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New Research: Stage-specific sensitivity and the attribution of altered-gravity responses in Drosophila melanogaster: a critical appraisal of spaceflight and ground-based platforms www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/frspt.​2026.​1971567 #FrontiersIn #SpaceTechnologies

New Research: Editorial: Innovation in medical space technology www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/frspt.​2026.​2030417 #FrontiersIn #SpaceTechnologies

New Research: Short-term solar flare forecasting with a hybrid ConvNeXtV2 and transformer–temporal convolutional network www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1999089 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Shock Detectives: classifying MMS observations of Earth’s magnetosheath via citizen science www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1986629 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: The importance of the stormtime ring current www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1949106 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Detection of the sporadic E layer using crowdsourced WSPR signal reports during the ascending phase of cycle 25 www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1946062 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: The Qianlong XXXV event: a potential benchmark for extreme geomagnetic storms based on historical Chinese auroral archives www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1857812 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Magnetospheric substorm-driven large-amplitude ionospheric bursty prompt penetration electric fields www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1890579 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Disk winds from T Tauri stars - physics and observables www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1943483 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Characterization of thunderstorm-generated travelling ionospheric disturbances by dense GNSS sensors network over Western Europe www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1893553 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Stellar wind driven Alfvén wing dynamics in planetary and exoplanetary magnetospheres www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1909950 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Growth–recovery decoupling in the timing of geomagnetic disturbances across five solar cycles www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1948617 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Multi-height spectropolarimetric signatures of magnetoacoustic waves in solar plage www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1954064 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Remotely profiling the tropospheric absolute humidity using a single ground-based GNSS meteorological station based on an artificial neural network www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1984982 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Artificial intelligence for astrobiology investigations (AI2): an open-source graphical user interface www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1933473 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: A casimir piezoelectric drive (CPD) architecture for supplementary MPD propulsion: a concept study www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/frspt.​2026.​1975023 #FrontiersIn #SpaceTechnologies

New Research: Enhanced precipitable water vapor inversion and rainstorm monitoring based on GNSS PPP regional tropospheric modeling www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1954361 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: A comparison between polyacrylamide and arcillite granules as substrates for space agriculture www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/frspt.​2026.​1899542 #FrontiersIn #SpaceTechnologies

New Research: Properties of the circumstellar matter around the pair-instability supernova candidate SN 2018ibb revealed by its light curve www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1944397 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences

New Research: Crowdsourced aurora observations during geomagnetic superstorms: the Aurorasaurus open science database www.​frontiersin.​org/articles/10.​3389/fspas.​2026.​1883317 #FrontiersIn #AstronomySpaceSciences