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Image credits, by article

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  Moon Rocks Remember Earth's Shield: Chang'e-6 Far-Side Samples Show Our Magnetosphere Slows the Solar Wind

  NASA (ISS Expedition 53, image iss053e023915 — aurora borealis over Canada seen from the International Space Station)

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  Late July 2026: A Fattening Moon, Edge-On Saturn, and a Meteor Shower Fighting the Light

  NASA/Ben Smegelsky

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  The Milky Way Flipped on Its Side: Simulations Tie Our Galaxy's Slow-Spinning Halo to an Ancient Collision

  NASA/CXC/M. Weiss/Ohio State/A. Gupta et al. (via NASA GSFC image archive)

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  America's First In-Orbit Mechanic Is on Its Way to GEO

  NASA/Cory Huston

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  The Sun's Sudden 'Switch-Off': A Hidden Signal That Forecasts the Next Solar Cycle Years in Advance

  NASA/SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

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  This Week's Sky: An Apollo-11 Twin Moon, a Stalling Mercury, and Titan Circling Saturn (July 20-24)

  NASA/JPL (Cassini, PIA09858 "Titan Approaches Saturn")

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  A Fresh Sunspot and an Incoming Coronal-Hole Wind Set Up a G1 Aurora Window for July 21-22

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory

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  Van Gogh in the Sky: How the Dark Energy Camera Painted the Nearest Stellar Nursery

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Spitzer Space Telescope) — Coronet Cluster in Corona Australis

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  America's First Robotic Satellite Mechanic Reaches the Pad

  NASA/Cory Huston

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  SDA's Mesh Grows: Third Tranche 1 Launch Puts 21 York Satellites in Orbit — and All 21 Phone Home

  NASA

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  Mauritius Signs the Artemis Accords, and Talks About the Ocean Instead of the Moon

  Illustrative image of the Artemis program: NASA's Orion spacecraft with the Moon and a distant Earth during Artemis I, Nov. 28, 2022. No photographs of the Mauritius signing ceremony have been released. Photo: NASA (Public Domain)

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  Nickel Isotopes Finally Name the Rock That Killed the Dinosaurs — and It's an Oddball

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (SRTM) — "Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico" (PIA03379)

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  The Space Force Just Tripled Its Commercial Launch Contract Ceiling to $17 Billion

  NASA/Joel Kowsky

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  The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver Is Closed — the Model Was Wrong, Not the Sun

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory (PIA26681)

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  Webb's Next Target Just Got Interesting: A Rocky Habitable-Zone World Is Leaking Helium

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Before the Metal World: Psyche's Mars Flyby Wakes Up Its Instruments

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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  A Confirmation Hearing So Quiet It Was Called a Compliment: Schiess Set to Become Space Force's Third Chief

  NASA/Bill Ingalls

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  India Joins the Private-Orbit Club: Skyroot's Vikram-1 Aces Its Debut

  NASA/Rocket Lab (KSC-20240525-PH-RKL01_0001, PREFIRE-1 launch)

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  Webb Watches Gas Fall From Cluster Scales Into a Black Hole's 800-Light-Year Feeding Disk

  NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

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  The asteroid that wasn't: 1998 SH2 outed as an active comet

  NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) — Comet ISON imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

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  Beta Pictoris d: The Faintest Exoplanet Ever Directly Imaged From Earth

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  A CubeSat That Sniffs for Neutrons: The First Peer-Reviewed Way to Catch a Nuke Hiding in Orbit

  NASA

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  NASA Bolts Starlink Lasers to Orion as Artemis III Becomes a Docking Rehearsal

  NASA

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  Serbia Signs the Artemis Accords, Becoming the 69th Nation — and the Latest to Straddle Two Rival Lunar Camps

  NASA/Joel Kowsky

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  Saltzman's Exit Warning: Orbital Mechanics Will Drag Everyone Into a Space War

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Hunting for Alien Industry in the Ashes of Dead Stars

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Two Landers, Two Philosophies: Inside the Artemis III Rehearsal's Engineering Split

  NASA/SpaceX

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  The Meteorite That Crashed Through a New Jersey Roof Was Carrying Alien Amino Acids

  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Molly Wasser

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  The 3D-Printed Washing Machine Taking On the Geostationary Giants

  NASA/Ben Smegelsky

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  Half the Constellation: SDA Resumes Tranche 1 Satellite Launches After Nine-Month Pause

  NASA/Butch Wilmore

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  The Ceiling Was an Illusion: NASA-Led Study Says Solar Storms Could Hit Earth Harder Than We Thought

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory (Bastille Day Solar Flare and a Coronal Mass Ejection, PIA21836)

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  Washington Weighs a 'Light-Touch' Rulebook for Space Businesses No One Regulates Yet

  NASA/Joel Kowsky

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  Hiding in Plain Sight: Hubble Uncovers Four White Dwarfs Lurking Beside Sun-Like Neighbor Stars

  NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

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  A One-Two Cosmic Punch: Perseverance Finds a 3.9-Billion-Year Impact Record Written Into the Rim of Jezero Crater

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/ESA

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  ISRO Clears Three Critical Gaganyaan Crew Module Safety Tests

  NASA/Jordan Salkin — Orion Crew Module Uprighting System Test at the Space Environments Complex (NASA Glenn Research Center, Armstrong Test Facility)

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  Quiet Sun, Restless Field: Inside NOAA's Latest Space Weather Snapshot

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory (PIA20881, "Magnetic Field Illuminated")

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  Perseverance Crosses the Marathon Mark on Mars — and Leaves Opportunity's Pace in the Dust

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Pentagon's Missile-Tracking Constellation Grows by 36 as SDA Hands Out $1.75 Billion

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center — SpaceX Falcon Heavy STP-2 (Space Test Program-2) liftoff carrying DoD/military satellites from Launch Complex 39A, June 25, 2019

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  The Southern Delta Aquariids Are Warming Up for a Moonlit Late-July Peak

  NASA/Bill Ingalls

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  SpaceX Marks the 600th Flight of a Reused Falcon Booster With a Pre-Dawn Starlink Launch

  NASA/SpaceX (KSC-20250723-PH-SPX01_0008) — Falcon 9 first stage booster lands on Landing Zone 4 following liftoff of NASA's TRACERS mission, July 23, 2025

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  Space and Air Chiefs From 50-Plus Nations Convene in London to Talk Space Warfare and Nuclear Deterrence

  NASA (Johnson Space Center, ID: S81-38291) — Artist concept of satellite in orbit above the earth

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  A Delicate Trio at Dusk: Moon, Venus, and Regulus Share the Sky July 15-17

  NASA/Bill Ingalls

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  Hubble and Webb Team Up to Find Omega Centauri's First Confirmed Black Hole

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/AURA/NSF

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  Fifty Days Up: Shenzhou-23 Crew Deepens Microgravity Research Aboard Tiangong

  NASA/Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA) — Astronaut photographs samples for the Fluids Science Laboratory Soft Matter Dynamics microgravity physics experiment aboard the ISS Columbus laboratory module

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  FAA Closes Starship Flight 12 Mishap Probe, Clears SpaceX for Flight 13

  NASA

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  JWST Finds a "Hot but Cold" Hydrogen Glow Far Out in an Edge-On Planet-Forming Disk

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Predawn Sky Guide: Moon Lines Up With Mars, Saturn and Uranus on July 11-12

  NASA/Bill Ingalls (NHQ202012170001) - The Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter seen after sunset from Washington, DC, Dec. 17, 2020

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  SDA Hands L3Harris and Sierra Space $1.75 Billion to Build 36 Golden Dome Tracking Satellites

  NASA (S90-41340) — Artist concept of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E) system

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  NASA Moves Its Sun-Watching SmallSat Swarm From Vulcan Centaur to Falcon Heavy

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Space Dynamics Laboratory/Allison Bills) — PIA25789

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  China Nets a Falling Rocket at Sea: Long March 10B Pulls Off the First Successful Net-Capture Booster Recovery

  NASA / Kim Shiflett (KSC-2009-2144) — NASA recovery ship Liberty Star tows a spent solid rocket booster to dock at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

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  JWST Rules Out Two 'Alien Megastructure' Candidates — They're Just Background Galaxies

  NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan (PIA26702)

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  India's First Private Orbital Rocket, Skyroot's Vikram-1, Opens Its Launch Window

  NASA/Bill Ingalls — Antares Rocket Test Launch, NASA Wallops Flight Facility (April 21, 2013)

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  Space Force Completes Its Nine-Portfolio Acquisition Overhaul, Citing a 'Wartime Footing'

  NASA / USSF 30th Space Wing / Carlos R. V. — "JPSS-2 Spacecraft Mate to Spacecraft Adapter," Vandenberg Space Force Base

