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Space News

  • Private lunar lander from Japan falls silent while attempting a moon touchdown

    A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover Friday and its fate was unknown.

  • NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration

    NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contract aims to empower NASA’s workforce by actively engaging the public to find creative solutions to difficult space exploration challenges […]

  • Auburn Team Wins 2025 NASA Moon and Mars Design Competition

    A team from Auburn University took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for operating on the Moon, Mars and beyond.  Auburn’s project, “Dynamic Ecosystems for Mars Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) Testing, Evaluation, and Reliability […]

  • Largest map of the universe announced revealing 800,000 galaxies, challenging early cosmos theories

    In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built with data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), consists of all the imaging and a catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of cosmic time. And it's been challenging existing notions of the infant universe.

  • NASA Earth Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

    Earth scientist Compton J. Tucker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work creating innovative tools to track the planet’s changing vegetation from space. It’s research that has spanned nearly 50 years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he is a visiting scientist after retiring in March.  […]

Space Industry Jobs

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    Project Coordinator

    The European Southern Observatory · Paranal, Antofagasta, Chile

    As one of the organisational change management projects hosted within ESO's Integrated Operations Programme (IOP), the mission of the project manager is to ensure the successful planning, execution, and completion of IOP projects for ESO's next generation Observatory operations model. The Project Coordinator...

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    AIT Cleanroom Manager

    Surrey Satellite Technology · Guildford, England, United Kingdom

    Key Purpose of Job Responsible for the management and efficient running of the AIT Cleanroom and bridges ensuring that cleanroom areas are set up and maintained to a suitable standard to enable safe working on multiple spacecraft missions. This is a key role in supporting the AIT team to ensure...

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    ESO Studentship Programme Chile 2025/2026

    The European Southern Observatory · Conduct your PhD research at one of the world’s leading observat

    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) offers an exceptional opportunity for PhD students to conduct research in a dynamic and scientifically rich environment. Our Studentship Programme allows students to work at one of the world's leading observatories for a period of a minimum of 6 months and up to two years. ...

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    ESO Studentship Programme Europe 2025/2026

    The European Southern Observatory · Conduct your PhD research at one of the world’s leading observat

    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) offers an exceptional opportunity for PhD students to conduct research in a dynamic and scientifically rich environment. Our Studentship Programme allows students to work at one of the world's leading observatories for a period of one to two years. As the premier...

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    ALMA Development Project Engineer

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    The ADT department implements the ALMA2030 vision as described in the ALMA Development Roadmap, and oversees and financially manages the execution of development projects and studies. It strategically plans the European ALMA development priorities and liaises with ALMA partners, industry, and institutes in Europe....