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Semiconductor startup to fly payloads on Falcon 9 boosters
Space News - 31 Oct 2025 23:15
A startup plans to test technology to produce semiconductors in space on a series of Falcon 9 launches using payloads attached to the rockets booster. The post Semiconductor startup to fly payloads on Falcon 9 boosters a...
Early Hydrogen-Iron Reactions Key to Planetary Habitability
Universe Today - 31 Oct 2025 22:48
How does water form on exoplanets and what could this mean for the search for life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of scientists investigated the pr...
Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full of surprises - an unexpected brightening has scientists baffled
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 21:00
"The reason for 3Is rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar distances, remains unclear."
Kyivstar prepares to expand Starlink Direct to Cell testing across Ukraine
Space News - 31 Oct 2025 20:10
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar said Oct. 31 it is preparing to test SpaceXs Starlink Direct to Cell service across most of the country, excluding border areas, active combat zones and territories occupied by Russian forces. Th...
Satellite images show 'mesovortices' forming around the eye of deadly Hurricane Melissa
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 20:00
Footage from a NOAA satellite taken Oct. 28 shows Melissas deadly spin as it moves across the Caribbean.
The last stop in a literary Grand Tour portrays Pluto the way it really is
Universe Today - 31 Oct 2025 19:19
NASAs New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks - but thats not all: In the latest episode of the Fiction Science podcast, space scientist Les Johnson explains how New Horizons force...
Astronomers capture vast cosmic bat spreading its wings in time for Halloween (photo)
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 19:00
The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane.
For clues to the future of military space, look in the air
Space News - 31 Oct 2025 19:00
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Logistics, from satellite life extension to in-space assembly, will become common elements of future military operations, according to speakers at the MilSat Symposium here. The way the space doma...
Do Black Holes Really Need Singularities?
Universe Today - 31 Oct 2025 18:50
Black holes are usually described as having an event horizon and a singularity, but there are alternative models that don't have these bothersome mathematical paradoxes.
Rise of the Axion
Universe Today - 31 Oct 2025 17:11
So where do we go after years of empty searches for dark matter? We havent learned nothing.
Trick or treat: Here's where to find comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS in the Halloween sky
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 16:46
Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21 and find out if they're a stargazing trick, or a telescopic treat.
'Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 16:03
Scientists are searching for answers in the cosmic mystery of ghost particles known as neutrinos.
China launches Shenzhou 21 astronauts to Tiangong space station for a 6-month stay (video)
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 15:59
Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, is on its way to the Tiangong space station after a Friday (Oct. 31) launch from the Gobi Desert.
Week in images: 27-31 October 2025
ESA - 31 Oct 2025 15:15
Week in images: 27-31 October 2025 Discover our week through the lens
Explore the Milky Way like never before in this stunning new color map (image)
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 14:01
Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail.
NASA rejects Kardashian's claim Moon landing 'didn't happen'
Phys.org - 31 Oct 2025 13:20
NASA hit back on Thursday at reality TV star Kim Kardashian's claim that the 1969 moon landing "didn't happen," a theory consistently debunked over decades.
China is sending astronauts-and mice-on its latest space station mission
Phys.org - 31 Oct 2025 13:00
China said Saturday that it successfully launched the Shenzhou-21 spaceship on a mission to the country's orbiting space station, sending its newest rotation of three astronauts-along with four mice.
Resources, reactors and rivalries will decide the new moon race
Space News - 31 Oct 2025 13:00
A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic advantages that will shape th...
Halloween colors come to Kitt Peak Observatory | Space photo of the day for Oct. 31, 2025
SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2025 12:53
For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Muscle tissue from a 3D printer-produced in zero gravity
Phys.org - 31 Oct 2025 12:47
Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be tested in the future.
Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster
ESA - 31 Oct 2025 12:30
Video: 00:46:03 What began with tragedy ended in triumph. This is the untold story of the European Space Agencys pioneering 25-year Cluster mission to study how invisible solar storms impact Earth's environment.Like ...
Blue Origin test-fires New Glenn ahead of second launch
Space News - 31 Oct 2025 12:09
Blue Origin test-fired its second New Glenn rocket Oct. 30, one of the final milestones before a launch expected in November. The post Blue Origin test-fires New Glenn ahead of second launch appeared first on SpaceNews.