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February 11, 2026
EARTH OBSERVATION
When Earth's magnetic field took its time flipping



Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, and the record of these flips is preserved in rocks and sediments, including those from the ocean floor. These reversals don't happen suddenly, but over several thousand years, where the magnetic field fades and wobbles while the two poles wander and finally settle in the opp ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
Satellite study revises methane loss high in Earth atmosphere
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat efficiently in Earth atmosphere, and scientists estimate that it accounts for about 30 percent of modern global warming despite being less abunda ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
New axis grid links complex earth data in space and time
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
A new axis based grid model illustrates how independent spatial, temporal, and parametric axes can be combined to describe complex earth observation data sets in a single coherent framework. T ... more
FLOATING STEEL
Lockheed Martin debuts Lamprey undersea mission vehicle
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Lockheed Martin has introduced the Lamprey Multi Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle, a new submersible designed to give US and allied naval forces a flexible and persistent presence in contested wa ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
UK backs new electric propulsion hub for satellite engines
London, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
A new electric propulsion laboratory for satellite engines has opened at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, providing UK space companies with access to advanced testing and de ... more
EXO WORLDS
Pressure driven leakage from marine snow feeds deep ocean microbes
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 10, 2026 For many years, scientists viewed the deep ocean as a nutrient poor realm where microbes in the water column scraped by on scarce resources. New research from t ... more
CAR TECH
China space firm tests two seat flying car concept in Chongqing
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
An electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft developed by the ninth academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has completed its first flight in southwest China. The maiden s ... more
TECH SPACE
Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats up
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 5, 2026
Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. ... more
TECH SPACE
Astroscale Japan to mature electric refueling for future GEO servicing
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Astroscale Japan Inc., a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc., has been selected as an implementing organization under the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Space Strategy Fund Program. The compa ... more

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GPS NEWS
China rolls out BeiDou satellite messaging for emergency use
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
China has introduced a new satellite short messaging service that uses the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System to maintain communication when ground-based mobile networks are unavailable. The service ... more
ROBO SPACE
Flexible electronics reshape intelligent robot design
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
With robots taking on more roles in daily life and industry, their evolution toward autonomous intelligence is being held back by rigid electronic hardware that cannot conform to complex, curved bod ... more
TECH SPACE
Momentus and NASA plan joint mission to test orbital servicing technologies
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Momentus Inc. has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA for a new low Earth orbit mission that will test technologies for in-orbit servicing, assembly, and autonomous operations. The collabor ... more
TECH SPACE
NGA taps Vantor for AI change detection from space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Vantor has secured a 5.3 million dollar Luno B contract with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to provide AI powered global change detection services that support NGA mapping and intellige ... more
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NUKE.WIRE
TECH SPACE
ReOrbit and Google Cloud develop orbital space cloud network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration with Google ... more
TECH SPACE
Scaling rules for metamaterials promise better implants and safer devices
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
Metamaterials are engineered composites whose internal architecture, rather than their base substances, governs how they respond to forces and deformation. In these systems, repeating building block ... more
SPACEWAR
Teledyne infrared sensors selected for SDA Tranche 3 tracking layer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Teledyne Technologies has begun production of advanced infrared focal plane modules for the Space Development Agency's Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program, reinforcing the role of commercial suppliers ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Launch to ISS pushed to Thursday over weather: NASA
Washington, United States (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
NASA on Monday delayed by one day the journey of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) over weather conditions. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Voyager wins NASA ISS mission management role through 2030
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Voyager Technologies has secured a new Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity mission management contract from NASA's Johnson Space Center with a ceiling of 24.5 million dollars over four years to ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava cave
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Volcanic activity is a key force shaping the surfaces of rocky planets, and new work from Italy indicates that Venus hosts a giant empty lava tube beneath its surface. Using radar images from NASA's ... more
EXO WORLDS
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 system
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Gas giants are large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium with dense cores but no solid surfaces. Astronomers have long debated how the most massive of these worlds form and where the boun ... more
SATURN DAILY
Enceladus waves shape Saturn space weather
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, generates electromagnetic ripples that stretch more than half a million kilometers through the giant planet's space environment. A new analysis of data from NA ... more
IRON AND ICE
Amino acids in Bennu asteroid hint at icy radioactive origin
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Amino acids discovered in samples from the Bennu asteroid may have formed in an icy, radioactive environment in the early solar system, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The fi ... more
MOON DAILY
The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
New York NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2026
When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race tha ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Firefly prepares Alpha Flight 7 stairway to seven mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2026
Firefly Aerospace is preparing its next Alpha rocket mission, Flight 7 Stairway to Seven, as a dedicated return-to-flight test from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. ... more
TECH SPACE
Abundant element alloy enables rare earth free cryogenic cooling
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of ab ... more
ROBO SPACE
Shenzhen district powers dense robot innovation ecosystem
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Nanshan district in Shenzhen has built one of the densest hardware and robotics clusters on the planet, centered on a 10-kilometer stretch of Liuxian Avenue known locally as Robot Valley that packs ... more
EARLY EARTH
Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate story
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
New research from Australian and Chinese scientists is filling key gaps in the evolutionary story of some of the oldest fishes on Earth, including early lungfishes closely related to land vertebrate ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosp ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year. Launc ... more
WOOD PILE
Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 c ... more
SOLAR DAILY
From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On? during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026 ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Global partners advance plans to harden submarine cable networks
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Governments, industry representatives and international organizations from over 70 countries have agreed on new guidance to strengthen the resilience of submarine telecommunications cables at the In ... more
CHIP TECH
Ultra thin metasurface chip turns infrared into steerable visible beams
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The development of compact devices that can precisely control light is central to future systems for sensing, communications and computing. Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the ... more
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