China's first reusable rocket, Zhuque-3, successfully reached orbit Wednesday but failed first-stage recovery after appearing to catch fire and crashing near the planned site at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. Designed by Beijing-based LandSpace, the 66-meter tall rocket powered by nine Tianque-12A engines experienced "an anomaly during landing phase," with debris landing on recovery pad edge. The 18-tonne payload capacity stainless steel rocket running on liquid methane and

NordSpace has launched Space Systems Lab and its first dual-use self-funded satellite Terra Nova. Officially launching in 2026, Terra Nova marks a major expansion of NordSpace's technical capabilities and an essential step toward building Canada’s first fully sovereign, end-to-end space missions company. This new division will design, build, and operate advanced spacecraft and mission architectures that complement and strengthen our launch, propulsion, and spaceport initiativ

Credit: Pixel After a decade of painstaking data collection and analysis, an international team of physicists — including researchers from Rutgers University — has overturned a long-standing theory about one of the universe’s most elusive particles. Their breakthrough findings, published in Nature, come from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. MicroBooNE, short for “Micro Booster N

Credit: MIT Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has unveiled a pioneering breakthrough that could reshape the future of cooling technologies for high-performance electronics. The company has developed the world’s first method for generating millimeter-scale liquid flow inside a microchannel using ultra-small microbubbles—each just 10 micrometers in diameter—as the driving force. This innovation emerged from collaborative research with the Suzuki & Namura Laboratory at Kyoto Unive

Credit: Xinhua/Hu Dunhuang A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has produced one of the most detailed and comprehensive maps of natural aging ever created for rhesus monkeys. Reported by China Science Daily, the study examines the aging process across virtually all major organ systems and analyzes it through multiple molecular layers, offering unprecedented insights into how aging unfolds in a primate species cl

Credit: Spacex A cluster of British-designed and built satellites has been successfully deployed into low Earth orbit, enhancing the UK’s capabilities in space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) across defence, security, and civil sectors. The mission represents a major step forward in supporting national resilience against evolving global threats. On 28 November 2025, three Azalea radio frequency (RF) satellites, designed and built by BAE Systems, wer

Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences/ Xinhua Nearly two years after China launched its astronomical satellite Einstein Probe (EP), the mission has unveiled a breathtaking series of transient cosmic events—brief, radiant flashes that light up the universe like celestial fireworks. These discoveries are helping reshape our understanding of some of the most extreme and mysterious physical processes in the cosmos. “Since its launch in January 2024, the Einstein Probe has fundament

Led by Professor Jin Xuan, University of Surrey researchers have published a roadmap in Chem Circularity to combat space industry waste. Their plan for a "circular space economy" advocates for orbital repair stations, debris recycling, and AI-driven sustainability to ensure the future of exploration is clean.

Credit: NASA In a historic first for the International Space Station (ISS), all eight of its docking ports are now fully occupied. This milestone was reached after Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft was reinstalled at the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. With this addition, the station is currently hosting an impressive lineup of visiting vehicles: two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the Cygnus XL, JAXA’s HTV-X1, two Russian Soyuz crew vehicles, and two Progress ca

President Trump issued an Executive Order launching the Genesis Mission, led by the Department of Energy to double American science productivity through AI within a decade. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced Under Secretary Darío Gil will lead the initiative mobilizing 17 National Laboratories and approximately 40,000 DOE scientists, engineers, and technical staff to build a platform connecting supercomputers, AI systems, quantum systems, and scientific instruments, f

China is developing its second space situational awareness constellation, Xingyan (Star Eye), with 156 satellites designed to track orbital objects and provide collision warnings every two hours. Xingtu Cekong, an Anhui-based spin-off of Zhongke Xingtu, plans to launch 12 satellites by 2027 with full operation after 2028, according to chairman Hu Yu. The network will deliver 30-minute updates using AI-powered sensors, following China's Kaiyun-1 launch in September for the 24-

Humanity’s most distant spacecraft Voyager 1 will soon be one light-day away from Earth. This means the Voyager 1 will be so far from home that even light—the fastest thing in the universe—will take 24 hours to travel between Voyager 1 and Earth. Launched in 1977, the spacecraft has spent nearly five decades crossing the outer solar system. Voyager 1 is now drifting through interstellar space, far beyond the Sun’s protective bubble. Reaching a distance of one light-day marks

China’s series of scientific satellites has achieved groundbreaking discoveries across cosmic phenomena, including transient celestial objects, cosmic-ray propagation, and solar eruptions, offering humanity a renewed perspective on the universe. Focusing on fundamental questions such as the origin of the universe, the nature of space weather, and the emergence of life, China plans to launch and operate a series of advanced scientific satellite missions during its 15th Five-Ye

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau—often hailed as Asia’s “water tower”—holds an extraordinary 10 trillion cubic meters of surface water. Scientists say this vast reservoir is becoming increasingly essential for securing the water needs of more than two billion people across the continent. The latest findings, unveiled on Nov 19 in Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang autonomous region, reveal not only the plateau’s growing hydrological importance but also the escalating environmental pre

Every day, our brains transform fleeting impressions, sudden flashes of inspiration, and even painful experiences into lasting memories that shape our sense of self and guide how we navigate the world. But how does the brain decide which experiences are worth remembering—and for how long? A new study reveals that long-term memory is orchestrated by a cascade of molecular timers distributed across multiple brain regions. Using a virtual reality-based behavioral model in mice,

Artificial intelligence can write award-winning essays and diagnose diseases with impressive accuracy, yet in one crucial domain, biological brains still outperform AI: flexibility. Humans effortlessly adapt to new information and unfamiliar challenges—whether learning new software, following a recipe, or picking up a game—while AI systems struggle to adjust on the fly. A new study by Princeton neuroscientists sheds light on why the brain has this edge. The research reveals t

Stars are born in clusters, and these clusters themselves often emerge in pairs or small groups. Among them, binary clusters—pairs of open clusters that are tightly linked in both position and motion—hold particular importance. Their formation preserves the imprint of how stars take shape inside giant molecular clouds, making these cluster pairs valuable tracers of star formation processes and the evolutionary pathways of stellar systems. In a significant advancement for Gala

NASA has revealed that Saturn’s rings appeared to have been disappeared. Although, they aren't actually disappeared. Saturn’s rings look to have been disappeared due to the planet's tilt from the perspective of Earth. But don’t worry – as Saturn continues to rotate, the rings will become visible again From Earth, Saturn's rings can sometime appear to vanish when we see them edge-on during what’s known as a ring-plane crossing. Because the rings are enormous in width yet extr

Princeton University scientists led by Vani Rajendran found that macaques can tap to the beat of human music after metronome training, overturning the vocal-learning hypothesis and suggesting rhythm perception has deeper evolutionary roots.

RMIT University engineers Dr. Jingxuan Zhang and Dr. Mohammad Saberian have created lower-carbon concrete using biochar from spent coffee grounds, achieving 26 percent CO2 reduction and 30 percent strength increase while reducing pressure on natural sand supplies.