Projects involving lunar exploration will benefit from the new funding Published by the BBC, 3 December 2025 Scotland's space sector will receive a £4.6m funding boost to accelerate breakthrough technologies, the UK Space Agency has announced. The funding includes a £3.7m sum from the Agency's National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP),
A Long March 3B carrier rocket carrying an experimental satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on December 30, 2021 in Xichang, China. Liu Guoxing / VCG via Getty Images By Martin Belam, Published by The Guardian, 2 December 2025 In today’s newsletter: As suppliers get ready to
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Credit: Svalbard Global Seed Vault By David Stuckenberg, Published by Space News, 20 November 2025 Humanity is losing the genetic diversity that sustains life on Earth at a pace that should alarm every nation. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization,
By Simonetta Di Pippo, Published by Space.com, 15 November 2025 A vital question is whether the moon's water ice be used without some level of appropriation In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra’s song Fly Me to the Moon became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic track was recorded in
By Brett Tingley, Published by Space.com, 13 November 2025 The DARPA program aims to improve the ability to "track potential threats and objects of interest originating from or transiting cislunar space." As the moon becomes the center of the new space race, the United States military is looking for new
ESA’s Vigil spacecraft will watch the sun from the L-5 Lagrange point. Credit: Airbus By Maxwell Zhu, Published by Space News, 4 November 2025 From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed
Artist’s impression of a future Interlune moon mining mission: Interlune By Victor Tangermann, Published by Futurism, 2 November 2025 It could be the key to establish a permanent presence there. The United States and China are caught in a race to return to the Moon. The two superpowers are hoping
An Air Force Research Laboratory Oracle spacecraft, shown in a conceptual illustration, would observe the region near the Moon and potentially beyond. AFRL By Courtney Albon, Published by Air and Space Forces, 22 October 2025 As the gap between U.S. and China’s space capabilities narrows, national security space experts say