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  Sunspot AR4485 Fires an M1.2 Flare as CMEs Set Up a G1-G2 Storm Watch Through Midweek

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory (PIA21949)

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  The August 2026 Night Sky Guide

  Image: NASA (NHQ202108110005)

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  How Astronomers Measure Cosmic Distances: The Distance Ladder

  Image: NASA/CXC/SAO/Spitzer/NOAO

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  James Webb's Biggest Discoveries So Far

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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  The World's Spaceports: Why Rockets Launch Where They Do

  Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett (KSC-20250115-PH-CSH01_0001)

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  The Total Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026: The Complete Viewing Guide

  Image: NASA/Ken Ulbrich (AFRC2017-0233-005)

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  Vast's Haven-1 in 2026: a 3D-printed space station preparing to host orbital manufacturing

  Image: NASA — astronaut Jeanette Epps works with the Metal 3D Printer aboard the International Space Station

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  Rocket Launch Vehicles Compared: Payload, Cost, and Reusability in 2026

  NASA/John Kraus

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  Euclid Doubles the Known Sample of the Universe's Most Ancient Quasars

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (PIA10093 — "Bursting with Stars and Black Holes," artist concept of a growing black hole/quasar in a faraway galaxy, from NASA's Spitzer and Chandra observations)

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  Beta Pictoris Gains a Third Confirmed World, Joining an Elite Club of Directly Imaged Systems

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Katalyst's LINK Spacecraft Begins Checkouts Ahead of Historic Rescue Docking With NASA's Swift Observatory

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center — Swift spacecraft atop Delta II launch vehicle at Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral (images.nasa.gov, ID: 04pd2344)

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  New Horizons Wakes From Its Longest-Ever Hibernation, 5.9 Billion Miles From Earth

  NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (PIA22190 — "New Horizons Encountering 2014 MU69 (Artist's Impression)")

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  Space Force Adds Relativity Space and Impulse Space to Its National Security Launch Roster

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center — ULA rocket liftoff (KSC-20191220-PH-AWG06_0143)

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  Three Months After Circling the Moon, the Artemis II Crew Comes Home to Kennedy

  NASA / James Blair

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  Inside the Sun's 'Impossible' Thin Layer: NASA's COFFIES Center Cracks the Tachocline Mystery

  NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory (Magnetic Field Lines on the Sun, GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000808)

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  GAO's New Weapon Systems Report: Hypersonic Missiles Are Still Years Behind Schedule

  NASA/Orbital Sciences — X-43A "Hyper-X" hypersonic research vehicle (EC01-0019-18)

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  A Whisper of Radio Waves Pins Down the Distance to a Mysterious Gamma-Ray Halo

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill (NASA Image and Video Library, PIA17566)

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  A Rocket Engine With No Moving Turbopumps Just Landed $91 Million

  NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center

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  Former SpaceX Flight Surgeon Anil Menon Set for First Launch — on a Russian Soyuz

  NASA/Josh Valcarcel

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  A German Space Capsule Startup Just Planted Its Flag Next to NASA Johnson — With a Full-Scale Nyx Crew Mockup

  NASA/Tony Landis (NASA Image and Video Library, ED08-0026-11)

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  Gaia Data Just Killed the 'Universal' Stellar Initial Mass Function

  NASA/GSFC (Hubble Space Telescope) — "Hubble Admires a Youthful Globular Star Cluster"

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  JWST's Rocky Worlds Program Delivers Its First Complete Verdict: GJ 3929 b Is a Bare, Airless Rock

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Senate Sets July 16 Hearing to Confirm Space Force's Next Top General

  NASA/Joel Kowsky

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  Euclid Space Telescope Uncovers the Universe's Most Ancient Quasars

  NASA/ESA (PIA16114 - "Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor" Artist Concept)

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  Roman Space Telescope Stands Up at Kennedy as August 30 Launch Nears

  NASA/John Kraus

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  Sunspot AR4482 Unleashes M-Class Flares, Raising Aurora Odds Into the Weekend

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory

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  Transporter-17: How Two Student-Built CubeSats Hitched a Ride Among 81 Satellites

  NASA — NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) releasing the ExAlta-1 CubeSat from the ISS (JSC, iss051e049985)

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  Webb Telescope Marks Fourth Anniversary by Revealing the Hidden Heart of Centaurus A

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/C.D. Wilson, McMaster University; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC) — "Centaurus A All Prettied Up in Infrared and X-Rays" (PIA15422)

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  A Beta-Gamma-Delta Sunspot Keeps Firing: Radio Blackout Risk Runs Through the Weekend

  NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory (PIA21949)

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  Hidden Jet from a 'Missing-Link' Black Hole Lights Up the Radio Sky

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (PIA22085 — "Black Hole With Jet, Artist's Concept")

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  ispace Buys a Ride on Starship, Betting on SpaceX to Cut the Cost of Reaching the Moon

  NASA/SpaceX — Artist's Concept of SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon

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  ISRO Clears Fifth Parachute Airdrop Test for Gaganyaan's Uncrewed Debut

  NASA

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  Space Force Adds Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to Its $5.6 Billion Launch Roster

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center

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  A 20-Year Argument Over the Bullet Cluster's Mass Just Got Settled — by Webb and a Ground-Based Camera

  NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan

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  The World's First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Just Reached Orbit

  NASA (iss074e0301636) — A trio of CubeSats is deployed into Earth orbit outside the International Space Station's Kibo module, Feb. 3, 2026

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  Firefly Wins $13 Million NASA Contract to Build the Heat Shield for a Helicopter Swarm Bound for Mars

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (PIA24314)

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  Japan and Singapore Sign Their First-Ever Space Pact — and Singapore's Three-Month-Old Space Agency Gets Its Debut Deal

  NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

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  Does the Space Force Need Its Own Lawyers? The Senate Wants an Answer by December 2027

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center

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  Euclid Space Telescope Uncovers 31 Ancient Quasars, Two From the Universe's First 5 Percent

  NASA/ESA — Artist's concept of a quasar (feeding black hole), similar to APM 08279+5255 (PIA16114)

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  CAPSTONE, the Microwave-Sized Pathfinder, Signs Off After Four Years at the Moon

  NASA/Daniel Rutter — "CAPSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise" (Illustration), NASA Image and Video Library, ID ACD22-0003-005

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  July Skies: Earth's Aphelion, a Saturn-Moon Pairing, and Comet Tempel 2 Brightening

  NASA/JPL (PIA00349 – Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color)

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  Mystery Metal Spheres Wash Up on Queensland Beach — Australian Space Agency Says They're Rocket Debris

  NASA/Reed P. Elliott (NASA White Sands Test Facility)

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  SpaceX's Transporter-17 Sends 81 Satellites—Including Three Wildfire-Spotting FireSats—Into Orbit

  NASA/Kim Shiflett (KSC-20190302-PH_RAR01_0027) — SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff

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  JWST Spots the Most Distant Barred Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen, and It's Already Surprisingly Grown-Up

  NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Knezek (WIYN) — Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300

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  Hubble, Chandra, and Webb Team Up for a Red-White-and-Blue Portrait of an Ancient Star Cluster

  ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine

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  A Rocket That's Flown Since 1990 Just Launched a Rescue Mission for a Dying NASA Telescope

  NASA/VAFB (image KSC-07PD-0990, NASA Image and Video Library)

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  X1.3 Flare and Surprise G3 Storm Send Aurora Across 30 US States for July 4th Weekend

  NASA — ISS074-E-0150531, taken from the International Space Station (Jan. 19, 2026), courtesy NASA Image and Video Library

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  The Ultimate Egg-Drop Challenge: A Startup Rides SpaceX's Falcon 9 Boosters to Test Manufacturing Chips in Space

  NASA

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  How Do You Teach an Astronaut to Fall Safely? ISRO Test-Fires the Rocket Built to Find Out

  NASA / SpaceX (NASA Image and Video Library, KSC-20191204-PH-SPX01_0002) - "SpaceX Crew Dragon Mark 3 Parachute Testing"

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  Guardians and Airmen Just Let AI Run Battle Management for the First Time — and It Did Five Jobs at Once

  NASA/Kim Shiflett — Artemis Launch Team Validation Simulation in Firing Room 1, Kennedy Space Center (nasa_id: KSC-20190711-PH_KLS01_0053)

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  Tianwen-2 Reaches Kamoʻoalewa: China's Sample-Return Probe Begins Its Close Study of Earth's Quasi-Moon

  NASA/JPL-Caltech — "Asteroid 2024 PT5's Orbit Around the Sun" (PIA26452)

