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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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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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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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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
