Aeronáutica y espacio

“Parachute science” is failing the tropics, home to more than 80% of insect species

09/09/2026 - Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers...

Giant Greenland iceberg slams into Joe Island and survives

04/09/2026 - A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic’s largest glacier calving event since 2020. The berg later...

Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground

06/09/2026 - Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow...

A mysterious signal around Earth could be dark matter

05/09/2026 - Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically improved limits on...

Spontaneous polarization in chemical vapor–deposited polymer films creates large electric fields

03/09/2026

Satellite images before Nepal disaster showed warning signs

02/09/2026

NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon

01/09/2026 - NASA and SpaceX have delayed Crew-13 after finding an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system during prelaunch preparations. Engineers are investigating the problem before the...

NASA’s Swift telescope is back, but time is running out

01/09/2026 - NASA has brought two of Swift’s telescopes back online after technical problems derailed a commercial mission intended to rescue the aging observatory by raising its orbit. With atmospheric drag...

A thermodynamic framework for mapping elastic recoil mechanism across the human proteome

30/08/2026 - The folding thermodynamics of proteins are dominated by two opposing forces, the loss in backbone entropy and the packing of hydrophobic groups. The same forces are major contributors to the...

AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy

27/08/2026 - Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful...

Trump to award Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II astronauts

24/08/2026 - The Artemis II crew will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor after becoming the first humans in more than 50 years to travel beyond the Moon. Their 10-day Orion mission also carried them...

Global market integration, national security salience, and new product development alliances in aircraft manufacturing

01/11/2026

Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost

23/08/2026 - Scientists have developed an ultrathin coating that could dramatically improve how efficiently heat is transferred during condensation. By turning tiny polymer structures once considered...

A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater

20/08/2026 - A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing...

Neptune’s tiny moons may be the wreckage of shattered ancient worlds

14/08/2026 - JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and...

Scientists turn Starlink into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere

12/08/2026 - Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they...

LQR Design For Formation Flying Near Halo Orbits Exploiting Quasi-Periodic Symmetry In Toroidal Coordinates

- This work presents the design of a Linear Quadratic Regulator for relative motion control near periodic orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP), formulated in non-singular...

Continuous-Time Covariance Steering with Common Free-Final Time: Finite-Horizon Solutions and Infinite-Horizon Limits

- This article studies the optimal common free-final time problem for steering the state covariance of a continuous-time stochastic linear system between prescribed initial and terminal covariance...

Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments

- For autonomous space exploration, robotic agents need to perform motion planning in which environmental interactions may be unknown. Learning these interactions, such as terrain mechanics for wheeled...

You Only Charge Once 2.0 : A End-to-End Analog Computing-in-Memory Architecture with Reconfigurable Switched Capacitors

- Analog Computing-in-Memory (ACiM) accelerates deep neural networks by keeping weights inside memory arrays and executing dot products in the analog domain. However, modern ACiM accelerators are often...

SAR2Agri: Learning SAR Intensity Representations for Agricultural Monitoring

- Agricultural monitoring faces unique challenges, arising from the landscape's complex temporal, phenological, and climate dynamics, yet monitoring them is critical for ensuring food security....