(FILES) President of French Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Director,International Space Science Institute, Switzerland Roger Maurice Bonnet addresses an audience at The 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2007 at The Hitex Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad, 26 September 2007. Fifty years after the launch of the first man-made satellite, the global space industry gathers in India next week to find ways to benefit humanity -- and make money in the process. Missions to the moon and Mars, the completion of an international space station and efforts to ward off earth-threatening asteroids and natural disasters through space technology will top the agenda. AFP PHOTO/Noah SEELAM. French astrophysicist Roger-Maurice Bonnet, one of the founding fathers of European space exploration within the European Space Agency (ESA), died on January 19, 2026 at the age of 88, the agency announced on January 21, 2026. (Photo by Noah SEELAM / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs in front of a picture of French physicist and chemist Marie Curie, during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

French pharmacist, biologist and Director of Institut Curie's Research Center Alain Puisieux, poses for photographs during a portrait session in his office, in Paris, on January 21, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

This combination of images shows cover art for "Ancient Light" by Kimberly Blaeser, left, "Bog Queen" by Anna North, center, and "Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. (University of Arizona Press/Bloomsbury Publishing/Spiegel & Grau via AP)