Humans have always gazed up at the moon in wonder. A generation ago, NASA astronauts did the extraordinary and touched down on its surface, planting an American flag and igniting […] The post America’s next economic frontier is 240,000...

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China continued its accelerated launch pace with a series of missions, but long silence followed liftoff of a Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket Wednesday, suggesting potential issues. The post China conducts 4 launches in 3 days, but silence follows Kuaizhou–11 launch...

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Dawn Aerospace has raised $25 million to scale up its work in both in-space transportation and suborbital spaceplanes. The post Dawn Aerospace raises $25 million appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Space surveillance venture Look Up plans to use Skynopy’s ground station network to help automate its proposed low Earth orbit collision avoidance service, the French startups announced June 17. The post Look Up and Skynopy partner on automated satellite...

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The European Space Agency Council has approved the appointment of two new directors: Christine Klein as Director of Controlling, Finance and Operational Procurement, and Jean-Luc Trullemans as Director of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs.

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ESA Impact: a look at ESA’s spring milestones

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The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured part of Mars’s Mamers Valles: a fascinating valley system speckled with brief, tornado-like whirlwinds known as dust devils.

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NASA mishap investigation says a culture of personal heroics helped cause a $4.6 million Deep Space Network antenna failure in 2025.

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Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.

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See the Moon phase expected for June 17, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected.

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One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close...

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Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASA’s new lunar base ambitions. The post Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth,...

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MILAN — Switzerland’s decision not to participate in the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program during the 2028–2034 funding cycle has revived a broader debate over the value of contributing […] The post Swiss decision to not contribute to...

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Researchers have confirmed a new class of objects within our Milky Way galaxy: survivors called 'bulge fossil fragments.' Terzan 5 is the prototype of these remnants of our galaxy's early formation. Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and...

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Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how...

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies. By leveraging the unique environment...

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Our ongoing list of current private space companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more. The post The SpaceNews space unicorn tracker appeared first on SpaceNews.

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