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NASA Prepares Three August Spacewalks Outside the ISS
NASA has scheduled three U.S. spacewalks for August, turning routine-looking maintenance into a reminder of the planning behind an orbital laboratory.
Jul 28, 2026
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning as Hubble Maps Lenses for It
Roman has finished its initial checkout and can guide, image and slew, NASA says. On the same day Hubble released a lens image meant to teach astronomers how to read Roman's wide views.
Oct 23, 2026
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NASA Ends the Swift Mission After Nearly 22 Years as Its Orbit Decays and Re-Entry Looms
Swift saw over 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and fed some 7,000 papers; drag from a more active Sun pulled it down to 275 km, where its telescopes could no longer hold steady, and NASA stopped science.
Oct 25, 2026
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NASA's Crew-12 Splashed Down Off California After 237 Days in Space
Dragon Freedom touched down in the Pacific at 8:34 a.m. Pacific time on 8 October with four crew members, ending a flight that included 235 days on the International Space Station.
Oct 9, 2026
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NASA's Dragonfly Flies Its Hardest Titan Manoeuvre, Autonomously, in Its Most Thorough Simulation Yet
On flight-like computers in Maryland, the rotorcraft separated, scanned a field of Titan dunes and set itself down with no help from the ground, ahead of a launch no earlier than 2028.
Oct 26, 2026
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Saturn Has Grown a Ten-Sided Storm at Its South Pole, and Nobody Saw It Start
Hubble has confirmed a decagon riding a jet stream around Saturn's south pole, each side longer than Earth is wide. The northern hexagon has been there for forty years. This one was not there in 2022.
Sep 6, 2026
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An Amateur Astronomer Scouting a Quebec Campsite Led Scientists to a 390-Million-Year-Old Impact Crater
Joel Lapointe spotted an odd circular feature on satellite maps while planning a trip near Lake Marsal in 2024, and the tip led researchers to confirm a 25-kilometre impact structure now named Uhackatik.
Sep 29, 2026
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A Sahara Meteorite Is at Least 4.1 Billion Years Old and May Be the Oldest Known Piece of Mars
A study in Science dates the Sahara meteorite Teghaza 001 to more than 4.1 billion years, a rare sample of early Martian crust that also shows signs of ancient water.
Oct 30, 2026
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The Telescope Launching This Month Sees a Patch of Sky a Hundred Times Wider Than Hubble's
Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.
Aug 21, 2026
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Giant Canyon on Mars Is Still Tectonically Active, Study of a 2021 Marsquake Finds
Re-reading a quake NASA's InSight lander recorded in 2021, researchers place it in an ancient fault under Valles Marineris and say the planet's crust still breaks along old scars.
Oct 22, 2026
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Japan Launches MMX to Bring Back the First Samples From Mars' Moon Phobos
A five-agency mission lifted off from Tanegashima before dawn on Tuesday, and will reach Mars in 2027 and aim to return at least 10 grams of Phobos soil to Earth in 2031.
Oct 22, 2026
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Cassini's Old Data Just Showed How Enceladus Sorts Its Ocean Chemistry Into Different Ice Grains
A reanalysis of nearly a thousand ice grain spectra from Saturn's icy moon found that freezing droplets separate salts into distinct pockets, a sorting process that could make it far easier for a future probe to detect organic chemistry from its hidden ocean.
Oct 1, 2026
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Mars's Strangest Cloud May Freeze Straight From Vapour With No Dust Seed, a New Study Suggests
A 1,800-kilometre ribbon of ice that forms each morning over a Martian volcano defied standard cloud physics until researchers let water vapour crystallise on its own.
Oct 29, 2026
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Astronomers Say a Pulsar's Odd Slowdown Is Explained by a Hidden Sunlike Star, Making It a Rare Stellar Trio
China's FAST radio telescope tracked the millisecond pulsar for nearly five years. A distant star's pull seems to account for much of why it appeared to spin down so fast.
Oct 21, 2026
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Can Gravitational Fields Break and Reconnect? A New Physical Review D Paper Says Einstein's Equations Allow It
Columbia's Luca Comisso and a Chilean colleague borrow from plasma physics to show gravity's field structures may snap and rejoin, moving energy into matter. It is theory, with tests still to come.
Oct 28, 2026
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Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge
Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.
Oct 18, 2026
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Andromeda Is Slowly Winding Down Its Star-Making Era
Hubble observations show star formation across Andromeda has declined for roughly 500 million years, offering a detailed preview of how a large spiral galaxy changes with age.
Aug 1, 2026
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Falcon's 700th Flight, Europe's Plant-Fluorescence Satellite, and Djibouti Signs the Artemis Accords: A Weekend in Orbit
SpaceX completed SES's medium-orbit constellation on a booster flying for the twenty-ninth time. Vega-C put FLEX, the first satellite built to watch photosynthesis, into orbit with Sentinel-3C. And a Red Sea state became the seventy-second signatory.
Sep 15, 2026
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China Is Sending a Lander, a Rover and a Hopper to the Lunar South Pole on Monday
Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.
Aug 21, 2026
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They Have Photographed the Star Hiding Inside Betelgeuse, and They Still Are Not Certain It Is There
The clearest picture yet of Betelgeuse B was taken with the Very Large Telescope. The caveat almost all the coverage dropped is the astronomer's own: he cannot be sure until he sees it again on the other side of the star, a year from now.
Aug 28, 2026
