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Science & Discovery
The universe's hidden scaffolding, mapped in record detail
Using the largest survey JWST has yet undertaken, astronomers placed 164,000 galaxies onto the most detailed map ever made of the cosmic web — the filamentary skeleton along which all structure in the universe is strung.
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Missions
The race to bring Mars home — and why the U.S. might not win it
NASA has already cached the rocks; it just can't agree on how to retrieve them. China, meanwhile, has set a date. The contest to return the first samples from Mars has quietly become a two-horse race with the favorite stumbling.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA science is staring down a 47% cut — again. Here's where it actually stands.
The White House's 2027 request would gut NASA's science directorate and cancel roughly half its missions. It is also the second year in a row Congress has signaled it won't go along. Untangling the proposal from the likely outcome.
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Commercial
Starship's V3 debut: a working ship, a wrecked booster, and a grounded fleet
Flight 12 introduced the larger Starship V3 and got further than the headlines suggest — the ship flew its mission. But the booster crashed, the FAA has ordered a mishap investigation, and the capability Artemis is waiting for still hasn't been shown.
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Missions
An airplane, a robot, and a falling telescope: the strangest rescue NASA has ever attempted
NASA's Swift observatory is sinking toward reentry. The plan to save it involves a robotic spacecraft, a rocket dropped from a jet over the Pacific — and the last flight of a launcher that ends an entire category of spaceflight.
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Science & Discovery
11,000 asteroids in six weeks — and Rubin's real survey hasn't started yet
From a month and a half of warm-up data, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already logged more new asteroids than the rest of the world found all year. Once the ten-year survey begins in earnest, that figure becomes a rounding error.
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Astronomy
On this planet it clouds over with vaporized rock by morning — and clears by night
Using JWST, astronomers caught a hot Jupiter changing its weather between dawn and dusk: silicate clouds on the morning limb, clear skies on the evening one. It is the first repeating cloud cycle ever measured on another world.
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Commercial
A New Glenn explosion rattles Blue Origin — and NASA's Moon plans
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket detonated during a test on May 28, gutting its launch pad. The company vows to fly again this year; NASA warns the pad itself may not recover until 2028 — with consequences for Artemis.
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Commercial
China flies a new reusable rocket as its commercial push accelerates
The maiden flight of the Long March 12B on June 1 marks another step in China's drive toward reusable launchers — and another entrant in an increasingly crowded global market for cheap access to orbit.
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Missions
The largest planetary spacecraft NASA ever built is bound for an ocean world
Europa Clipper, launched in 2024, is cruising toward a 2030 arrival at Jupiter, where it will make nearly 50 flybys of the icy moon Europa to judge whether its hidden ocean could support life.
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Stargazing
What to watch in the June 2026 sky: a planet parade and a vanishing Venus
June brings the two brightest planets together at dusk, a Moon that briefly hides Venus, the summer solstice, and the long, deep-sky nights that follow. Here's what to look for and when.
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Missions
Fifteen years on, Juno is still rewriting Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in extended operations, made a close pass of the small moon Thebe in May — the latest in a mission that has overturned much of what we thought we knew about the giant planet.
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