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Russia, China close gap with US in space — media
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (186+ words) WASHINGTON, August 26. /TASS/. US leadership in space has weakened, with Russia and China nipping at the country’s heels in the space race, The Washington Post said in an editorial. "The United States has dominated the commercial space industry for so…...
Thermal Anomaly Discovered Below Mars's South Pole
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (269+ words) Researchers have discovered a thermal asymmetry deep beneath the surface throughout Mars's southern hemisphere. Based on gravitational measurements that give clues to the Red Planet's interior structure, Mars's interior southern hemisphere is around 200 to 400 degrees Celsius warmer than the northern…...
Algerian Planetary Scientist Imene Kerraouch Honored With Asteroid Named After Her
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (357+ words) For Dr. Imene Kerraouch, the recognition has an unusually personal dimension. She is a planetary scientist whose career is devoted to studying some of the oldest materials available to researchers: meteorites, primitive astromaterials and samples originating from asteroids. Her work…...
Rainstorms on Titan may be assembling one of life’s earliest structures without liquid water: a 2025 NASA-backed study proposes that splashes from its methane-and-ethane lakes create coated droplets which acquire a second molecular layer as they fall back, forming the same kind of bilayer compartments that preceded Earth’s first cells.
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (1470+ words) A proposed Titan rain-splash mechanism uses two organic-coated interfaces to close a hydrocarbon droplet into a bilayer compartment, but every critical step remains testable. By Life Signs · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit A lake on Titan…...
Mars may be two-faced to its core
6+ hour, 22+ min ago (383+ words) The Red Planet’s global geography of low-lying northern plains and rugged southern highlands seems to have surprisingly deep roots, with profound implications for Mars’s ancient habitability By Jacek Krywko edited by Lee Billings An artist’s concept of an ocean in…...
NASA Launches Moon Plume-Surface Tests
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (83+ words) Mirage News You might also like /power-of-spices-ayurvedic-medicine-in-modern-1054230/Power of Spices: Ayurvedic Medicine in Modern Health /luck-by-design-the-historical-tapestry-of-1064557/Luck by Design: The Historical Tapestry of Lotteries /the-intriguing-science-history-behind-mind-999617/The Intriguing Science & History Behind Mind Control /the-future-of-toys-a-world-beyond-plastic-1033702/The Future of Toys: A World Beyond…...
Interlune Implants Helium into Simulated Moon Dirt, Advancing the Ability to Test Moon-Bound Hardware on Earth
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (466+ words) Aug 26, 2026, 10:30 ET Replicating 15,000 years of lunar exposure in just four hours, this first-of-a-kind commercial capability lets Interlune and the global space resources industry test hardware using material analogous to what it will encounter on the Moon "This demonstration is a…...
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (299+ words) Public Affairs Officer, NASA Langley Research Center EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA…...
Using nuclear waste to power space missions
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (14+ words) Researchers plan to use radioactive isotopes to power systems on a future Mars rover....
Matjiesfontein: A place where the moon soon can talk to the Karoo
11+ hour, 30+ min ago (579+ words) Home » Matjiesfontein: A place where the moon soon can talk to the Karoo Matjiesfontein is helping bring the moon a little closer, with a NASA-linked ground station supporting Artemis missions from the Karoo. Matjiesfontein may look like the sort of…...