Going Underground: ESA Trains Astronauts Deep in Cave Systems
Far from any high-tech simulator, ESA is sending its astronauts underground. Cave training has become a rigorous method for building the tea…
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Botswana Becomes the 68th Nation to Sign the Artemis Accords
Botswana signed the Artemis Accords on June 25, 2026, at NASA headquarters in Washington. The country is now the sixth African nation to for…
ISS crews reunite in Houston as ESA's SMILE enters science orbit
Expedition 73 astronauts gathered in Houston to mark their return from the ISS, while ESA's SMILE spacecraft reached its operational science…
Euclid Maps the Milky Way's Stellar Heartland at Record Resolution
A single image packing over 60 million stars: ESA's Euclid telescope has mapped the Milky Way's galactic bulge in unprecedented detail, layi…
Starliner's Return to Flight: Committed but Without a Date
NASA and Boeing are standing behind Starliner despite an unresolved technical picture. Safety advisers say the capsule could remain grounded…
SpaceX debuts Starfall reentry capsule in orbital demonstration
SpaceX lifted off from Cape Canaveral with Starfall, a brand-new reentry capsule weighing around 2,100 kg. The demonstration mission marks t…
NASA Confirms Sean Gallagher as Permanent Chief Information Officer
Sean Gallagher has been formally appointed NASA's Chief Information Officer, ending an interim period that began in January. The role puts h…
Webb Telescope Reads the Chemical Story of Comet 3I/ATLAS
Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar visitor ever detected, has yielded its chemical secrets to the James Webb Space Telescope. Its u…
Trump's Quantum Space Order: Washington Bets on a Strategic Frontier
The White House has signed an executive order to speed up quantum technology development for space applications, from tamper-evident communi…
DAPHNE: NASA targets the atmosphere-ionosphere frontier
NASA has chosen the DAPHNE mission concept to investigate how space weather and Earth's own atmospheric dynamics shape the near-space enviro…
Hubble probes the turbulent inner lives of galaxy clusters
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze on two remarkable galaxy clusters: one caught mid-collision, the other bending light from …
Space weather and Earth observation: two milestones in orbital science
Within hours of each other, ESA celebrated its thousandth Earth from Space image and NASA greenlit the DAPHNE mission concept to probe how s…
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