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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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Astronomy
After 50 years, astronomers catch our galaxy's black hole exhaling
Sagittarius A* is a famously quiet black hole, but new ALMA observations have finally revealed powerful winds streaming from it — the outflow astronomers spent half a century hunting for.
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Astronomy
The most massive black hole pair ever found is hiding in a starless void
Two ultramassive black holes totalling roughly 60 billion solar masses sit at the heart of a distant galaxy, spiralling toward a merger that would create one of the largest black holes known.
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Science & Discovery
Saturn now has 285 moons — and the count keeps climbing
A 2026 batch of discoveries pushed Saturn's moon tally to 285 and Jupiter's to 101. The new satellites are tiny, faint, and a sign that a new generation of survey telescopes is just getting started.
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Astronomy
Webb peers into a nearby galaxy's heart and settles a 30-year argument
Using a clever masking technique, Webb resolved the dusty core of the Circinus Galaxy and found that almost all its hot-dust glow comes from right beside the black hole — overturning a long-standing assumption.
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Astronomy
Webb finds a black hole that grew too big, too fast, too early
Inside a 'little red dot' just 570 million years after the Big Bang, Webb has caught a supermassive black hole feeding voraciously — and far too large for its host galaxy, deepening a puzzle about early cosmic growth.
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