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Science & Discovery
China's probe is closing on a tiny asteroid that may — or may not — be a piece of the Moon
Tianwen-2 reaches the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa this month to grab a sample. Just as it arrives, a new study undercuts the leading theory of what the object even is — a reminder that we often visit worlds before we understand them.
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Science & Discovery
Curiosity found the richest haul of organic molecules yet on Mars — and a careful reason not to call it life
A rock the rover drilled in 2020 has yielded the most diverse set of carbon-bearing molecules ever detected on Mars, preserved for billions of years in clay that once held water. It's a tantalizing result — and a case study in scientific restraint.
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Missions
Four years after we punched an asteroid, a spacecraft is arriving to read the bruise
In 2022, NASA's DART probe slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos and changed its orbit. We know it worked — but not precisely why. ESA's Hera reaches the scene in November to turn a one-off stunt into a measured, repeatable technique.
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NASA & Agencies
India is one uncrewed test flight away from joining the human-spaceflight club
ISRO is preparing to fly Gaganyaan-1, the uncrewed shakedown of India's first homegrown crew vehicle, with a humanoid robot aboard. Success would put a crewed flight within reach in 2027 — and make India the fourth nation to launch its own astronauts.
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Astronomy
A monster black hole in an almost empty patch of the early universe is rewriting the origin story
JWST has found a black hole some 50 million times the Sun's mass sitting in a region nearly devoid of stars, a billion years after the Big Bang. It is the most lopsided black-hole-to-host ratio ever seen — and evidence that some black holes were born big.
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Astronomy
NASA's next great observatory is ahead of schedule — and built to see wide, not just deep
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is finished, packed, and now aiming for a launch around the end of August — months early. Its trick isn't sharper vision than Hubble's. It's a field of view about a hundred times larger, and what that does to astronomy.
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Commercial
Rocket Lab's bid to challenge the Falcon 9 is down to a few months — and a few tests
Neutron, Rocket Lab's medium-lift, partially reusable rocket, is targeting its first flight in the last quarter of 2026. A tank failure earlier this year forced a redesign — but a fresh multi-launch deal shows customers are already betting on it.
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Commercial
The first privately owned space station is almost ready — and the clock behind it is the ISS
Vast's Haven-1 is on track to become the first commercial space station in orbit, a single module flying on a Falcon 9. It's a modest first step with an outsized purpose: proving private outposts can exist before the International Space Station comes down in 2030.
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Commercial
New Glenn blew up on the pad. Now NASA is decoupling its Moon plans from Blue Origin's rocket.
A static-fire explosion on 28 May wrecked Blue Origin's launch pad and put its New Glenn rocket on the sidelines. With a Blue Moon lunar lander waiting on that rocket, NASA is quietly rearranging the dependencies in its Artemis architecture.
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NASA & Agencies
A familiar crack: why the station's crew spent an afternoon inside a Dragon
On 5 June the International Space Station's crew suited up and retreated into a docked Crew Dragon as an old leak on the Russian segment worsened. The scare passed within hours — but the fault behind it has resisted six years of repairs.
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Stargazing
Your June 2026 sky: a Venus–Jupiter near-miss, a maybe-meteor-outburst, and the Milky Way's core
A practical month guide to what's worth stepping outside for in June 2026 — a tight planetary conjunction at dusk, a meteor shower that occasionally misbehaves, and the galaxy's bright heart rising in the south.
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Science & Discovery
The universe's hidden scaffolding, mapped in record detail
Using the largest survey JWST has yet undertaken, astronomers placed 164,000 galaxies onto the most detailed map ever made of the cosmic web — the filamentary skeleton along which all structure in the universe is strung.
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