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Astronomy
Chandra, Hubble and Webb Team Up for a 'Red, White and Blue' Universe on America's 250th
To mark America's 250th, NASA fused X-ray, infrared and optical data from Chandra, Webb and Hubble into four patriotic-toned composites — plus sound versions of the cosmos — released June 30 through July 4.
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Stargazing
Sun Unleashes Surprise G3 Storm on July 4th, Pushing Auroras Into Utah and Nevada
A CME from a June 30 X1.1 flare overperformed its forecast, hitting G3 (Strong) and dragging the aurora as far south as Utah, Colorado and Nevada on Independence Day.
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Military Space
Space Force Fields 'Meadowlands' Satellite Jammer, Cutting Deployment Gear by Two-Thirds
The Space Force has operationally accepted Meadowlands, an L3Harris-built jammer that shrinks its satellite-warfare kit from 23 cases to seven while matching the anti-satellite push from China and Russia.
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Science & Discovery
NASA's TESS Spots a Super-Jupiter 40,000 Light-Years Away Using a Trick From Einstein
Astronomers used gravitational microlensing to pull a super-Jupiter called Gaia23bra b out of TESS's archived data — a planet-hunting trick that reaches 260 times farther than the satellite's usual transit method.
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Commercial
Blue Origin Charts a New Path Back to Flight for New Glenn After Pad Explosion
After late-May explosion destroyed a New Glenn being readied to fly NASA's Blue Moon 'Endurance' lander, Blue Origin says it won't rebuild the ruined pad as-is — instead adopting a hybrid horizontal-vertical integration concept at LC-36A and aiming to fly again in 2026.
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Science & Discovery
A New Suspect in the Sun's Hottest Mystery: Charged Cosmic Dust
A University of Alabama in Huntsville study in The Astrophysical Journal proposes that charged dust grains near the Sun reshape the plasma waves carrying energy into the corona, adding a new suspect to the decades-old coronal heating mystery.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA Wants Volunteers to Spend a Year Pretending to Fly to the Moon and Mars
NASA has opened a volunteer call for a roughly yearlong ground analog at Johnson Space Center that, for the first time, fuses its HERA "spacecraft" and CHAPEA "base" into one integrated Moon-and-Mars mission starting no earlier than August 2027.
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Missions
Weather and a Balky Pegasus Keep Katalyst's Swift Rescue Grounded
Katalyst Space's LINK servicing spacecraft, tasked with grappling and reboosting NASA's aging Swift observatory, has been scrubbed three days running — twice for weather and, per follow-up reporting, once when its Pegasus XL failed to deploy.
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Astronomy
The Universe May Be Lopsided: DESI and Euclid Data Challenge Cosmology's Bedrock Assumption
A Nature paper published June 30, 2026 finds galaxies stay aligned into coherent structures across billions of light years — more strongly than Lambda-CDM predicts, and potentially in violation of the cosmological principle.
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Science & Discovery
Sunspot AR4479 Fires an X1 Flare and Ten M-Flares, and NOAA Posts a G2 Watch for the Fourth of July Weekend
Active Region 4479 threw an X1.1 flare and roughly ten M-class flares in a single day, launching a staggered train of Earth-directed CMEs. NOAA issued G1-G2 storm watches for July 3-4, opening a holiday-weekend aurora window that could reach the northern-tier United States.
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Stargazing
Comet 10P/Tempel 2 Brightens to Its Best Since 1967 — What Else to Watch in the July 2026 Sky
A short-period comet is having its best apparition in nearly 60 years, and NASA's July guide pairs it with thin-tilt Saturn rings, a pre-dawn Moon-Mars-Saturn lineup, and prime Milky Way viewing around the July 14 new moon.
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NASA & Agencies
China Refreshes Its Ocean-Watching Fleet: Haiyang-2E Reaches Orbit on the 654th Long March
China orbited the 1,500-kg Haiyang-2E marine-monitoring satellite on a Long March 4B from Jiuquan, replacing the aging HY-2B and rounding out an operational ocean-observation constellation on the family's 654th flight.
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