Nasa is testing a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled |
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be…
Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: much of its famous red dust formed while the ancient planet was still wet.
From Earth, Mars looks red because a veil of extraordinarily fine dust sits on its surface and hangs…
Isro employees seek clarification from govt over private sector push: What’s behind their anxiety?
India’s space sector is opening up to private companies at a pace not seen before. But inside the…
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture…
German rocket reaches space in European launch first
German startup Isar Aerospace on Saturday (all times local) launched its first rocket into space from a site…
BlackSky develops automated orbital imaging for Gen-3 satellites, targeting emerging space surveillance and awareness missions
BlackSky Technology is advancing automated non-Earth imaging for its Gen-3 satellites, extending the company’s intelligence business into orbital…
Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks up in rare retrograde orbit
HELSINKI — A Chinese satellite launched into an unusual orbit early this year has suffered an apparent fragmentation…
Lunar Occultation of Venus – NASA
On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar…
Uncovered: Mars’ Hidden Moon Reveals Signs of an Ancient Catastrophe
Uncovered: Mars’ Hidden Moon Reveals Signs of an Ancient Catastrophe – Futura-Sciences September 5, 2026 3 min Mars’s…
No telescope needed: September’s night sky is about to put on a show
September brings brilliant Venus, the Harvest Moon, an equinox, and several easy-to-spot celestial sights in the night sky.…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…