Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
Researchers from Monash University's School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment have uncovered evidence suggesting that Earth may have once had a ring system around it, dating back 466 million years. This surprising discovery comes from an analysis of asteroid impact craters and points to the existence of a debris ring during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician imp

National Harbor, MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
Though the Space Force is not yet 5-years-old, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, told a large audience of Guardians and Airmen Sept. 17 that the nation's youngest military service must continue evolving, adapting and innovating. "What we were is not what we must become, and so our only choice is to transform ourselves to thrive in this new environment, optimized for Great Pow

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 19, 2024
A team of international astronomers, including members from the University of Geneva, NCCR PlanetS, and the Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), has discovered the "Neptunian Ridge," a newly recognized feature in the distribution of exoplanets. This finding offers fresh insights into the Neptunian Desert, a region largely devoid of hot Neptune-like planets, and the Neptunian Savanna, where such planet

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has snapped a souvenir of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert in Nevada.

The European Galileo satellite navigation system keeps growing: a new pair of satellites has joined the constellation after a journey on a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 18 September at 00:50 CEST (17 September 18:50 local time).

XRISM revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. Astronomers presented the first scientific results of the new X-ray telescope today, less than a year after the telescope’s launch.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
UTHealth Houston has partnered with The Ocean Corporation to expand its Space Medicine Training Fellowship program. This collaboration introduces an intensive two-week training that focuses on hyperbaric technologies and analog environments similar to those encountered by astronauts during space walks, also known as extravehicular activities (EVAs). The enhanced curriculum aims to provide

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) announced at the World Space Business Week (WSBW) conference in Paris that it has entered into an agreement with Neuraspace to boost its LizzieSat constellation operations. Neuraspace will offer Space Traffic Management (STM) and Launch and Early Operations (LEOP) support, enhancing Sidus Space's capabilities in managing its satellite constellation. "This agreeme

London, UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
A newly released catalogue containing data from millions of distant galaxies, providing distance measurements with an unparalleled level of precision, has been made available today. This large-scale effort was made possible by The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration involving 14 institutions across six countries, including the University of Portsmou

Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io - the most volcanically active location in the solar system - Cornell astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating. "Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes '03, M.Eng. '04, the Jennifer and Albe