Germany Considers Dedicated Launch Facility for its Armed Forces

Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02338-2 Nature staff discuss the young but deadly dinosaur kings, the prowess of ancient Egyptian princesses, and how London is becoming the world’s AI safety capital.

Space startup Interlune revealed a new technology that extracts 99% pure helium-3 from standard Grade A helium. The innovation aims to address immediate shortages on Earth while validating the technology for future lunar harvesting. Seattle-based space startup has been testing its “Cold Capture” technology, which is developed with support from the U.S. Air Force.  “Every…

“This work sets up a good foundation for efficient, fast, accelerated, and low-cost robotics applications. We look forward to expanding our work into the latest world action models, so it has even stronger capabilities as we keep pushing to make physical AI faster,” says Song Han, an associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical…

Today, the Amazon rainforest is revered as one of Earth’s most immaculate wildernesses. Nearly 2,000 years ago, it looked very different. Between around 600 BCE and 850 CE, a civilization known as the Aquiry transformed swaths of southwestern Amazonia, carving enigmatic geometric earthworks into the landscape. Now, a new LIDAR survey suggests that civilization was…

Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraft’s flyby of Mars.  Psyche was traveling from right to left (northeast to southwest on Mars) during the six minutes that it took to acquire the images for this…

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