Space Exploration 9 August 2025 - 27 January 2026

PodcastOne Stock Nears 52-Week High After Insider Buy — What’s Moving PODC Now
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PodcastOne Stock Nears 52-Week High After Insider Buy — What’s Moving PODC Now

PodcastOne Inc shares were quoted just above Tuesday’s close in early pre-market trading on Wednesday, holding near a 52-week high — the stock’s highest price in the past year — after a director disclosed a share purchase. The Nasdaq-listed podcast network closed Tuesday at $4.76, up 6.25%, and was quoted at $4.78 in pre-market trade, which is trading before the regular exchange session. The shares touched $5.07 on Tuesday, also listed as the 52-week high. Google Finance put the company’s stock market value at about $129 million.
May 27, 2026
AI tool AnomalyMatch combs Hubble archive, flags 1,300 cosmic anomalies — NASA, ESA
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AI tool AnomalyMatch combs Hubble archive, flags 1,300 cosmic anomalies — NASA, ESA

NASA reported Tuesday that researchers deploying an AI tool called AnomalyMatch sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive, identifying over 1,300 unusual objects. The European Space Agency noted that more than 800 of these anomalies haven’t appeared in any scientific papers before. https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/ai-unlocks-hundreds-of-cosmic-anomalies-in-hubble-archive/?utm_source=chatgpt.com The agencies described the outcome as tackling a straightforward issue: experts simply can’t sift through the flood of telescope data image by image. They added that even citizen-science projects fall short when dealing with archives as massive as Hubble’s.
January 27, 2026
Europa’s ‘sinking ice’ may be feeding its hidden ocean with life-ready chemicals, study says
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Europa’s ‘sinking ice’ may be feeding its hidden ocean with life-ready chemicals, study says

A new modeling study reveals that salty ice patches on Jupiter’s moon Europa might break off and sink through its ice shell, ferrying oxidants and other chemicals down to the ocean below — possibly creating a route for life-supporting ingredients. https://www.gadgets360.com/science/news/europa-s-ice-drips-may-feed-its-hidden-ocean-with-life-supporting-nutrients-10877761 This is significant since Europa is among the best bets in the solar system to hunt for life beyond Earth. It holds more liquid water beneath its icy shell than all Earth’s oceans together. Jupiter’s radiation creates compounds on the surface that microbes might exploit, but scientists have wrestled with how those surface materials could reach the ocean below. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260122073620.htm
January 25, 2026
Webb catches a baby Sun-like star making crystals — and blasting them toward comet territory
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Webb catches a baby Sun-like star making crystals — and blasting them toward comet territory

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected heat-formed crystals close to a young star similar to our Sun and found evidence these crystals are drifting toward the chilly edges of its planet-forming disk, shedding fresh light on the comet mystery. Crystalline silicates require intense heat to form, but comets in our solar system mostly linger in frigid zones far from the Sun. This new research links the crystals to the scorching inner region of a young system and to winds capable of pushing them outward—an essential piece for models explaining the mix of hot and cold materials.
January 22, 2026
NASA’s TESS pauses planet hunt to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as a rare alignment hits
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NASA’s TESS pauses planet hunt to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as a rare alignment hits

NASA has shifted its planet-hunting satellite TESS to focus on a special observation of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pausing its usual star survey for exoplanet searches. The updated schedule reveals TESS will point along the solar system’s ecliptic from Jan. 15-22, then pick up again with its Sector 99 campaign. The timing is crucial since a recent paper predicted 3I/ATLAS would line up within less than a degree of the Earth-Sun axis this Thursday—a configuration called near-opposition. At such tiny viewing angles, dust can produce an “opposition surge,” a nonlinear brightness spike caused by the way light scatters off particles.
January 22, 2026
NASA interrupts TESS survey to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as SPHEREx spots stronger gases
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NASA interrupts TESS survey to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as SPHEREx spots stronger gases

NASA has retasked its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to run a special observation of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, temporarily interrupting its Sector 99 schedule, the agency said. The Jan. 15–22 pointing will deliver continuous photometry — precise brightness measurements — and NASA said the data will be calibrated and publicly archived with no proprietary period. The move reflects a short window. NASA says 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object — after 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov — and its hyperbolic track means it will not stay bound to the sun. It poses no danger to Earth and should remain observable with a small telescope into spring, NASA says.
January 21, 2026
SpaceX fires off secret NROL-105 launch, kicking off 2026 U.S. spy-satellite missions
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SpaceX fires off secret NROL-105 launch, kicking off 2026 U.S. spy-satellite missions

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif., Jan. 18, 2026, 03:27 PST SpaceX kicked off a classified mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office late Friday, lofting the NROL-105 payload into orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. After deploying the national security satellite, the Falcon 9 booster touched down at Landing Zone 4. The agency described this launch as the 12th in support of its proliferated architecture.
January 18, 2026
Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (15 November 2025): ESA Path Update, Tail Revival, Radio Signals and Alien Claims Explained
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Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (15 November 2025): ESA Path Update, Tail Revival, Radio Signals and Alien Claims Explained

Updated: 15 November 2025 The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is back in our morning sky and back in the headlines. On 15 November 2025, new images, refined orbital calculations and fresh commentary have sharpened our picture of this rare visitor from another star system — while also fuelling yet another round of “is it aliens?” speculation.
November 15, 2025
Sabotaged Cables, SpaceX’s $17 B Spectrum Bet & 5G/6G Leaps – Global Mobile Internet Roundup (Sept 9–10, 2025)
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Sabotaged Cables, SpaceX’s $17 B Spectrum Bet & 5G/6G Leaps – Global Mobile Internet Roundup (Sept 9–10, 2025)

