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At Trinidad and Tobago's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, the UK acknowledged progress on human trafficking but raised concerns over violence against migrant women and girls, gaps in LGBT+ protections and the death penalty.
A global map of Mars highlights 13 locations whose mineralogy and chemistry resemble Teghaza 001, one of the oldest Martian meteorites found on Earth, with clues pointing to southern highlands.
The European Space Agency has published a video assembled from images taken by Juice's monitoring cameras during its 28 September 2026 gravity assist flyby of Earth, which passed about 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean.
The fifth metal sample printed on the International Space Station has returned to Earth and contains the first thrusters made in orbit, ESA says. German space agency DLR will test them on a vacuum bench.
Work has started to remove an estimated 18,000 tonnes of waste from the Bolton House Road site in Wigan, with the operation expected to finish in spring 2027.
NASA has published a retrospective of Halloween celebrations by crews aboard the International Space Station, from improvised costumes made with materials on board to themed photos from past expeditions.
Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk completed a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk on Oct. 29, 2026, installing and deploying an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array on the 2A power channel, the seventh of eight planned arrays.
A miniature camera on the Trisat-S nanosatellite recorded the Sun as a bright ring with a dark centre, an expected sensor effect the mission team uses as a visual reference for spacecraft orientation and orbit determination.
ESA's Galileo team used Norway's annual Jammertest to carry out the first real-world positioning with Galileo's upcoming Signal Authentication Service, while partners tested receivers against jamming and spoofing on the Arctic island of Andøya.
A reflected-light image of a Teghaza 001 slice was used to determine the age of the rock, which NASA describes as one of the most ancient Martian meteorites found on Earth.
NASA Earth Observatory paired Landsat 9 views of Antarctica's Vega Island from March 2025 and October 2026, showing unusually bare ice in spring that a glaciologist links partly to a warm winter.
NASA issued a Request for Information on Oct. 29 about commercial in-space servicing for the Hubble Space Telescope, including a possible orbit boost, capability upgrades or eventual controlled disposal. Responses are due Nov. 30.
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