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The “rubber duck” comet in 3D: NASA revisits Rosetta’s view of 67P
The October 17 image uses photographs taken in 2015. Here is what stereo vision adds and what is actually new.
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India targets a $45bn space economy: what would make it happen?
A minister outlined a seven-to-eight-year projection. It is a market ambition, not contracts already won.
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Internet across the Caspian: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan launch a 380 km subsea link
The new fibre-optic route offers another path for data traffic between Central Asia and Europe.
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170,000 vehicles in a month: what Kazakhstan's registration figure really means
The statistics bureau's September count tracks registrations, not sales of brand-new cars.
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Kazakhstan now has seven factories making water-saving irrigation equipment
The ministry reports capacity for 3,390 sprinkler machines a year, a figure that must not be mistaken for installations.
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Astana Hub and Ghent University plan an AI and mathematics lab in Kazakhstan
The partners describe research plans at Alem.ai, including adaptive learning and Parkinson’s screening, but the lab is yet to open.
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NASA sharpens Roman telescope optics to a 63-nanometre error
The Wide Field Instrument is performing better than its image-quality requirement after a tiny mirror adjustment.
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India Backs Four AI-Discovered Drug Candidates With ₹86 Crore
India announced an agreement on October 12 to support Peptris Technologies with ₹86 crore. Four AI-discovered drug candidates are to move through preclinical work toward possible trials. The funding supports research; it is not an announcement of approved medicines.
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Tiny Brain Models and Resistant Bacteria: NASA Plans New ISS Research
NASA outlined the science planned for SpaceX’s CRS-35 cargo mission on October 12. Lab-grown brain models, plant studies and faster crew-health tests are among the investigations. These are planned experiments, not completed medical breakthroughs.
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Birds near the runway: how Kazakh airports protect aircraft in autumn
Kazakhstan’s aviation authority has explained how airports detect and deter flocks during migration. Patrols, sound, visual devices and other measures are selected according to the birds and the situation. Autumn migration makes birds an important aviation safety concern. Responding to a Kazinform inquiry, Kazakhstan’s aviation authority described how airports work to prevent aircraft–bird collisions.
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Yandex outage in Kazakhstan: local data servers cannot keep every service online
Following disruptions to ride-hailing and delivery, the ministry says servers holding Kazakh users’ personal data are operating normally. Why does that not guarantee the entire platform will work, and what remains unknown? Yandex service disruptions on October 11 affected users in several countries. In Kazakhstan, the outage prompted questions about the local servers holding personal data.
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NASA’s 15,000-image lunar farside mosaic shows why the Moon’s two faces differ
NASA published a mosaic of the Moon’s farside assembled from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images. A thicker crust may help explain the scarcity of dark lava plains there.
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A cargo ship’s final flight tests heat shields for future space missions
NASA’s KREPE-3 experiment sent 12 small sensor-equipped capsules with a departing Cygnus cargo craft to test different heat-protection materials during atmospheric re-entry. The data may inform future Moon and Mars vehicles, but the experiment is not a crew-ready shield.
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Satellite internet reaches Jinishke: what changes for a village that struggled to make a call?
Jinishke in Kazakhstan’s Almaty Region has been connected to OneWeb satellite internet. Officials say public Wi-Fi now reaches 371 villages. We look at the everyday benefits and the missing speed and reliability data needed to judge the programme.
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Crew-12 returns to Earth after nearly eight months on the ISS: NASA’s photo
Crew Dragon Freedom splashed down off California with four crew members aboard. NASA has published a photograph of the return. NASA published a photograph on 8 October showing Crew Dragon Freedom just before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California. Aboard were NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
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India cites 550 million 5G users and sets a billion-user goal for 2030
At India Mobile Congress, ministers gave new 5G coverage figures. District coverage does not automatically guarantee a good connection everywhere. Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the tenth India Mobile Congress on 8 October. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said India now has 550 million 5G users and service in 99.9% of its administrative districts.
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2026 Chemistry Nobel: why mirror-image molecules matter for medicines
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries in asymmetric synthesis. Their work helps explain how a reaction can favour one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule, a distinction that matters when making compounds for medicines.
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Physics Nobel honours neutrinos caught in Antarctic ice
Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to IceCube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from space. How did South Pole ice become a way to study the universe?
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Telescope under a balloon: NASA tests a way to observe the solar corona
NASA reported the results of a CORSAIR/WASP science-balloon flight on 6 October. The launch took place in New Mexico on 5 October. The test supports a possible long-duration Antarctic observation of the Sun’s corona.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: how light became a switch for neurons
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the Nobel Prize for work that enabled optogenetics. Light-sensitive proteins let researchers control cell activity and test how neural circuits function.
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Before Mars, the Spanish desert: why ESA is testing a rover in Tabernas
The European Space Agency has tested a rover prototype on rocky terrain in Spain’s Tabernas desert. Engineers are checking navigation and remote operating procedures for a future mission. It is preparation for ExoMars, not a Mars landing.