PBS celebrates 25 years of the ISS with NOVA’s ‘Operation Space Station’ on Nov. 5

NOVA’s “Operation Space Station” arrives November on PBS. (Image credit: NOVA) Celebrating the lasting legacy of our planet’s off-world laboratory since it was first inserted into orbit in 2000, NOVA presents a two-part exploration of the venerable International Space Station with “Operation Space Station” on Nov. 5, 2025 and Nov. 12, 2025. This NOVA ProductionContinue Reading

niron-magnetics-receives-$10-million-grant-for-us-permanent-magnet-facility

US-based magnet manufacturer Niron Magnetics has been awarded a $10-million grant from the Minnesota Forward Fund to support the construction of its production site for iron nitride-based rare earth-free permanent magnets in Sartell, Minnesota. The financing will help the company advance the development of Plant 1, a 190,000-square-foot facility. ConstructionContinue Reading

Comet 3I/ATLAS has been transformed by billions of years of space radiation, James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS caught streaking through the solar system on Aug. 27 by the Gemini South telescope in Chile.  (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the ScientistImage Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)) Comet 3I/ATLAS is extremely irradiated from billions ofContinue Reading

The Interplanetary Race to Study Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers were quickly able to determine was only the third known interstellar object to zip through our celestial neighborhood. And that science quickly went interplanetary. In early October, just three months after astronomers first spotted Comet 3I/ATLASContinue Reading