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  A Warm, Wildly Eccentric Jupiter Just Showed Up in the Gap Where Few Giant Planets Are Found

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  VICTUS HAZE: How a 16-Hour Launch and a 61-Hour Chase Just Rewrote the Rules of Space Warfare

  NASA / Kennedy Space Center (KSC-04pd-2227) — DART spacecraft rendezvous technology demonstrator fairing installation, Vandenberg AFB

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  A New Earth-Sized Neighbor: Astronomers Refine GJ 3378b's Mass in the Habitable Zone

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (TOI 700 Artist's Illustration, PIA23408)

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  Hayabusa2 Threads the Needle: A 5-Kilometer-Per-Second Flyby of Asteroid Torifune

  NASA (PIA21062 - Asteroid Redirect Mission spacecraft conducting a close flyby of its target asteroid, illustrating laser-based proximity operations)

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  Mars and Uranus Just Had Their Closest Meeting Until 2053

  NASA/JPL — "Solar System Montage - High Resolution 2001 Version" (PIA03153)

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  NASA's $30 Million Gambit to Save the Falling Swift Observatory

  NASA / Kennedy Space Center (KSC-04pd2104)

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  In the Land of the Polygons: Curiosity Hunts Nickel-Rich 'Meteorite' Candidates in a Martian Honeycomb

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS — Curiosity Finds a Meteorite, "Cacao" (PIA25737)

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  Webb Catches Baby Stars Feeding in Fits and Starts: New Evidence for Episodic Accretion in FS Tau

  ESA/Hubble & NASA; K. Stapelfeldt (NASA Image and Video Library, potw1853a) — Herbig-Haro jets HH 7-11 from newborn star SVS 13

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  Europe Sets the Media Call for MTG-I2: The Satellite That Will Watch 80% of Earth for Lightning

  NASA/Kim Shiflett (GOES-S Liftoff, KSC-20180301-PH_KLS01_0012)

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  Congress Presses NASA and NOAA on Space Weather Readiness as Solar Cycle 25 Peaks

  NASA/JPL (PIA21958) — Major Solar Flare, colorized extreme ultraviolet imagery, public domain

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  GAO Watchdog: Pentagon Weapons Now Take 12 Years to Deliver, and Space Programs Are Feeling It Too

  NASA/Kim Shiflett (Kennedy Space Center) — GOES-O satellite offloaded from a military C-17 cargo aircraft, KSC-2009-1936

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  An Ultra-Black Coating Could Save Astronomy From 60,000 Satellites

  NASA (nasa_id: 61b-38-036w) — Deployment of the RCA Satcom K-2 communications satellite from Space Shuttle Atlantis, Nov 28 1985

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  Germany Bets on an Unproven Rocket: Planet and Isar Aerospace Sign All-German Launch Deal

  NASA / Rocket Lab (KSC-20240525-PH-RKL01_0006)

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  TESS Just Mapped Rotation Periods for a Million Nearby Stars

  NASA/Kim Shiflett (KSC-20180221-PH_LCH01_0114) — TESS spacecraft with solar panels deployed during processing at Kennedy Space Center

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  X-Ray Light Echoes From Old Gamma-Ray Bursts Show the Milky Way's Arms Are Bigger Than We Thought

  NASA/CXC/UCLA/M. Muno et al. — Chandra X-Ray Observatory composite image of the Milky Way's galactic center

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  JWST Spots Methane on a Planet Orbiting a Dead Star — And It's a Preview of Our Own Solar System's Future

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Robotic Servicer LINK Launches to Rescue NASA's Swift Observatory From Reentry

  NASA/Kim Shiflett (Restore-L hose management assembly testing at Kennedy Space Center)

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  Victus Haze: How the Space Force Just Proved It Can Hunt Satellites on Hours' Notice

  NASA/Butch Wilmore

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  ULA Flies Its Last Atlas V 551 as Amazon Leo Races an FCC Deployment Deadline

  NASA/Bill Ingalls

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  Chandra, Hubble and Webb Team Up for a 'Red, White and Blue' Universe on America's 250th

  NASA, ESA, NRAO/AUI/NSF and G. Dubner (University of Buenos Aires) — composite of Crab Nebula from Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, XMM-Newton, and the Very Large Array

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  Sun Unleashes Surprise G3 Storm on July 4th, Pushing Auroras Into Utah and Nevada

  NASA/Expedition 74 (ISS074-E-0150531) - "A wispy, multi-colored aurora—created by a geomagnetic storm—pictured above the Atlantic Ocean from the International Space Station"

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  Space Force Fields 'Meadowlands' Satellite Jammer, Cutting Deployment Gear by Two-Thirds

  NASA/Vandenberg Air Force Base (Delta II rocket launch, Air Force Space Command, image 03pd0068)

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  NASA's TESS Spots a Super-Jupiter 40,000 Light-Years Away Using a Trick From Einstein

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Blue Origin Charts a New Path Back to Flight for New Glenn After Pad Explosion

  NASA/Blue Origin

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  A New Suspect in the Sun's Hottest Mystery: Charged Cosmic Dust

  NASA/STEREO

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  NASA Wants Volunteers to Spend a Year Pretending to Fly to the Moon and Mars

  NASA/JSC (JETT 5 analog field test, jsc2024e033752)

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  Weather and a Balky Pegasus Keep Katalyst's Swift Rescue Grounded

  NASA/KSC

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  The Universe May Be Lopsided: DESI and Euclid Data Challenge Cosmology's Bedrock Assumption

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Sunspot AR4479 Fires an X1 Flare and Ten M-Flares, and NOAA Posts a G2 Watch for the Fourth of July Weekend

  NASA/SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

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  Comet 10P/Tempel 2 Brightens to Its Best Since 1967 — What Else to Watch in the July 2026 Sky

  NASA/Michoud Assembly Facility — Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) over Southeast Louisiana, Oct. 13, 2024

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  China Refreshes Its Ocean-Watching Fleet: Haiyang-2E Reaches Orbit on the 654th Long March

  NASA/JPL-Caltech — Artist concept of the Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite in orbit (PIA14441)

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  Action! Rubin Observatory Officially Starts Its 10-Year LSST Survey

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  July 4's Sky Show: Mars and Uranus Stage Their Closest Meeting Until 2053

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Voyager 2, PIA18182 — Uranus)

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  Rocket Lab Buys Iridium for $8 Billion, Trading Rockets for a Working Satellite Network

  NASA/Rocket Lab

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  A Planet TESS Was Never Built to See: First Microlensing World Pulled From the Archive

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Webb Reads the Atmosphere of a Giant Planet That Outlived Its Star

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  X-ray Echoes of Dead Stars Nudge the Milky Way's Outer Arms Farther Out

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE (PIA19341 — "Tracing the Arms of our Milky Way Galaxy")

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  Aurora Alert: An X1.1 Flare and Back-to-Back CMEs Open a June 30-July 1 Storm Window

  NASA/Kennedy Space Center

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  A Super-Earth on the Cosmic Shoreline: UC Irvine Sharpens Up GJ 3378 b, 25 Light-Years Away

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Australia's MWA Bags Its First Millisecond Pulsar — and It's in an 833-Day Orbit

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Pulsar Artist Concept, PIA21085)

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  NASA Buys Four More Moon Landings: Astrobotic, Firefly and Intuitive Machines Split ~$590M in CLPS Orders

  NASA / Intuitive Machines (Nova-C lunar lander, CLPS)

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  New Horizons Feels the Drag: Interstellar Atoms Are Braking the Solar Wind at 58 AU

  NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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  The Radio Sky Is Brighter Than We Thought: A New SKA-Low Measurement Rewrites the Low-Frequency Map

  NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) — Radio galaxy Hercules A (Hubble optical + VLA radio composite)

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  Asteroid Day 2026: As Hera Closes In on Dimorphos, Planetary Defense Gets Its Moment

  NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

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  Could Giant Alien Mirrors Betray ET? A New Study Tests Whether Orbiting Megastructures Would Survive

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  The Blaze Star on the Brink: Why Sky-Watchers Are Still Waiting for T Coronae Borealis to Erupt

  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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  A Skyscraper-Sized 'Peanut' Buzzes Earth: Tracking Asteroid 1997 NC1's June 27 Flyby

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (artist's concept of a near-Earth asteroid)

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  NASA Just Tested a 'Gas-Pump Nozzle' for Orbit — and It Could Be the Key to Mars

  NASA

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  A Razor-Thin Thread Across the Veil: Amateurs Spot a 1,200-AU H-alpha Mystery in the Cygnus Loop

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Galaxy Evolution Explorer / GALEX) — "Cygnus Loop Nebula" (PIA15415)

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  Tactical Radio From Orbit: York's 'Dragoon' Proves LEO Can Do GEO's Job

  NASA — SBS-4 communications satellite in orbit above the Earth (NASA ID 41d-39-0068)

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  Two Astronauts, One Stubborn Wrist: NASA's June 30 Spacewalk to Fix Canadarm2

  NASA (astronaut Mark Vande Hei during Expedition 53 EVA to service the Canadarm2 robotic arm, Oct. 10, 2017; NASA ID iss053e095794)

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  Hubble's 'Chandelier Cluster' Reveals Its Ancient Stars Formed in Two Separate Bursts

  NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

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  A June 26 CME Is Inbound: NOAA Posts a Storm Watch and the Aurora Could Reach the Northern U.S.

