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A Framework To Ensure Lunar Resources Are Available To All

Space exploration enthusiasts tend to overlook the regulatory aspects of their desired goals. They focus on technologies and the science we can do with them rather than mundane things like property rights or environmental considerations. However, in the long run, those enthusiasts will have to grapple with all aspects of exploration programs as they begin to affect more and more of the public. With such foresight, various groups have started putting forward ideas for frameworks of how to holistically think about how to utilize the Moon, as that seems the most likely first stepping stone out to the wider solar system. A new paper from Ekaterina Seltikova and her colleagues at the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) and the University of Toronto puts forth one such framework, with a particular focus on how to develop a lunar economy that is open for everyone.

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How Solar Flares Can Change the Weather on Exoplanets

When astronomers search for potentially habitable planets beyond our Solar System, they typically focus on whether these worlds orbit at the right distance from their stars to maintain liquid water. But new research reveals that violent flares and eruptions from host stars may be equally important in determining whether these distant worlds could support life.

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Antarctica is the Perfect Place to Study Snowball Earth

Scientists studying tiny life forms in Antarctica's ice covered ponds have discovered compelling evidence that similar environments could have sheltered complex life during one of Earth's most extreme periods, the so called "Snowball Earth" era.

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A Mission To Collect A Sample From Apophis

The coming of asteroid (99942) Apophis in April 2029 has sparked plenty of discussion both inside and outside the astronomical community. Despite original fears that it would pose a threat, Apophis will safely pass around 32,000 km away from Earth - though admittedly that is still closer than some geostationary communications satellites. That close approach offers a unique opportunity for those interested in asteroid science to take an up-close look at one of these relics of the early solar system, and various groups are planning to do just that. A new paper from Victor Hernandez Megia and his colleagues at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) suggests a new mission that could provide even further insight into the interior of Apophis - by returning part of it to Earth.

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Webb Should Be Able to Detect Exo-Jupiters and Exo-Saturns

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and from that they can infer a lot. But that's not the same as seeing them.

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'Space chocolate,' mango nectar and pierogis: Here are the international foods the private Ax-4 astronauts are flying to the ISS

The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so the food they're carrying up has a very international flavor.

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink 6-61 mission on Oct. 22, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now

Update June 25, 2:17 p.m. EDT: SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time.

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Off-Earth footprint: Florida company will design shoe in space in 2026

Humanity will soon take another step toward establishing an off-Earth economy, if all goes according to plan for the Florida-based shoe company Syntilay.

The final trailer for 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' is here! 'Say the thing!'

With exactly a month to go until the release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the final trailer reveals more Galactus, more Franklin, but no Clobberin' Time... yet.

Ceramics Will Be Critical To the Lunar Economy - But We Don't Know How To Make Them There Yet

Building on the Moon is a challenge we have yet to fully grasp. Plenty of projects have grandiose plans from using blood sweat and tears to create bricks out of regolith to building towers to wirelessly transmit power between isolated locations. However, these projects all but ignore one of the most important types of material we use commonly here on Earth - ceramics. A new paper from Dr. Alex Ellery, an Engineering professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, discusses why ceramics are so critical to the development of the lunar economy, and points to further developments in materials science that must be completed in order to manufacture and utilize them on the surface of the Moon.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.

Webb finds evidence of a lightweight planet around TWA 7

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7.

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Astronomers thought a mysterious radio burst came from deep space. It was actually a dead NASA satellite

A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

Stargazers in Europe spot a strange cloud from SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch

The culprit was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Transporter-14 satellite rideshare mission.

Dwarf galaxy glows red in the Hunting Dogs constellation | Space photo of the day for June 25, 2025

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

The beginning of Ignis Mission

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These are the highlights of the launch on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) of ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland to the International Space Station. The mission is called Ignis.

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With 'Grace': Astronauts name SpaceX's final Dragon crew capsule

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the new capsule, Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson revealed the spacecraft's name.

New moon of June 2025 sees Mercury climb to its highest point in the sky

June's new moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.

Commercial crew blasts off on privately-funded space station research mission

Axiom Space’s fourth flight to the International Space Station got off to a sky-lighting start with blastoff from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now

Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, America’s most experienced space flier, and three rookie crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off on a privately-financed flight to the International Space Station early Wednesday — the fourth non-government mission mounted by Houston-based Axiom Space.

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First sea-level records for coastal community protection

While satellites have revolutionised our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts – where accurate information is most urgently needed. To address this critical gap, ESA’s Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project research team has reprocessed almost two decades of satellite data to establish a pioneering network of ‘virtual’ coastal stations. These stations now provide, for the first time, reliable and consistent sea-level measurements along coastlines. 


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