mars missions. Measurements of sound can provide information both about Mars itself - such as turbulence in its atmosphere, changes in its temperature, and its surface conditions - and about the movement of the Mars rovers.
Using these sound measurements to the best extent possible requires an accurate understanding of how sound pr Astrobotic lunar surface sensor to track cislunar traffic and security
Monday, 08 December 2025 08:14
Astrobotic has secured a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award to develop Clavius-S, a visible-band imaging sensor designed to detect and track spacecraft in low lunar orbit from the Moon's surface in real time. The modular payload can fly on a range of lunar lander missions and will be integrated into future LunaGrid surface power nodes, creating a networked space domain awarene Methane hint on TRAPPIST 1e seen as likely stellar noise not proof of an atmosphere
Monday, 08 December 2025 08:14
Two recent papers based on James Webb Space Telescope observations describe initial attempts to probe the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of the nearby red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. In a follow-up analysis, University of Arizona planetary scientist Sukrit Ranjan argues that the current evidence is not yet sufficient to confirm that TRAPPIST-1e has an Supernova mixing traced as source of key life elements
Monday, 08 December 2025 08:14
Kyoto University and Meiji University researchers have used the XRISM X-ray satellite to quantify chlorine and potassium in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, addressing a longstanding gap in how the universe produced these life-related elements. The work examines why current stellar models yield only about one-tenth of the chlorine and potassium inferred from observations across the cosmos.