  NASA / ISS Expedition 72 — A red and green aurora borealis above Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence (iss072e451060)

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  Marsquakes Reveal a Hidden Magma Engine Beneath the Red Planet's Crust

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  NASA and the SBA Sign a Deal to Funnel Small Businesses Into the Space Economy

  NASA/Stennis Space Center

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  China Is Filling Low Orbit With Derelict Rocket Bodies — and Three Have Already Exploded

  NASA

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  The Loudest Black-Hole Collision Yet Let Astronomers Touch the Event Horizon Itself

  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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  This Week's Sky: Mars Slides Into the Pleiades as the Strawberry Moon Rises

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Spitzer Space Telescope, "Pink Pleiades," PIA09262)

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  Space Force Hands Boeing $2 Billion to Extend the Military's 'Cellphone Network in Space'

  NASA/MSFC — Atlas-Centaur (AC-68) carrying the FLTSATCOM F-8 military communications satellite on Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral (NASA ID 9022340)

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  Spacewalk 95: Two NASA Astronauts Head Outside to Give Canadarm2 a New Wrist

  NASA

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  Not Ice Giants After All: A New Model Recasts Uranus and Neptune as Magma-Ocean Worlds

  NASA, ESA, A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong and A. Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)

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  A Galaxy Shaped Like a Bow and Arrow Is Plowing a 1.8-Million-Light-Year Shockwave Through Space

  NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) — Radio Galaxy Hercules A (Hubble/VLA)

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  Your July 2026 Night Sky: A Daytime-Bright Venus, the Buck Moon, and a Fireball-Rich Meteor Finale

  NASA (ISS Expedition 6 — crescent moon and the planet Venus)

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  NASA's Moon Base Rovers Get Real: Astrolab and Lunar Outpost Race Toward a 2027 Delivery

  NASA / Johnson Space Center (Astrolab FLEX lunar terrain vehicle testing, nasa_id jsc2024e065740)

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  Botswana Signs the Artemis Accords, Becoming the 68th Nation and Sixth African Member

  NASA/Keegan Barber

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  Euclid's 60-Million-Star Portrait of the Galactic Bulge Lays Groundwork for Roman

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Spitzer Space Telescope) — "Hustle and Bustle at Center of Milky Way" (PIA17009)

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  Hubble Catches a Tiny Galaxy Burning Off the Cosmic Fog, 1.4 Billion Years After the Big Bang

  NASA, ESA/Hubble (Hubble Space Telescope)

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  A Surprise G1 Geomagnetic Storm Lit Up June 25 as a New Sunspot Woke Up

  NASA/Johnson Space Center (ISS074-E-150531)

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  CRS-34 Dragon Heads Home With Bioprinted Tissue and Cancer-Research Cargo

  NASA

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  Behind Closed Doors: ESA's 347th Council Sets the Table for Europe's 2026 Ministerial

  NASA/Kim Shiflett

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  A Ghostly Neutrino Leads Astronomers to 'Shadow Blaster,' a Starburst Galaxy 11 Billion Light-Years Away

  NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Advanced Camera for Surveys)

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  Sub-Neptunes May Be 'Soot Factories' Running on Natural Diesel Engines, JWST Data Suggests

  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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  What Artemis II Taught NASA: Real Orion Flight Data Now Shapes the Moon-to-Mars Blueprint

  Image: Rad Sinyak, NASA / Wikimedia Commons

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  China Schedules Long March 10B Booster Recovery Test in Its Most Direct Challenge to Falcon 9

  Image: 中国新闻社 / Wikimedia Commons

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  Congress Eyes $55.5 Billion for Space Force — and the Service Is Already Spending It

  Image: U.S. Navy photo by [null Courtesy] / Wikimedia Commons

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  NASA's Billion-Dollar Graveyard: How Canceled Exploration Projects Burned the Budget

  Image: Bubba73 / Wikimedia Commons

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  TESS Discovers the Puffiest Planets on Record—and They Challenge Everything We Know About Gas Giants

  Image: NASA / Wikimedia Commons

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  Phones, Meet Space: AST SpaceMobile Lofts Its First Block 2 BlueBirds

  NASA (SBS-4 communications satellite in orbit, NASA Image and Video Library, ID 41d-39-0068)

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  Pittsburgh's Moonshot: Astrobotic Unveils Griffin-1 Before Shipping NASA's 'Moon Base 2' Lander to JPL

  NASA/GRC/Bridget Caswell

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  Why Giant Planets Spin Faster Than 'Failed Stars': Keck's Largest Spin Survey Draws the Line

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Space Force Bets on a Jam-Resistant Swarm: First Two PTS-G Satellites Ordered for $437.7M

  NASA (SBS-4 communications satellite in orbit above the Earth, NASA image 41d-39-0068)

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  How Venus Got Its Backward Day: A Moon-Sized Impactor May Have Flipped the Planet

  NASA/JPL-Caltech (Mariner 10, "Venus from Mariner 10", PIA23791)

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  Boeing and NASA Stay Committed to Starliner-1 While a Launch Date Remains Nowhere in Sight

  Image: Mike Garcia / Wikimedia Commons

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  America's Spaceports Are Running Out of Runway: NASA's Inspector General Sounds the Alarm

  Image: European Space Agency / Wikimedia Commons

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  Rival Satellite Operators Launch Their Own NGSO Trade Group — Without SpaceX

  Image: SpaceX / Wikimedia Commons

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  SpaceX Launches Secretive 'Starfall' Reentry Demo — What the Silence Signals

  Image: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Wikimedia Commons

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  Vantor Picks BAE Systems to Build the Satellites Behind Its Growing Surveillance Constellation

  Image: NOAA / Wikimedia Commons

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  GalileoSharp Puts Real Astrophotography Sharpening in Your Pocket

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA / M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson (Orion Nebula, JWST)

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  Chandra Spots What May Be a Hidden Supernova Remnant Lurking Near the Galaxy's Heart

  Image: James Webb Space Telescope / Wikimedia Commons

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  A Chinese Spaceplane Just Released an Object Into Orbit — and Commercial Trackers Caught It

  Image: NASA / Wikimedia Commons

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  Rocket Lab Launches Victus Haze Satellite in Space Force's Most Ambitious Responsive Space Exercise Yet

  Image: Rodney Allen / Wikimedia Commons

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  Trump Executive Order Pushes NASA Toward Quantum-Secured Space Communications

  Image: Indian Space Research Organisation / Wikimedia Commons

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  Germany Pushes a Multinational Space Command as Europe Moves to Cut Its Reliance on American Satellites

  Image: Geertivp / Wikimedia Commons

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  The Pentagon Just Committed $1.2 Billion to Secure the Rare Earth Minerals That Satellites and Missiles Depend On

  Image: Brücke-Osteuropa / Wikimedia Commons

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  Rheinmetall and Vantor Are Building a Military Satellite ISR Network for Germany's Armed Forces

  Image: Ronald C. Wittmann / Wikimedia Commons

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  The Space Force Just Published a 15-Year Vision. Personnel, Simulators, and Survivability Top the List.

