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Possible "superkilonova" exploded not once but twicePasadena CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of expl ... more  
Origami style lunar rover wheel expands to climb steep cavesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 A joint team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST and the Unmanned Exploration Laboratory UEL has developed a transformable airless wheel designed to help small rovers a ... more  
Southern Launch to Host Lux Aeterna Re-Entries South AustraliaSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Southern Launch and Lux Aeterna have signed a contract to conduct orbital re-entries of Lux Aeterna's reusable satellite infrastructure to the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. The partnership ... more  
Proba-3 mission closes gap in inner solar corona monitoringBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Proba-3 has spent its first year in orbit generating more than 50 artificial solar eclipses, giving scientists sustained access to the inner solar corona that previously could only be studied interm ... more |
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Clues to the migration path of hot Jupiters in their orbitsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 The first exoplanet discovered in 1995 was a hot Jupiter, a Jupiter mass planet orbiting its star every few days. Today, models indicate that hot Jupiters form far from their stars, similar to Jupit ... more 
Smart modeling framework targets 6G spectrum chaos in space air and ground networksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 As wireless systems evolve from 5G to 6G, engineers are working toward networks that connect satellites in orbit, airborne platforms such as drones, and dense constellations of ground devices into a ... more  
Search for life should be top science priority for first human landing on Mars report saysLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2025 The search for evidence of past or present life on Mars should be the highest scientific priority for the first human missions to the planet, according to a new report from the National Academies of ... more  
Leonardo DRS space radio completes first secure on orbit data transport testLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Leonardo DRS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRS) has completed the first on-orbit test of its multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography, demonstrating secure satellite data tr ... more |
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NASA Langley begins plume surface interaction tests to support future lunar landingsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2025 NASA's Langley Research Center has begun a new series of plume surface interaction tests aimed at improving understanding of how rocket exhaust interacts with planetary surfaces during landing and a ... more |
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Europa Clipper spectrograph tracks interstellar comet 3I ATLASLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has obtained a key dataset on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the th ... more  
Globalstar Skydio trial validates Band n53 for public safety drone linksLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Globalstar (NASDAQ: GSAT) and Skydio have completed a joint technology trial that demonstrated Skydio X10 drone operations over Globalstar's licensed Band n53 spectrum and the company's XCOM RAN pri ... more 
Sandia centrifuge campaign clears NASA VIPER rover for lunar launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, has cleared a major test campaign at Sandia National Laboratories that is intended to show the 1,000-pound lunar rover can withstand ... more 
Eutelsat Network Solutions to lead global rollout of Intellian OW7MP manpack SATCOM terminalLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Eutelsat Network Solutions and Intellian Technologies have entered a strategic partnership under which Eutelsat Network Solutions will manage the global launch and availability of Intellian Technolo ... more |
PUNCH mission delivers sweeping new view of solar activityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images that place the ... more  |
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Ionospheric gradients tracked in real time to sharpen space weather monitoringTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Accurate, real-time tracking of ionospheric structure is becoming critical for protecting satellite-based navigation and communications, and a new observation framework now directly measures how ele ... more  
ESA reaches new benchmark in autonomous formation flyingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 ESA reports that its Proba-3 mission has achieved autonomous formation flying in orbit with millimetre-level precision. Ian Carnelli, ESA Head of Systems Department, stated: "Proba-3 proves th ... more  
Conventional photon entanglement reveals thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensionsLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, working with Huzhou University in China, have shown that a standard source of entangled photons used in quantum optics carries a r ... more 
Hubble pinpoints asteroid smash ups in nearby Fomalhaut systemBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the brigh ... more |
Webb maps carbon rich atmosphere on distorted pulsar planetBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified an exoplanet with an atmosphere unlike any seen before, orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a pulsar. The object, off ... more 
SPHEREx completes first full sky infrared map of the cosmosLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Launched in March 2025, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky, capturing data in 102 distinct wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but common ... more 
Evolution study finds history and environment shifts can steer species in very different directionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Every living organism must operate in environments that change over time, such as seasonal shifts between heat and cold or alternating years of drought and heavy rain. University of Vermont scientis ... more 
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 December 16, 2025 - Southwest Research Institute's Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has begun r ... more |
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Shenzhou 21 crew complete eight hour spacewalk outside Tiangong stationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 22, 2025 The Shenzhou 21 crew has completed an eight hour extravehicular activity outside China's Tiangong space station, carrying out installation, inspection, and maintenance tasks as part of the mission's ... more 
Trump shifts priority to Moon mission, not MarsWashington, United States (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that he wants to send astronauts back to the Moon as soon as possible, putting eventual Mars missions on the back burner. ... more  
NASA CubeSat puts dual micropropulsion systems through orbital trialLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 NASA and commercial partners are using a small satellite mission called DUPLEX (Dual Propulsion Experiment) to demonstrate new propulsion options for small spacecraft operating in low Earth orbit an ... more 
Galaxy mergers light up fastest growing black holesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 New Euclid satellite observations indicate that collisions between galaxies trigger the most powerful active galactic nuclei in the universe. The results strengthen the link between galaxy mergers a ... more |
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Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global oceanLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Careful reanalysis of measurements gathered more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, likely lacks a vast liquid-water ocean beneath its ice, contrary to earlier interpreta ... more |
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Europe's Ariane 6 rocket puts EU navigation satellites in orbitKourou (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation system on Wednesday after the mission blasted off from French Guiana. ... more  
"Robot, make me a chair" robot-make-me-a-chair-in-six-promptsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools inco ... more  
Sentinel 6B begins sea level mapping campaignWashington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Sentinel-6B has begun returning its first ocean measurements, providing initial maps of sea level across a wide area of the U.S. East Coast and the Atlantic Ocean after its November launch. The U.S. ... more  
Laser experiment proposed to probe quantum nature of gravityBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf have outlined an experiment in which light exchanges discrete packets of energy with gravitational waves, potentially revealing the long-sought qu ... more |
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