A sudden undersea fiber break has wreaked havoc on internet traffic between Europe, the Middle East and Asia. On Sept 7, monitors detected that two critical submarine cables – SEA-ME-WE 4 and IMEWE – were cut near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ts2.tech. The impact was felt across continents: data slowed to a crawl or stopped entirely in countries including India, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE ts2.tech. Major Gulf ISPs like Etisalat and Du experienced nationwide slowdowns, and millions of users saw sluggish or lost connectivity as traffic scrambled to re-route ts2.tech ts2.tech. Even Microsoft sounded the alarm, warning Azure cloud customers of increased latency due to “multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” forcing data onto longer paths
September 10, 2025
Cosmic Gold Rush
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Cosmic Gold Rush: Inside the 2025 Race to Harvest Asteroid Riches

Is the first trillionaire going to be an asteroid miner? Many believe so – even a U.S. senator famously predicted “the world’s first trillionaire will be made in space.” cruz.senate.gov The reason: asteroids are loaded with precious resources. A single metal-rich asteroid like 16 Psyche, now being explored by NASA, has been speculatively valued at $10,000 quadrillion – far more than the entire global economy earth.com. These space rocks contain abundant metals and even water ice that could be turned into rocket fuel. In theory, a small asteroid might hold more platinum than has ever been mined on Earth. No wonder asteroid mining is dubbed the “cosmic gold rush.” Not long ago, asteroid mining was pure science fiction. But today
August 19, 2025
Asteroid Classifications and Their Mining Potential
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Asteroid Minerals: Mining C-Type, S-Type & M-Type Space Rocks Worth Trillions

Asteroid mining is often touted as the next gold rush in space, with experts predicting it could birth the first trillionaire phys.org. Thousands of asteroids orbit near Earth, many laden with water, metals, and minerals that could revolutionize industries. This comprehensive report explores the types of asteroids most relevant to mining – C-type, S-type, M-type – their composition and economic potential, how scientists identify these space rocks, the major players driving the asteroid mining race, and the latest developments in this emerging frontier. We’ll also examine expert projections on when asteroid mining might become reality and what it means for our future. Not all asteroids are created equal. Astronomers classify asteroids by their composition and spectral properties into several types,
August 17, 2025
Satellites Powered by Water
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Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight

Imagine a future where satellites are propelled not by toxic fuels or rare gases, but by plain old water. It might sound like science fiction, but water-powered satellite drives are rapidly becoming a reality. These novel propulsion systems use H₂O as a propellant – either blasting out superheated steam or breaking water into hydrogen and oxygen for combustion – to maneuver spacecraft in orbit. The appeal is clear: water is cheap, abundant, green, and far safer to handle than traditional rocket fuels esa.int, nasa.gov. As retired astronaut Chris Hadfield put it, being able to propel spacecraft with nothing more than solar energy and distilled water is “a great freedom,” especially since water is widely available in space spaceref.com. In this
August 16, 2025
Asteroid Mining
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The New Gold Rush: How Asteroid Mining Could Create Trillionaires and Change Earth’s Future (2025 Update)

Imagine a rock in space worth more than the entire global economy. It sounds like science fiction, but remote asteroid mining – using robotic spacecraft to extract valuable resources from asteroids – is fast moving from fantasy toward reality. Enthusiasts call it the next gold rush in space, with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson famously predicting that “the first trillionaire... will be the person who mines asteroids.” brainyquote.com While that may be hyperbole, the excitement is real: asteroids are rich in metals like platinum and gold, water ice for fuel, and other materials that could revolutionize industries on Earth and support future space colonies. Here we’ll break down what remote asteroid mining is, why it matters, who’s leading the charge, and
August 14, 2025
Guide to Satellite Earth Monitoring
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Complete Guide to Satellite Earth Monitoring: How Space Tech Is Watching Our Planet Now

Every day, hundreds of eyes in the sky are quietly observing Earth. From high above, satellites track hurricanes forming in the ocean, measure the dwindling ice at the poles, and even count crops growing in fields. This complete guide breaks down how this space-based monitoring works, its evolution over time, and why it matters. We’ll explore the major ways satellite Earth observation is used – from environmental protection and climate change tracking to agriculture, disaster response, urban planning, and national security – and highlight the key players. We’ll also cover the latest developments to show how space technology is watching our planet right now. Satellite Earth monitoring means using satellites orbiting our planet to collect information about Earth’s surface, oceans,
August 10, 2025
How Reusable Rockets Are Revolutionizing Space Travel
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Launch, Land, Repeat: How Reusable Rockets Are Revolutionizing Space Travel

Rocket launches once meant saying goodbye to expensive hardware after a single use. For decades, rockets were treated as disposable – each mission dumping spent boosters and stages into oceans or burning them up in the atmosphere. Today, a radical shift is underway. Reusable rockets – launch vehicles designed to fly, land, and fly again – are transforming the economics and possibilities of space travel. By recovering and refurbishing major rocket components instead of discarding them, companies are driving down launch costs and ramping up launch frequency. This report delves into what reusable rockets are, how they came to be, who’s leading the charge, and why they matter for the economy, the environment, the military, and the future of space
August 9, 2025
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