  Image: U.S. Space Force photo by Ethan Johnson / Wikimedia Commons

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  Astroscale Raises New Capital as Orbital Debris Removal Becomes Big Business

  Image: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Science and Technology Corporation/Kel Elkins / Wikimedia Commons

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  The Jellyfish Has a Sibling: Fermi Telescope Uncovers Evidence of a Rare Double Supernova

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Wikimedia Commons

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  India's Jio Unveils Sovereign LEO Constellation Plan as $10–15 Billion Bet on Connecting India From the Skies

  Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / Wikimedia Commons

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  Voyager Space Moves to Acquire Astrobotic, Betting Big on Commercial Lunar Delivery at Scale

  Image: NASA / Wikimedia Commons

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  Webb and Hubble Team Up to Reveal an Ancient Relic of the Milky Way's Formation

  Image: Donald Pelletier / Wikimedia Commons

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  AST SpaceMobile's Block 2 BlueBirds Are in Orbit — and the Race for Direct-to-Cell Just Got Real

  Image: Bill Ingalls / Wikimedia Commons

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  Astrobotic's Griffin-1 Lunar Lander Heads to California for Environmental Testing

  Image: Astrobotic / Wikimedia Commons

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  A Chinese University Is Building a $2.8 Million Spacecraft to Chase Asteroid Apophis

  Image: N509FZ / Wikimedia Commons

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  Curiosity Rover Surveys Mysterious Geological Bands on Mars, Adding New Data to the Planet's Stratigraphic Record

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / Wikimedia Commons

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  ElevationSpace Banks $40 Million to Chase the Factory-in-Orbit Dream

  Image: European Space Agency / Wikimedia Commons

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  EQT to Acquire Exolaunch as Space-Industry Consolidation Picks Up Speed

  Image: SpaceX Photos / Wikimedia Commons

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  An Austrian Propulsion Startup Just Landed €6.3 Million From Europe's Sovereign Space Push

  Image: Vsatinet / Wikimedia Commons

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  How Do You Become a NASA Astronaut? The Process, the Odds, and What They Actually Look For

  Image: NASA Johnson Space Center / SpaceX / Wikimedia Commons

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  NASA's Lucy Catches a 155-Million-Year-Old Asteroid Tumbling Through Space Like a Cosmic Peanut

  Image: NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/Glenn Benson / Wikimedia Commons

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  MDA Space Moves to Acquire Blue Canyon Technologies, Planting a Flag in the U.S. Smallsat Market

  Image: Mardetanha / Wikimedia Commons

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  The MEO Durability Crisis: Why LEO-Designed Hardware Will Fail the New Orbital Economy

  Image: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Emmett Given / Wikimedia Commons

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  A Falcon 50 and a Big Bet: Mu-g Technologies Wants to Fill the Gap in Commercial Parabolic Flight

  Image: SpaceX Photos / Wikimedia Commons

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  NASA Just Handed 14 Companies a $476 Million Contract to Watch the Earth

  Image: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky / Wikimedia Commons

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  NASA Greenlights Twin-Satellite Mission to Crack the Code of Space Weather's Atmospheric Grip

  Image: NASA/Davis Paul Meltzer / Wikimedia Commons

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  NASA's ERNEST Rover Just Tore Through 16 Miles of California Desert — and It's Headed for the Moon

  Image: NASA/JPL / Wikimedia Commons

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  Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, Compton: The Strategy Behind NASA's Great Observatories

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/CXC/UofA/ESA/AURA/JHU / Wikimedia Commons

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  From Cold Gas to Nuclear Fire: NASA Maps Every Step of How Stars Ignite

  Image: Wikimedia Commons

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  Northrop Grumman Says It Can Scale Solid Rocket Production — But Washington Has to Commit First

  Image: Mysterymanblue / Wikimedia Commons

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  From Suriname to NASA Kennedy: Rohit Goeptar's Unlikely Path to the Launch Pad

  Image: Expedition 20 Crew, NASA / Wikimedia Commons

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  Space Force's Top Rapid-Acquisition Leader Decamps for Nuclear Weapons Center as Congress Rewrites the Playbook

  Image: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation / Wikimedia Commons

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  SpaceX Sends Classified NRO Payload to Orbit, Cementing Its Role as America's Go-To Military Launch Provider

  Image: U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Spencer Contreras / Wikimedia Commons

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  China's Spark Space Bets on Electric-Pump Engines to Carve Out a Niche in the Small-Sat Launch Race

  Image: D J Shin / Wikimedia Commons

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  Your First Telescope: What to Buy, What to Skip, and What to Look at First

  Image: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons

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  The Case Hardens: JWST's 'Little Red Dots' Are Black Holes Feeding Past the Limit

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  A European at the Controls: ESA's Parmitano Named Artemis III Pilot as NASA and ESA Sign New Climate and Lunar Deals

  NASA/John Kraus

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  SpaceX Flies Its First Falcon 9 as a Public Company. Almost Nothing Changed.

  NASA

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  Solstice Week 2026: A Daytime Venus Occultation, the Longest Day, and a Strawberry Moon

  NASA/Michael DeMocker

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  Two More Jam-Resistant GPS Satellites: Inside the Space Force's $514M GPS IIIF Order

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Ariane 6 Just Lifted the Heaviest Payload in European Launch History. It Was Full of Amazon Satellites.

  None

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  Webb Just Mapped 164,000 Galaxies Across 13.7 Billion Years. This Is the Cosmic Web in Detail.

  NASA — Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe

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  An Interstellar Visitor's Chemical Fingerprint Is Unlike Anything in Our Solar System

  None

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  Roman Is Launching Eight Months Early. Here's What 100,000 Planets and a Census of Rogue Worlds Actually Looks Like.

  NASA — Dr. Nancy Grace Roman visits James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) a

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  America's Lunar Economic Frontier: The Quiet Revolution in How We Plan to Use the Moon

  None

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  JWST Watches an Exoplanet Get Flash-Fried on the Universe's Most Eccentric Orbit

  Image: NASA

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  NASA Enlists the Public to Hunt for Faint Objects Hiding in the Sun's Cosmic Backyard

  None

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  NASA Bets on Private Sector to Crack Mars: Inside the Agency's New Public-Private Partnership

  None

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  Relativity Space Wants to Build a Mars Orbiter — And It's Not Waiting for NASA to Ask

  None

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  Chandra's Deep Look at NGC 6540: How a Mysterious X-Ray Flare Became Three Distinct Sources

  None

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  NASA's Cold Atom Lab Gets Its Fourth Major Upgrade to Study Quantum Gases in Space

  Image: NASA

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  Swift Gets a Second Chance: How Commercial Servicing Is Saving NASA's Gamma-Ray Observatory

  Image: NASA

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  Physicists Propose Gravastars as Singularity Alternative: Collapsing Stars May Birth Miniature Universes

  Image: NASA

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  Asteroid 2026 JH2's Surprise Close Approach Exposes Detection Gaps in Planetary Defense

  None

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  Katalyst LINK Spacecraft Integrated for Swift Observatory Rescue Mission

  Image: NASA

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  South Africa's MeerKAT Detects Most Distant Hydroxyl Megamaser at Universe's Halfway Point

  Image: NASA

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  Mercury Reaches Peak Evening Visibility on June 15: Your Guide to the 2026 Viewing Window

  Image: NASA / JHU/APL / Wikimedia Commons

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  SpaceX Dragon Returns From ISS With Bioprinted Tissues and Cancer Research Data

  Image: NASA

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  The Air Force Wants to Launch and Catch Rockets from Old Oil Platforms at Sea

  Image: NASA

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  Combat Surgeon, Record-Setter, Next: Army's Col. Rubio Named to Artemis III Earth Orbit Test Crew

  Image: NASA

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  Beyond Pluto: What the Kuiper Belt Is Teaching Us About the Solar System's Deep Freeze

  Image: NASA

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  Magnetars: The Universe's Most Magnetic Objects Are Also Among Its Rarest and Most Violent

  Image: NASA

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  One Outage Stopped Navy Drone Tests. The Pentagon's SpaceX Problem Is Bigger Than That.

  Image: NASA

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  The CNO Cycle: How Massive Stars Burn Hydrogen Differently Than the Sun

  Image: NASA

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  The Coma Cluster: Where Dark Matter Was First Weighed and Found Wanting

  Image: NASA

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  ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover: Still Alive, Still Going to Mars

  Image: NASA

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  Galaxy Season: A Guide to Observing the Local Group This Autumn

  Image: NASA

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  ESA's Hera Mission Is About to Rewrite What We Know About Asteroid Deflection

  Image: NASA

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  When Neutron Stars Collide: How Kilonovae Forge the Universe's Heavy Elements

  Image: NASA

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  Inside a Stellar Nursery: How the Orion Molecular Cloud Builds Stars

  Image: NASA

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  The Upper Stage Problem: Why Reusable Second Stages Are Harder Than They Look

  Image: jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons

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  The SDA's Transport Layer: America's Proliferated Military Satellite Constellation

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  VIPER Is Cancelled. Here's Why NASA's Ice-Hunting Rover Mattered.

  Image: NASA

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  Anti-satellite weapons are real, tested, and leaving debris clouds that threaten everyone

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  GPS jamming and spoofing: the quiet threat that's getting louder

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  Space is already a battlefield. Ukraine showed us what that looks like.

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  The Space Force is quietly replacing its aging satellite backbone. Here's what's new.

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  What the Space Force actually does — and why it matters more than most people realize

  Image: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

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  NASA's DAVINCI mission will drop a probe through Venus's atmosphere. Here's what it's looking for.

