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Europa Clipper’s REASON Radar Aces Mars Flyby, Confirms Ice-Penetrating Performance

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft used a Mars gravity assist on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to successfully test its REason Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding Experiment (REASON). The flyby demonstrated the radar’s ability to probe beneath planetary surfaces—a capability untestable on Earth—paving the way for detailed mapping of Europa’s hidden ocean.

2025-08-04T11:08:33.554284-07:00

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JWST Maps Planetary Nebula Structures and Enhances Hubble Ultra Deep Field Imaging

2025-08-03T14:17:22.901005-07:00

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India’s GSLV Rocket Successfully Deploys $1.5B NASA-ISRO NISAR Earth Radar Satellite

2025-07-30T05:43:45.505224-07:00

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NASA-ISRO’s $1.5B NISAR Earth Radar Satellite to Launch July 30

2025-07-22T05:06:24.500841-07:00

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Redwire Launches SpaceMD to Accelerate Space-Based Medicine and Pharmaceutical R&D Redwire has established SpaceMD, a dedicated subsidiary focused on leveraging microgravity to drive pharmaceutical research and medical development in orbit, supporting preclinical drug screening and protein crystallization studies, and offering tailored experimentation platforms to academic and biopharma partners, underscoring the company’s strategic expansion into space-based biotech.

2025-08-04T13:30:52.995493-07:00

Redwire Launches SpaceMD to Accelerate Space-Based Medicine and Pharmaceutical R&D

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Europa Clipper’s REASON Radar Aces Mars Flyby, Confirms Ice-Penetrating Performance NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft used a Mars gravity assist on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to successfully test its REason Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding Experiment (REASON). The flyby demonstrated the radar’s ability to probe beneath planetary surfaces—a capability untestable on Earth—paving the way for detailed mapping of Europa’s hidden ocean.

2025-08-04T11:08:33.554284-07:00

Europa Clipper’s REASON Radar Aces Mars Flyby, Confirms Ice-Penetrating Performance

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Space hurricanes found to disrupt Earth's magnetosphere and scramble satellites Researchers have confirmed the existence of space hurricanes—persistent cyclonic storms of plasma and charged particles in the polar ionosphere—that can shake Earth's magnetic shield and scramble satellite electronics without any preceding solar storm. The phenomenon unveils a hidden threat to LEO operations and adds complexity to space weather forecasting.

2025-08-04T06:01:04.485311-07:00

Space hurricanes found to disrupt Earth's magnetosphere and scramble satellites

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JWST Maps Planetary Nebula Structures and Enhances Hubble Ultra Deep Field Imaging The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured intricate structures within a planetary nebula and provided complementary observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, revealing finer detail in both stellar remnants and deep-space imaging. These findings advance our understanding of nebular dynamics and inform future JWST survey planning.

2025-08-03T14:17:22.901005-07:00

JWST Maps Planetary Nebula Structures and Enhances Hubble Ultra Deep Field Imaging

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JUICE Hones Life-Detection Sensors during ‘Earthrise’ Crater Flyby During a rare lunar flyby, ESA’s JUICE spacecraft scanned the famous crater immortalized in the ‘Earthrise’ photo to calibrate its spectrometers and imaging instruments. The maneuver refines the probe’s tools ahead of its search for biosignatures on Jupiter’s icy moons.

2025-08-02T09:01:37.606547-07:00

JUICE Hones Life-Detection Sensors during ‘Earthrise’ Crater Flyby

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CNES Launches Call for Lunar Power Station Prototype Under LISE Programme The French space agency CNES has issued a call for proposals to design and build a prototype power station capable of sustaining crewed and robotic operations on the lunar surface. This effort, part of its Lunar Integrated Shelter for Exploration programme, seeks reliable energy solutions for future Moon missions.

2025-08-01T07:59:04.969201-07:00

CNES Launches Call for Lunar Power Station Prototype Under LISE Programme

Universe Today

Study Maps Fetal Risks of Pregnancy in Deep Space and on Mars In a new paper, researchers break down pregnancy into ten sequential stages to assess how microgravity and galactic cosmic rays could affect fetal development during deep-space voyages and on Mars’s surface. Their analysis suggests that radiation exposure poses a greater threat to gestation than weightlessness.

2025-07-30T15:27:46.758800-07:00

Study Maps Fetal Risks of Pregnancy in Deep Space and on Mars

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Study finds Mars’ mid-latitude glaciers are nearly pure water ice A new analysis of radar data suggests that glaciers in Mars’ mid-latitudes consist almost entirely of water ice, with minimal dust content. The finding raises the prospect of in-situ resource utilization for future human missions and informs models of the Red Planet’s climatic history.

2025-07-30T10:05:37.522932-07:00

Study finds Mars’ mid-latitude glaciers are nearly pure water ice

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