Space Physics Digest

Unusually high niobium levels around white dwarf HS 0209+0832, traced to material expelled during the star's death, combined with TESS-detected...

CATA's two-decade investment in Chilean astronomy capabilities is now delivering concrete industrial applications through a deliberate technology...

International cooperation underpins NASA's core programs, from sustained orbital research to lunar exploration planning.

• ISS legacy: 15 nations and...

Binary fraction among Milky Way field stars rises with decreasing [Fe/H], preserving imprints of natal gas conditions and fragmentation efficiency.

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Farther missions create longer signal delays and larger data volumes that legacy batch pipelines cannot handle.

• Signals from Mars take up to 24...

Bilateral backing positions SaxaVord as a northern hub for polar-orbit launches critical to defence and Earth observation.

• Governments commit to...

A Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg at 12:39 a.m. Saturday will send its booster back to Landing Zone 4 eight minutes later, generating sonic booms that...

Florida Tech students launch a microgravity experiment on NASA's CRS-35 mission to test whether hydrogel can form a flexible, evenly distributed...

SpaceX's USSF-481 delivers a top-secret U.S. Space Force payload into polar orbit aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.

• Mission profile: Likely...

SpaceX now targets Falcon 9 liftoff no earlier than October 10 for SDA's Fourth Tranche 1 mission, with a planned 12:29 a.m. PT launch on October 11.

The composite image from Chandra, JWST, and Hubble captures how massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula violently reshape their birth cloud. Blue X-ray...

NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative opens low-cost pathways for U.S. schools, museums, and nonprofits to fly experiments and tech demos.

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A new DOE Phase II award is directing AI and top-tier supercomputers at lattice QCD calculations, letting researchers automate data analysis, optimize...

Precise muon flux data is essential because cosmic-ray muons can produce neutron recoils that mimic dark-matter signals in underground detectors. The...

Blazar OP 313 is the most distant detected, with gamma rays from 8 billion light-years away revealing a supermassive black hole accelerating...

NASA and SpaceX plan the 35th commercial resupply mission to the ISS, set to launch October 13, 2026, with over 6300 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments.

Francis Halzen’s Nobel recognizes IceCube’s detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, which travel in straight lines from violent cosmic...

A major 2027 workshop will tackle environmental and social sustainability in astronomy beyond discovery, addressing AI-driven big data ecosystems, new...

Wandering black holes displaced by galactic mergers can travel unbound for billions of years, retaining imprints of their host galaxies' past. ASTRID...

World Space Week 2026 spotlights the rocket revolution through reusability gains and surging launches, yet the year's clearest technical advances remain Starship's first orbital flight and the first crewed lunar venture in fifty years.