  Image: NASA

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  India's space program is moving faster than anyone expected. Here's where it stands.

  Image: NASA

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  Pulsars are spinning neutron stars that keep better time than atomic clocks — and we're using them to detect gravitational waves

  Image: NASA

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  Low Earth orbit has a garbage problem. Here's who's trying to clean it up.

  Image: NASA

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  Globular clusters are the oldest things you can see with a backyard telescope

  Image: NASA

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  BepiColombo is about to become the first new Mercury orbiter in 50 years

  Image: NASA

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  The missing planets: why there's a gap in the size distribution of worlds around other stars

  Image: NASA

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  Your phone's GPS is a real-time test of general relativity — and it passes every day

  Image: NASA

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  Gravity as a telescope: how Einstein rings are mapping dark matter

  Image: NASA

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  Five years of Perseverance: what the rover has actually changed about how we think about Mars

  Image: NASA

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  Private companies are landing on the Moon. Here's what the scoreboard actually looks like.

  Image: NASA

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  Russia in space, 2026: what's left of the program after four years of isolation

  Image: NASA

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  Planetary nebulae: the most photogenic objects in the sky that no one talks about

  Image: geckzilla / Wikimedia Commons

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  America's Astronomy Clubs: A State-by-State Guide

  Image: NASA

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  The first private module is going to the ISS. It's a down payment on something bigger.

  Image: NASA

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  Double stars are the most underrated objects in the night sky

  Image: NASA

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  Webb is finding brown dwarfs we didn't know existed. There may be as many as stars.

  Image: NASA

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  China is heading to the Moon's south pole. What Chang'e 7 is actually trying to do.

  Image: NASA

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  China's space station is done. Now it's being used.

  Image: NASA

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  The biggest 3D map of the universe ever made just got bigger. What DESI is finding.

  Image: NASA

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  ESA is building a telescope just for exoplanet atmospheres. Ariel will change what we know.

  Image: NASA

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  Europa Clipper is on its way, and its first look at an ocean world will be worth the wait

  Image: NASA

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  Fast radio bursts are everywhere. We still don't fully understand any of them.

  Image: NASA

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  India is about to send humans to space for the first time. Here's where Gaganyaan stands.

  Image: NASA

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  The black hole at the center of the galaxy is more active than we realized

  Image: NASA

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  The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen broke our models. Now we're rebuilding them.

  Image: NASA

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  Astronomers can't agree on how old the universe is. That's actually exciting.

  Image: NASA

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  Life on icy moons: what extremophiles on Earth are teaching us to look for

  Image: NASA

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  People keep saying we'll manufacture things in space. Here's what's actually happening.

  Image: NASA

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  JAXA is going to the moons of Mars. MMX wants to answer a 150-year-old question.

  Image: NASA

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  ESA's JUICE mission is on its way to Jupiter. The science starts long before arrival.

  Image: NASA

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  Webb's second year of science: the results that changed things

  Image: NASA

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  Mars had an ocean. New evidence is filling in how long it lasted.

  Image: NASA

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  How to see the Milky Way's core — and why it's harder than it used to be

  Image: NASA

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  NASA is being asked to do less with less. What actually gets cut first?

  Image: NASA

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  OSIRIS-APEX is racing toward Apophis, and 2029 is going to be extraordinary

  Image: NASA

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  Phosphine on Venus: four years later, what the research actually says

  Image: NASA

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  Planet Nine: the evidence is getting harder to dismiss

  Image: NASA

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  The metal world Psyche is stranger than anyone expected

  Image: NASA

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  Rocket Lab is building a reusable rocket. Why Neutron is harder than it looks.

  Image: NASA

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  The Sun is at its most active in two decades. What solar maximum actually means.

  Image: NASA

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  Space tourism in 2026: who's actually going, and what it costs them

  Image: NASA

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  Starship made it to orbit. What that actually means for space access.

  Image: NASA

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  ULA's Vulcan rocket is flying. What it means for the launch market.

  Image: NASA

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  New Glenn flew. Now Blue Origin has to prove it can do it again.

  Image: NASA

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  Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest of the year. How to make the most of it.

  Image: NASA

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  Night sky photography in 2026: what modern cameras can do that used to take an observatory

  Image: NASA

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  A startup is building a space station. Haven-1 is closer than most people realize.

  Image: NASA

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  The Wow! Signal is 47 years old. We still don't know what it was.

  Image: NASA

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  Artemis II keeps slipping. Here's what's actually holding it back.

  Image: NASA

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  How black holes actually grow: new X-ray observations are filling in the picture

  Image: NASA

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  Dragonfly is going to Titan. Here's why that's one of the boldest planetary missions ever designed.

  Image: NASA

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  The best meteor showers of 2026: when to watch and where to look

  Image: NASA

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  Saturn's rings are nearly edge-on. Here's why that's worth watching.

  Image: NASA

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  Webb found water in the disk where a planet is forming right now

  Image: NASA

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  NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose. It worked better than the models said it would.

  Photo: "Dimorphos from DART approx. 3 sec before impact" by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Solar Orbiter flew closer to the Sun than any imaging spacecraft before it. What it saw was unexpected.

  Photo: "Solar Orbiter’s widest high-res view of the Sun ESA508430" by European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  India landed on the Moon's south pole when others had failed. What Pragyan found in two weeks.

  Photo: "Chandrayaan 3 Vikram lander stereo (53167467822) crop" by ISRO/Simeon Schmauß · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Before it died, InSight mapped the inside of Mars — and nothing was what we expected

  Photo: "PIA22829 InSight's First Image from Mars" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The asteroid Bennu handed us clay and carbon. Scientists are still processing what that means.

  Photo: "This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19, 2019, was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft" by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012. It's still transmitting, and it's still surprising us.

  Photo: "Voyager spacecraft" by NASA/JPL · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  China just brought back rocks from the side of the Moon we've never sampled. Here's why that matters.

  Photo: "Earthrise over Compton crater -LRO full res" by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Ingenuity flew 72 times on Mars. Here's what those flights changed.

  Photo: "NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars by Perseverance Mastcam-Z, Sol 768 (53475637956)" by semeion.photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA's new space telescope has one job: find every asteroid that could hit Earth

  Photo: "Rubin Observatory will discover millions of new asteroids to consider for up-close exploration (noirlab2404a)" by RubinObs/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pinto · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A microwave-oven-sized spacecraft spent a year testing the orbit where NASA's Moon station will live

  Photo: "PIA22413 – Astrophysics CubeSat Demonstrates Big Potential in a Small Package, Figure 1" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Some black holes launch jets of plasma at nearly the speed of light. The physics of how they do it is still being worked out.

  Photo: "M87- A Nearby Galaxy Metropolis (2008-m87 - m87 lg)" by X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/W. Forman et al.; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/W. Cotton; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The oldest light in the universe is still telling us things we didn't expect

  Photo: "Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) full-sky map" by ESA/Planck Collaboration · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  JWST has started reading the air of alien worlds. The results are already rewriting textbooks.

  Photo: "Artist's impression of an ultra-short-period planet" by NASA, ESA and A. Schaller · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Two ways of measuring the universe's expansion rate are giving different answers. That's either a crisis or a discovery.

  Photo: "James Webb Space Telescope Mirror37" by NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Emmett Given · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A Harvard 'computer' cracked the mystery of stellar distances. It took the field 20 years to understand what she'd done.

  Photo: "Large Magellanic Cloud" by ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Dark matter is 27 percent of the universe, and we don't know what it is. Here's the current state of the hunt.

  Photo: "Bullet Cluster- Searching for Primordial Antimatter (2008-bullet -)" by X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/M.Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al. · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The world's largest radio telescope is in a Chinese valley. It has already found more pulsars than anyone expected.

  Photo: "Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, China (ASTER)" by NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The most important diagram in astronomy was drawn twice, independently, by two people who never collaborated

  Photo: "A Hidden, Massive Star Cluster Awash with Red Supergiants (2006-03-1848)" by Spitzer Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech, D. Figer (STScI/Rochester Institute of Technology), E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and the GLIMPSE Legacy Team; 2MASS Image: NASA/NSF/2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech and D. Figer (STScI/Rochester Institute of Technology) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The universe has a skeleton. It is made of gas, dark matter, and time.

  Photo: "Simulation of large scale structure (eso1438b)" by Illustris Collaboration · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Gold and platinum were made in the collision of two neutron stars. We watched it happen.

  Photo: "Collision Sequence for a Magnetar-Powered Kilonova Blast Illustration (2020-48-4775)" by NASA, ESA, and D. Player · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Three moons in the outer solar system have conditions that could support life. We've barely started looking.

