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20 storiesRussia targets mid-2030s for lunar nuclear power installation
Russia plans to create a nuclear power installation on the Moon by the mid-2030s, Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said. RIA Novosti reported that Rosatom and the Kurchatov Institute are working jointly on the project.
Nobel medicine prize awarded to three scientists for optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-sensitive ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Committee announced in Stockholm. The three sh…
Crew Dragon with Russian cosmonaut Fedyaev undocks from ISS
The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the Crew-12 mission, including Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, undocked from the International Space Station at 15:05 Moscow time on 7 October, according to Roscosmos and SpaceX. The crew spent almost eig…
Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov takes command of ISS from NASA’s Jessica Meir
Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov took command of the International Space Station on 4 October, succeeding NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who handed him a symbolic key during a ceremony broadcast by NASA. Dubrov said the date carried special m…
Trump awards national medals to Musk, Brin, Huang, Su, Nadella and Dell
US President Donald Trump presented national medals for achievements in science and technology to six heads of major US technology companies at a ceremony in Washington on 8 October 2026. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su rec…
Garry Popov, developer of electric rocket engines, dies at 91
Garry Alekseevich Popov, described by Russian outlets as an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the creator of a new generation of electric propulsion engines for spacecraft, has died. TASS said he was 91; RBC, citing the Ros…
South Korea’s Nuri rocket launches with 15 satellites
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off from the Naro space centre at 12:25 local time on 7 October and placed 15 satellites in orbit, including five Neonsat remote-sensing craft and 10 cubesats, KARI said. KASA director Oh Tae-seok said stage…
Nobel chemistry prize goes to Kagan and Soai for asymmetric synthesis work
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan for “the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” The Nobel Committee said their work explained how an …
Forecasters warn of G1–G2 magnetic storms on Earth on 9 October
Russian forecasters say weak to moderate geomagnetic storms, classed G1–G2, may hit Earth on Friday, 9 October, with about 80% probability. The cause is two relatively large plasma clouds from recent M-class solar flares that international …
Medieval silver hoard weighing over 2 kg found in Leningrad Oblast
Russian archaeologists found a medieval hoard of silver items dating from the 10th to 14th centuries at the Tiversky Gorodok site in the Leningrad Oblast, the Ministry of Education and Science said. The hoard weighs more than 2 kg and, by p…
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for asymmetric synthesis work
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to French scientist Henri Kagan and Japanese scientist Kenso Soai for the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, Interfax and Kommersant reported. The …
Magnetic storm that sparked auroras over Russia ends, institutes say
A magnetic storm recorded on Earth on 4 October ended on Monday 5 October, the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute (IKI) and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISZF) said, according to Interfax and iXBT. T…
NASA delays Crew Dragon undocking from ISS to no earlier than 7 October
NASA and SpaceX have postponed the undocking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft of the Crew-12 mission from the International Space Station, TASS, iXBT and Interfax reported. The departure was originally expected on 5 October and is now set for …
SpaceX Cargo Dragon set to launch to ISS no earlier than October 13
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon cargo ship is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than October 13, TASS and RIA Novosti reported. Interfax, citing NASA, said the CRS-35 mission will fly on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch C…
Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for the Apollo programme, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, the American programmer and computer scientist who led software development for the Apollo space programme, has died at the age of 90, RBC, TASS and Meduza reported on 8 October 2026. Meduza reported that she headed a tea…
Sun records M1.0 solar flare, largest in a month
An M1.0 class solar flare was recorded on the Sun, the largest since September 5, according to the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The flare occurred around 22:00 Moscow time, R…
Strong solar flare reported on the Sun, Russian agencies say
A strong solar flare occurred on the Sun, according to Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti. TASS said it was the first strong flare since the beginning of September and was of the penultimate class of power. RIA Novosti describ…
Hong Kong researchers develop yeast-and-gelatin building material for Mars
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a biological building material that could potentially be used to build structures on Mars, made from genetically modified yeast, a gelatin hydrogel and sand or other granular particles. In an experime…
New air analyzer on ISS can detect 35 trace impurities, Roscosmos says
A new instrument has begun operating on the International Space Station that automatically monitors air composition and identifies up to 35 trace impurities, according to Roscosmos and the tech outlet iXBT. The gas analyzer was delivered by…
Starlink urges operators to share orbital data after close approaches
Starlink published onboard camera footage showing other spacecraft passing close to its satellites and called on satellite operators to share orbital data. A senior SpaceX executive presented the footage at the International Astronautical C…