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Stargazing
A Surprise G1 Geomagnetic Storm Lit Up June 25 as a New Sunspot Woke Up
A G1 geomagnetic storm crossed the threshold at 4:43 UTC on June 25, 2026, driven by coronal-hole solar wind and a possible glancing CME, as new sunspot region AR4478 fired most of the day's 16 C-class flares.
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Missions
CRS-34 Dragon Heads Home With Bioprinted Tissue and Cancer-Research Cargo
SpaceX's CRS-34 Dragon undocked from the ISS on June 16 and splashed down off California early June 17, carrying thousands of pounds of finished experiments — bioprinted organ tissue, DNA-inspired cancer materials, cryogenic fuel data and more.
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NASA & Agencies
Behind Closed Doors: ESA's 347th Council Sets the Table for Europe's 2026 Ministerial
ESA's governing Council wrapped its 347th meeting on 16-17 June 2026 with decisions on agency governance, programmes and international partnerships, feeding directly into preparations for the CM26 ministerial later this year.
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Astronomy
A Ghostly Neutrino Leads Astronomers to 'Shadow Blaster,' a Starburst Galaxy 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A 2021 IceCube high-energy neutrino has been traced to JCMT0402-0424, a gravitationally lensed starburst galaxy 11 billion light-years away — the strongest evidence yet that distant dusty star-forming galaxies forge the universe's most elusive particles.
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Science & Discovery
Sub-Neptunes May Be 'Soot Factories' Running on Natural Diesel Engines, JWST Data Suggests
A UChicago team led by a former combustion chemist argues sub-Neptune atmospheres breed PAHs — the soot of diesel exhaust — peaking near 600 K and matching JWST and Hubble's puzzling haze trend.
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Missions
What Artemis II Taught NASA: Real Orion Flight Data Now Shapes the Moon-to-Mars Blueprint
Real Orion flight data from Artemis II is now directly shaping NASA's Moon-to-Mars architecture, as engineers apply lessons from Johnson Space Center's Ion venue to systems that will define how humans reach the Moon — and eventually Mars.
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Commercial
China Schedules Long March 10B Booster Recovery Test in Its Most Direct Challenge to Falcon 9
China has scheduled a Long March 10B launch and booster recovery attempt — Beijing's most ambitious step yet toward domestic reusable launch capability and a structural challenge to SpaceX's Falcon 9.
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Military Space
Congress Eyes $55.5 Billion for Space Force — and the Service Is Already Spending It
The House Appropriations Committee approved $55.5 billion for U.S. Space Force while the service reopens competition for satellite-control antennas — a signal the branch is accelerating ground modernization before the budget is even final.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA's Billion-Dollar Graveyard: How Canceled Exploration Projects Burned the Budget
A new accounting of canceled NASA exploration programs documents billions in combined cost overruns before termination, reigniting pointed questions about project management reform as the agency presses forward with new lunar ambitions.
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Astronomy
TESS Discovers the Puffiest Planets on Record—and They Challenge Everything We Know About Gas Giants
NASA's TESS mission has catalogued TOI-791 b and c, two gas giants orbiting a Sun-like star 1,113 light-years away so inflated relative to their mass that one has the density of cotton candy—shattering records and straining planet-formation theory.
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Commercial
Phones, Meet Space: AST SpaceMobile Lofts Its First Block 2 BlueBirds
A pre-dawn Falcon 9 carried BlueBirds 8, 9 and 10 — AST SpaceMobile's first operational Block 2 satellites, built to beam broadband straight to ordinary 4G and 5G phones — marking the company's pivot from testing toward live direct-to-cell service.
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Missions
Pittsburgh's Moonshot: Astrobotic Unveils Griffin-1 Before Shipping NASA's 'Moon Base 2' Lander to JPL
Astrobotic unveiled its nearly complete Griffin-1 lunar lander — NASA's newly designated 'Moon Base 2' — in Pittsburgh on June 15-16, 2026, before shipping it to JPL for testing ahead of a Q4 2026 Falcon Heavy launch carrying the largest commercial payload ever sent to the Moon.
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