  Photo: "The Plumes of Enceladus (54444409797)" by Mark McCaughrean · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The Oort Cloud is the solar system's outer shell. We've never directly observed it.

  Photo: "A Rosetta colour image of the surface of Comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko (49948151618)" by Mark McCaughrean · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Saturn's rings exist because of a mathematical boundary. Anything inside it cannot hold itself together.

  Photo: "Top view of the rings of Saturn by Cassini - October 10, 2013" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Cornell · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Every atom heavier than hydrogen was forged inside a star. Here is how that happened.

  Photo: "Cassiopeia A Spitzer" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  In the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the universe grew by a factor of 10 to the 26th power. Here's what we know about that.

  Photo: "CMB universe expansion" by NASA/WMAP Science Team/ Art by Dana Berry · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Frank Drake wrote seven terms on a blackboard in 1961. Here's what we know about each of them now.

  Photo: "Green Bank Telescope NRAO (cropped)" by NRAO/AUI/NSF · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Some things can only be made in zero gravity. A small industry is building the infrastructure to make them.

  Photo: "Iss071e673561 (Sept 17, 2024) -- NASA astronaut Mike Barratt smiles for a photo while inside the International Space Station's cupola as the orbiting lab soared 269 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean" by NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  SpaceX has launched more than 6,000 satellites. Astronomers are not happy about it.

  Photo: "Objects and debris in LEO by height white" by Pablo Carlos Budassi · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  SpaceX cut the cost of reaching orbit by 90 percent. Here's what that has and hasn't changed.

  Photo: "CRS-8 (26239020092)" by SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Solar panels stop working past Jupiter. Nuclear reactors are the only practical power source for deep space.

  Photo: "Cassini RTG" by (unknown) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Artemis is more than a Moon landing. It's a permanent outpost architecture. Here's the full picture.

  Photo: "KSC-20210401-PH-CNS01 0001 - Artist's rendring of launch of Artemis 1" by NASA/Chad Siwik · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Five planets are visible without a telescope. Here's when and where to find each of them in 2026.

  Photo: "Night Sky from Hawai‘i and Chile (iotw2225c)" by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), T. Slovinský · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  JWST can sniff exoplanet atmospheres. Scientists are debating what a 'biosignature' actually proves.

  Image: NASA

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  Light pollution has erased the Milky Way for a third of humanity. Dark sky preserves are the counterweight.

  Photo: "How light pollution affects the dark night skies (dark-skies)" by ESO/P. Horálek, M. Wallner · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Planet Labs photographs every point on Earth every day. What that means for science and surveillance.

  Photo: "North America from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP" by NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The Sun occasionally fires plasma clouds at Earth that can knock out power grids. We're not prepared.

  Photo: "August 2010 CME SDO Multi-Wavelength" by NASA/SDO/AIA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  China's Tiangong station is complete and permanently crewed. Here's what it's doing.

  Photo: "Chinese Tiangong Space Station" by Shujianyang · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  You don't need a telescope to see deep-sky wonders. A pair of binoculars opens the Messier catalog.

  Photo: "Orion Nebula - Hubble 2006 mosaic 18000" by NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Satellites are replaced when they run out of fuel. A nascent industry wants to refuel and repair them instead.

  Photo: "The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is held in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm (iss074e0459130)" by NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  ESA's next decade in space: gravitational wave detectors, exoplanet atmospheres, and Venus.

  Photo: "Golden cubes for LISA ESA25447436" by European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  After seven years of flying past planets, BepiColombo has finally reached Mercury

  Photo: "BepiColombo spacecraft model" by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA's Lucy mission has already upended what we thought about small bodies — and the Trojans haven't started yet

  Photo: "Lucy Spacecraft Rotation (KSC-20210901-PH-GEB01 0002)" by NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/Glenn Benson · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Something massive might be hiding at the edge of the solar system. Here's the evidence for and against.

  Photo: "Smallest Kuiper Belt Object" by NASA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The company quietly building the ISS's replacement, one pressurized module at a time

  Photo: "STS-135 final flyaround of ISS 1" by NASA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Where did the Moon come from? Apollo's rocks are still answering that question.

  Photo: "NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle" by NASA / Harrison H. Schmitt · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Boeing's crew capsule is still on the ground. What Starliner's failure means for human spaceflight.

  Photo: "Starliner Capsule and SM" by Photo credited to Boeing · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe — and they tell us how galaxies are built

  Photo: "Anatomy of an Active Galactic Nucleus (SVS14922 - Jet illustrated Loop v01 00001 print)" by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  For 30 years, the Sun appeared to be broken. Then we realized the problem was the neutrino.

  Photo: "Super Kamiokande, 1 to 135th" by Motokoka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The summer Milky Way is the most spectacular thing you can see with your eyes — here's how to find it

  Photo: "036 Milky Way during Perseids seen from Oeschinensee with water reflections Photo by Giles Laurent" by Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Every massive object in the universe is also a telescope — and we've learned to use them

  Photo: "Einstein cross" by NASA, ESA, and STScI · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The most pristine object we have ever visited rewrote the story of how planets are made

  Photo: "Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT" by NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  ESA's JUICE is threading five planetary flybys to reach the most interesting moons in the solar system

  Photo: "JUICE spacecraft model 2" by Dnepr740 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The Perseids peak in August — here's how to make the most of the best meteor shower of the year

  Image: NASA

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  Fast radio bursts are the most energetic millisecond events in the universe — and we're finally finding their sources

  Photo: "CHIME Pathfinder" by Andre Recnik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The Milky Way's skeleton is made of ghost stars — and Gaia is mapping every one

  Photo: "The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 ESA22358897" by European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  After a century of searching, we know where at least some cosmic rays come from

  Photo: "Early Hubble Image of Galaxy NGC 1068 (1994-07-140)" by (unknown) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Magnetars are neutron stars with magnetic fields strong enough to restructure atoms — and they are reshaping our understanding of dense matter

  Photo: "Artist’s impression of the magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1" by ESO/L. Calçada · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Perseverance is building the strongest case yet for ancient life on Mars — one core sample at a time

  Photo: "Jezero crater on Mars, sol 31 of Perseverance mission" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Webb is revolutionizing the science of brown dwarfs — objects that blur every boundary we use to define a star

  Photo: "Hubble Brown Dwarf Survey Illustration (2024-005)" by Artwork NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The satellites won. Now astronomers are learning to live with 40,000 of them.

  Photo: "Light pollution, Third Place" by Torsten Hansen/IAU OAE · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The Night Sky for the Rest of June 2026: A Planet Parade, a Venus Occultation, and the Strawberry Moon

  Photo: ForestWander, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 US)

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  Still to Fly in 2026: Roman, a Moon-Lander Wave, India's Crew Capsule Test, and Japan's Phobos Grab

  Photo: NASA/Sam Lott

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  With the ISS nearing retirement, the race to build its replacement is on

  Photo: "International Space Station star trails - JSC2012E039800" by NASA/Don Pettit · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The coldest planet we've ever photographed seems to have icy clouds

  Photo: "Gas Giant Exoplanet (Illustration) (2018-30-4211-Image)" by IMAGE: ESA, NASA, STScI, Martin Kornmesser (HEIC, ESA/Hubble.org) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Japan's veteran asteroid hunter lines up a 5-kilometer-per-second flyby

  Photo: "Artist’s impression of Hayabusa2 touching down on asteroid 1998 KY26 (artist’s impression) (noirlab2527b)" by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Asteroid: T. Santana-Ros et al. Hayabusa2 model: SuperTKG (CC-BY-SA) · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Webb stares at a rocky exoplanet and sees nothing — which tells us plenty

  Photo: "Super-Earth Exoplanet 55 Cancri e (Artist’s Concept) (2024-102)" by Illustration NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A strange gravitational wave is reviving an old idea: black holes older than the stars

  Photo: "Black Hole Merger 2" by NASA/CXC/A.Hobart · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  After 11 years reading the Martian air, MAVEN goes quiet

  Photo: "MAVEN spacecraft model" by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA's Moon base stops being a slogan and starts signing contracts

  Photo: "Lunar Electric Rover 2008 desert testing" by NASA/Regan Geeseman · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Six toaster-sized satellites are about to become one giant radio telescope

  Photo: "A CubeSat is ejected into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer (iss072e351959)" by NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Mark the date: on August 12, 2026, the Moon's shadow returns to Europe

  Photo: "Total Solar Eclipse 8-21-17" by Michael S Adler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  One planet, two weathers: Webb catches an ultra-hot world with a split atmosphere

  Photo: "WASP-121b 01" by NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STSci) · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  In 2029 an asteroid will pass closer than our satellites — and two spacecraft will be waiting

