Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Original Research

Published on 11 Dec 2025

Near ultraviolet transient explorer (NUTEx): a CubeSat-based NUV imaging payload for transient sky surveys

in Astronomical Instrumentation

Shubham Ghatul
Rekhesh Mohan
Jayant Murthy
Margarita Safonova
Praveen Kumar
Maheswar Gopinathan
Shubhangi Jain
S. Mahesh Babu

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1670437

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Review

Published on 11 Dec 2025

Chemical evolution in high-mass star-forming regions

in Astrochemistry

Francesco Fontani
Maria Teresa Beltrán
Anton Vasyunin

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1673021

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Original Research

Published on 10 Dec 2025

A new empirical fit to galaxy rotation curves

in Extragalactic Astronomy

David C. Flynn
Jim Cannaliato

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1680387

1,460 views

Original Research

Accepted on 09 Dec 2025

The Correlations of Energetic-Electron Fluxes in the Earth's Central Plasma Sheet with Solar-Wind Variables and Geomagnetic Indices

in Space Physics

Joseph E Borovsky
Andrei Runov
Jose M Espinoza

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

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Original Research

Accepted on 09 Dec 2025

Gypsum as a Repository of Extinct and Extant Biosignatures at Salar de Pajonales, Northern Chile

in Astrobiology

Cinthya Tebes-Cayo
Cecilia Susana Demergasso Semenzato
Óscar Cabestrero
Maria Esther Sanz-Montero
Guillermo Chong
Daniel Carrizo
Laura Sanchez-Garcia
Victor Parro
Kim Warren-Rhodes
Nathalie Cabrol

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

174 views

Editorial

Published on 09 Dec 2025

Editorial: Impacts of the extreme Gannon geomagnetic storm of May 2024 throughout the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system

in Space Physics

Denny M. Oliveira
Mirko Piersanti
Maria-Theresia Walach
Livia R. Alves
W. Kent Tobiska
Xochitl Blanco-Cano
Katariina Nykyri

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1742847

1,017 views

Original Research

Published on 09 Dec 2025

Genotype selection and microbial partnerships influence chickpea establishment in lunar regolith simulant

in Astrobiology

Jessica Atkin
Hikari Skabelund
Elizabeth Pierson
Shuyang Zhen
George J. Vandemark
Terry Gentry

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1670807

672 views

Review

Accepted on 08 Dec 2025

PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIVING BEINGS: CURRENT STATE, SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES AND (BIO)ETHICAL ISSUES

in Astrobiology

Ricardo Alves Ferreira
Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista
Rafaela Lacerda Pedra Maroca-de-Avelar
Maria Isabel Cristina Batista Mayrink
Eugênio Silva
Felipe Gómez

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

194 views

Original Research

Published on 08 Dec 2025

Spacecraft radio signal polarization calibration

in Low-Temperature Plasma Physics

Elizabeth A. Jensen
Amanda Kepley
David Wexler
Adam Kobelski
Jason E. Kooi
Aahil Valliani
Aidan Cho
Egan Heisey-Grove
Anshu Kumari
Shing F. Fung

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1667369

835 views

Original Research

Accepted on 05 Dec 2025

Quantitative Stratigraphic Volume of Martian Lowlands Using Noachian Crater Statistics: New Bounds on Volcanic Effusion and Flooding Epochs

in Astrobiology

Francesco Salese
Eric Hiatt
Monica Pondrelli
Marc Andre Hesse
Giuseppe Mitri
Matilda Soldano
Alberto Fairén

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

209 views

Mini Review

Accepted on 05 Dec 2025

Hydrogen-Rich to Stripped-Envelope: Observational Continuity and Biases in CCSNe

in Extragalactic Astronomy

Anjasha Gangopadhyay
Priscila J. Pessi

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

165 views

Methods

Published on 05 Dec 2025

Integrating Space Weather into K-5 STEM education through hands-on learning

in Space Physics

Dogacan Su Ozturk

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1723676

699 views

Original Research

Accepted on 03 Dec 2025

A gas-phase "top-down" chemical link between aldehydes and alcohols

in Astrochemistry

Christopher Nelson Shingledecker
German Molpeceres
Deaton Warren
A Mackenzie Flowers
Emma Stanley
Anthony Remijan

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

197 views

Original Research

Published on 03 Dec 2025

Super bolide explosion in the upper atmosphere and possible implications for very low earth orbit satellites: a case study on May 25, 2023

in Space Physics

A. A. Pimenta
O. M. Adebayo
C. M. Wrasse
R. de Jesus
A. M. Santos
P. P. Batista
V. F. Andrioli
P. R. Fagundes
E. A. Kherani
S. A. Savio

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2025.1689801

690 views

Original Research

Accepted on 02 Dec 2025

Ensemble Modeling of Long-term Radiation Belt Dynamics: Accounting for Variability in Radial Diffusion

in Space Physics

Sang-Yun Lee
Weichao Tu
Greg Cunningham
Misa Cowee

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

191 views

Methods

Accepted on 02 Dec 2025

QUBIC: an algorithm for detecting cosmic rays

in Astronomical Instrumentation

Sofia Ferazzoli
Elia Stefano Battistelli
Silvia Masi
Alessandro Coppolecchia
Belen Costanza
Paolo De Bernardis
Giancarlo De Gasperis
Massimo Gervasi
Jean-Christophe Hamilton
Nauhel Miron Granese

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

182 views