The 2025 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Red de Estudiantes Colombianos en Astronomía (RECA) Educación, a Colombian non-profit network of volunteers that aims to bring science, astronomy and planetary science to schools and communities across Colombia.  RECA Educación representatives Laura Ramirez Galeano and Natalia Oliveros received the prize, which comes with a cash award of €1000, and gave a lecture during the opening ceremony of the joint meeting of Europlanet Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Science (EPSC-DPS2025) in Helsinki.

Origami device fabrication has huge potential in the fields of health, agriculture, and space technology. However, portability of the presently used fabrication devices is a concern and on-site production of three-dimensional (3D) devices remains a challenge. To address this, researchers have developed a portable, multimaterial printer using electrowetting on dielectric technology. This device allows rapid fabrication of 3D devices, eliminating the challenges of the existing technologies and improving the applicability of paper-based devices.

The University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and National Central University (NCU), Taiwan, have announced plans to work together on a broad programme of potential collaborations, identifying areas for future work, including the sharing of space radiation data, collaboration on the design of future instruments to measure it, and the development of resilient space infrastructure. 

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, as well as the resulting emissions. The findings have implications for longstanding questions about the origins of metals and rare earth elements as well as understanding physics in extreme environments.

The civilian GPS signals are vulnerable to spoofing attacks in UAV system. A new on-board algorithm named MSSTP-OAD enables low-cost drones to detect counterfeit GPS positions in real time using only their existing GPS receiver and inertial unit—no extra radios, antennas or ground stations required. Compared to existing LSTM-based algorithms, the proposed method can achieve 98.4 % accuracy, 24 % faster detection and 26 % shorter recovery distance.

High altitude long endurance aircraft, benefitting from excellent aerodynamic performance and dwell time, could suffer aerodynamic and structural nonlinearities during severe environments. These coupled nonlinearities can result in unfavorable aeroelastic responses, posing a potential threat to structural integrity and flight safety. Most studies focused only on aeroelastic systems with isolated structural or aerodynamic nonlinearity. It is necessary to fill this research gap since coupled nonlinearities can cause significantly different aeroelastic signatures that cannot be captured in an isolated nonlinear case.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), characterized by their low cost and operational flexibility, can be utilized to realize the comprehensive spatial coverage for the sixth-generation mobile networks. However, the private data in UAV networks is easy to be exposed due to the line-of-sight links and openness of wireless transmission. Covert communication as an emerging technique has shown its superiority in hiding the transmission behavior to further enhance the security of UAV networks. Therefore, we present a survey on the recent advanced research about covert UAV communications.