Euclid Maps the Milky Way's Stellar Heartland at Record Resolution
A single image packing over 60 million stars: ESA's Euclid telescope has mapped the Milky Way's galactic bulge in unprecedented detail, layi…
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Starliner's Return to Flight: Committed but Without a Date
NASA and Boeing are standing behind Starliner despite an unresolved technical picture. Safety advisers say the capsule could remain grounded…
SpaceX debuts Starfall reentry capsule in orbital demonstration
SpaceX lifted off from Cape Canaveral with Starfall, a brand-new reentry capsule weighing around 2,100 kg. The demonstration mission marks t…
NASA Confirms Sean Gallagher as Permanent Chief Information Officer
Sean Gallagher has been formally appointed NASA's Chief Information Officer, ending an interim period that began in January. The role puts h…
Webb Telescope Reads the Chemical Story of Comet 3I/ATLAS
Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar visitor ever detected, has yielded its chemical secrets to the James Webb Space Telescope. Its u…
Trump's Quantum Space Order: Washington Bets on a Strategic Frontier
The White House has signed an executive order to speed up quantum technology development for space applications, from tamper-evident communi…
DAPHNE: NASA targets the atmosphere-ionosphere frontier
NASA has chosen the DAPHNE mission concept to investigate how space weather and Earth's own atmospheric dynamics shape the near-space enviro…
Hubble probes the turbulent inner lives of galaxy clusters
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze on two remarkable galaxy clusters: one caught mid-collision, the other bending light from …
Space weather and Earth observation: two milestones in orbital science
Within hours of each other, ESA celebrated its thousandth Earth from Space image and NASA greenlit the DAPHNE mission concept to probe how s…
SpaceX Lifts Off With Classified NRO Satellites From Vandenberg
SpaceX targeted a pre-dawn window on June 19 to orbit a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. The mission, likely carry…
El Niño 2026: NASA satellites track a strengthening Pacific signal
NASA satellite altimetry data confirmed in June 2026 that the current El Niño event is continuing to build strength. The orbital readings of…
Terzan 5: A Living Fossil at the Core of the Milky Way
Astronomers long catalogued Terzan 5 as a routine globular cluster. A combined campaign with the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes has …
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