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NASA’s new Moon missions will involve drilling for water below the surface

NASA has awarded $47m to Intuitive Machines of Houston, USA, for the development of a drill and a mass spectrometer, which will be delivered...

New project to apply sustainable space technologies on Earth

International Space Station National Laboratory has collaborated with the World Design Organisation and experts from the University of Greenwich, UK, to apply sustainable space...

Astrophysicists observe the spaghettification of a star

Astrophysicists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have observed the death of a star as it was sucked into a supermassive black hole in...

High-definition images of the Carina Nebula reveal where stars are born

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has captured near-infrared images of the Carina Nebula with the same resolution that is expected of NASA’s Webb...

First UK space census to inform future space policy

The first UK space census launches today to survey the diversity of the UK space sector and help inform future space policy. The census launch...

Revolutionising how we understand star formation in galaxies

Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the birth...

Astrobiologists believe Jupiter may have changed the habitability of Venus

The habitability of Venus was significantly reduced when Jupiter altered its orbit pattern around the Sun during the early stages of its development. Due to...

The first result from ESA’s CHEOPS mission

The results of CHEOPS, the first ESA mission dedicated to characterising known exoplanets, have been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. CHEOPS was developed as part...

NSF awards $17.5m in funding for the Giant Magellan Telescope

National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the GMTO Corporation $17.5m to accelerate the prototyping and testing of powerful optical and infrared technologies for the...

The results of the 2020 ERC Space and Robotics Event

ERIG e.V, a German student association at the Technical University of Braunschweig, is the winner of the sixth edition of the international Mars rover...

Advances of software in space missions

Marina Ruggieri, IEEE Fellow and Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, discusses the transformative nature of the increasing use...

Potential evidence of microbes found in clouds on Venus

The Royal Astronomical Society has today announced that an international team of astronomers have discovered phosphine in the clouds on Venus,suggesting the existence of...

ERC 2020 shows how to persevere in a post-pandemic world

Participants in the 2020 European Rover Challenge (ERC) Martian rover competition are embracing curiosity and seizing opportunity. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across all...

Sustainable innovation – the commercial future of the British space sector

Innovation News Network’s digital editor, Caitlin Magee, spoke to Daniel Smith, the creative director and founder of AstroAgency, about the future of the British...

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