Hamburg, Germany (SPX) May 24, 2023
An international research team is employing an innovative approach to detect elusive, extremely light new elementary particles, known as axions or axion-like particles, using the Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) experiment. This groundbreaking experiment leverages twenty-four repurposed superconducting magnets from the HERA accelerator, intense laser beams, precision interferometry, and highly s

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2023
Earth planning date: Monday, May 22, 2023- Curiosity successfully wrapped up the "Ubajara" drill campaign over the weekend with some imaging of the drill tailings. This Monday, we are planning two sols (Mars days) of activities to finish up at Ubajara before driving off in the coming sols. Most targeted science today is focused on bedrock target "Apetina," which is situated on the same block as

Beijing (XNA) May 02, 2023
China's Mars rover Zhurong has provided key observational evidence of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, the warmest regions on the red planet, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances this week. Previous studies found evidence of a large amount of liquid water on early Mars, but dramatic climate changes led to very low pressure and water vapor content, making

San Francisco CA (SPX) May 24, 2023
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced new strategic partnerships with artificial intelligence (AI) analytics providers at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's 2023 GEOINT Symposium. These companies' AI-powered analytics enable object detection and classification services on top of Planet's high-frequency, medium- and high-re

Nagoya, Japan (SPX) May 24, 2023
An international team has used satellite- and ground-based ionospheric observations to demonstrate that an air pressure wave triggered by volcanic eruptions could produce an equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) in the ionosphere, severely disrupting satellite-based communications. Their findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports. The ionosphere is the region of the Earth's upper a

Adelaide, Australia w(SPX) May 24, 2023
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia's leading space research centre, has launched a new research program, 'Maya Nula', to develop Australian satellite Earth Observation (EO) capability with space sensor technology to advance Australia's agriculture industry. The name Maya Nula, which translates to "eyes here, there, everywhere" in the Dharug language of the Eora nation, a

McLean VA (SPX) May 24, 2023
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has announced a key milestone in its long-term constellation resilience and redundancy planning, with the successful launch and deployment of five spare satellites. This launch brings the total number of spare Iridium satellites on orbit to 14. In total, 81 next-generation Iridium satellites were built, and 80 of them have now been deployed. The Iridium

Paris (ESA) May 24, 2023
When ESA's Gaia spacecraft scanned the Scorpius constellation and its ancient globular star cluster Messier 4, it captured something strange: a huge dark blob at the cluster's centre, 800 times more massive than our Sun. It is normal for globular clusters to have dark centres made up of many dead stars. But the mass at the centre of Messier 4 looks different - despite being especially larg

Leeds UK (SPX) May 24, 2023
Academics at the University of Leeds believe they could have found the answer to a long-running mystery behind Jupiter's famous "stripes". Pictures of the planet are characterised by bands of colour, as well as the famous Great Red Spot, but these bands are often seen to move and change - something which scientists have until now not been able to explain. Now thanks to a new discover

Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2023
For the first time, NASA scientists have strong evidence of a polar cyclone on Uranus. By examining radio waves emitted from the ice giant, they detected the phenomenon at the planet's north pole. The findings confirm a broad truth about all planets with substantial atmospheres in our solar system: Whether the planets are composed mainly of rock or gas, their atmospheres show signs of a swirling