  Photo: "Bennu mosaic OSIRIS-REx (square)" by NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The new Moon rush: a fleet of private landers is heading for the lunar surface

  Photo: "Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM 00309) (cropped)" by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Intuitive Machines · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The little moon that sprays its ocean into space — and why it tops the list for life

  Photo: "Enceladus geysers June 2009" by NASA/JPL/SSI · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Europe's 'dark universe detective' is building a 3D map of the invisible cosmos

  Photo: "Euclid spacecraft ESA24912474" by European Space Agency · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A NASA spacecraft is gliding toward a world made largely of metal

  Photo: "Psyche Spacecraft Unwrapped (KSC-20220503-PH-ILW01 0062)" by Isaac Watson · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The highest clouds on Earth glow electric blue at midnight — and their season is starting

  Photo: "Helkivad ööpilved Kuresoo kohal" by Martin Koitmäe [1] · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The orbital junkyard is getting dangerous — and the first cleanup missions are flying

  Photo: "Space Debris Low Earth Orbit" by Orbital Debris Program Office · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The hunt for air on a nearby Earth-size world is the hardest test JWST has taken on

  Photo: "Possible Interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  America's new national-security rocket is grounded by a recurring booster glitch

  Photo: "Vulcan pathfinder test article (KSC-20210826-PH-KLS01 0073)" by Kim Shiflett · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Two 1970s spacecraft are still calling home from interstellar space — but the lights are going out

  Photo: "Voyager spacecraft" by NASA/JPL · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Meet the Artemis III crew: a record-holder, a European pilot, and a mission that isn't a landing

  Photo: "Orion Artemis 1 Spacecraft Crew Module" by Rad Sinyak, NASA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA is building a nuclear-powered drone to fly across the dunes of Titan

  Photo: "Dragonfly-landing" by NASA/JHU-APL · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA's biggest planetary spacecraft is halfway to an ocean it has never seen

  Photo: "Europa Clipper Team Deploys Magnetometer Boom" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A comet from another star is passing through — and it carries water unlike any in our solar system

  Photo: "Comet 3I ATLAS = A11pl3Z" by Филипп Романов · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The spacecraft that flies into the Sun's atmosphere — and keeps coming back

  Photo: "Parker Solar Probe" by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A single Falcon 9 booster has now flown 35 times — and made the impossible look boring

  Photo: "Falcon 9 first stage landing on Droneship" by SpaceX · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA names the Artemis III crew this week — for a mission that is no longer a Moon landing

  Photo: "Artemis 2 Crew Portrait" by Josh Valcarcel · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The aurora window isn't closing yet — why 2026 can still light up the sky

  Photo: "Aurora borealis over Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska" by United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  China's probe is closing on a tiny asteroid that may — or may not — be a piece of the Moon

  Photo: "Tianwen-2 spacecraft diagram" by Kaynouky · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Curiosity found the richest haul of organic molecules yet on Mars — and a careful reason not to call it life

  Photo: "PIA16239 High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems Derivative work including grading, distortion correction, minor local adjustments and rendering from tiff-file: Julian Herzog · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Four years after we punched an asteroid, a spacecraft is arriving to read the bruise

  Photo: "Hera in orbit" by ESA – Science Office · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  India is one uncrewed test flight away from joining the human-spaceflight club

  Photo: "Gaganyaan module infographic (cropped)" by Dean Sumith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A monster black hole in an almost empty patch of the early universe is rewriting the origin story

  Photo: "Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Illustration (2023-010)" by ARTWORK: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA's next great observatory is ahead of schedule — and built to see wide, not just deep

  Photo: "Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft bus 01" by NASA/Chris Gunn · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Rocket Lab's bid to challenge the Falcon 9 is down to a few months — and a few tests

  Photo: "RocketLab Neutron ana kısımlar (en)" by CaglayanKutay (original), Soumya-8974 (translated work) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The first privately owned space station is almost ready — and the clock behind it is the ISS

  Photo: "Vast Haven-1 mockup interior" by Blervis · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  New Glenn blew up on the pad. Now NASA is decoupling its Moon plans from Blue Origin's rocket.

  Photo: "Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Successful Launch (9387524)" by U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A familiar crack: why the station's crew spent an afternoon inside a Dragon

  Photo: "The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour approaches the International Space Station (iss065e002722)" by NASA/Michael Hopkins · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Your June 2026 sky: a Venus–Jupiter near-miss, a maybe-meteor-outburst, and the Milky Way's core

  Photo: "In the photo there is one Perseid, Milky Way and Andromega galaxy and light pollution on the horizon - Luhasoo bog in Estonia" by Martin Mark · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The universe's hidden scaffolding, mapped in record detail

  Photo: "The FLAMINGO project – cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys" by Authors of the study: Schaye, Joop ; Kugel, Roi ; Schaller, Matthieu ; Helly, John C. ; Braspenning, Joey ; Elbers, Willem ; McCarthy, Ian G. ; van Daalen, Marcel P. ; Vandenbroucke, Bert ; Frenk, Carlos S. ; Kwan, Juliana ; Salcido, Jaime ; Bahé, Yannick M. ; Borrow, Josh ; Chaikin, Evgenii ; Hahn, Oliver ; Huško, Filip ; Jenkins, Adrian ; Lacey, Cedric G. ; Nobels, Folkert S. J. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  The race to bring Mars home — and why the U.S. might not win it

  Photo: "1st Perseverance Regolith Sample Atmo Mountain" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  NASA science is staring down a 47% cut — again. Here's where it actually stands.

  Photo: "NASA HQ Building" by NASA · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Starship's V3 debut: a working ship, a wrecked booster, and a grounded fleet

  Photo: "Starship SN9 Launch Pad and Build Site" by Jared Krahn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  An airplane, a robot, and a falling telescope: the strangest rescue NASA has ever attempted

  Photo: "Swift Observatory spacecraft model" by NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  11,000 asteroids in six weeks — and Rubin's real survey hasn't started yet

  Photo: "Vera C Rubin Observatory Telescope Mount Assembly (rubin-TMAfromAbove-CC)" by Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  On this planet it clouds over with vaporized rock by morning — and clears by night

  Photo: "Artist's impression of an ultra-short-period planet" by NASA, ESA and A. Schaller · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  A New Glenn explosion rattles Blue Origin — and NASA's Moon plans

  Image: NASA

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  China flies a new reusable rocket as its commercial push accelerates

  Image: NASA

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  The largest planetary spacecraft NASA ever built is bound for an ocean world

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  What to watch in the June 2026 sky: a planet parade and a vanishing Venus

  Image: NASA

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  Fifteen years on, Juno is still rewriting Jupiter

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  After 50 years, astronomers catch our galaxy's black hole exhaling

  Image: NASA/CXC

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  The most massive black hole pair ever found is hiding in a starless void

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA

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  Saturn now has 285 moons — and the count keeps climbing

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Webb peers into a nearby galaxy's heart and settles a 30-year argument

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA

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  Webb finds a black hole that grew too big, too fast, too early

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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  Why most satellites now fly on a faint blue glow

  Image: NASA

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  Why Mars landings are an unforgiving engineering problem

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Mars Sample Return: the architecture, and the reckoning

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  The Hubble tension: a 5-sigma crack in the standard model

  Photo: "Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)" by ESA and the Planck Collaboration · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Measuring a strain of 10⁻²¹: how gravitational-wave detectors work

  Image: NASA

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  The long road back to the Moon

  Image: NASA

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  From one solar system to six thousand worlds

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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  Why the most powerful telescope ever built has to freeze itself

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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  How landing boosters rewrote the economics of spaceflight

  Image: NASA/SpaceX

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  A beginner's guide to the naked-eye sky

  Photo: "N89 and N90 star formation bubbles" by NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.

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  Who actually runs space? A field guide to the agencies

  Image: NASA

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  By June, 2026 was already one of the busiest years in launch history

  Image: NASA/SpaceX

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  What a fleet of telescopes learned from our third interstellar visitor

  Image: NASA

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  A robot is about to grab an aging NASA telescope and push it higher

  Image: NASA

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  After 11 years mapping how Mars lost its air, MAVEN goes silent

  Image: NASA/GSFC

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  NASA is about to name its next Artemis crew

  Image: NASA

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  NASA's next great observatory, Roman, gets an August launch date

  Image: NASA

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  A giant galaxy that doesn't spin is forcing a rethink of how they form

  Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble

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  A nearby dwarf galaxy is a blueprint for the universe's first dust

  Image: NASA, ESA, CSA

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  Saturn's wandering spin was never real — Webb found the culprit

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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  On this hot Jupiter, rock clouds form by morning and burn off by night

  Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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