
Boeing’s Starliner set for potential 2026 cargo run to ISS
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has noted redesign work on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is… The post Boeing’s Starliner set for potential…
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Weekly digests · 27 Jul – 2 Aug 2026
41 stories that week, most of them about the solar system, black holes, telescopes & instruments.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has noted redesign work on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is… The post Boeing’s Starliner set for potential…

MaiaSpace has scrapped plans to conduct a suborbital test flight of its Maia rocket, opting instead to proceed straight to a full…

ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden, providing the…

Spain has offered a package worth up to €1 billion to support the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on La…

As the Pacific Ocean moves into an El Niño phase, scientists are monitoring changes in sea-surface temperature, but also sea-surface salinity –…

The European Space Agency's two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations.
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To mark Europe’s newest generation heavy‑lift launcher, La Poste, France’s national postal service, has issued a collector set…
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station…
At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night…
A recent Focus Issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters introduces the fourth version of the gravitational wave transient…
Astrobites reports on the interplay between the interstellar medium and star formation in simulated galaxies.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures.
A black hole observed during a dramatic 2023 eruption did not simply devour gas from its nearby companion…
A recent study investigated the possible mechanisms that caused a known Jupiter-family comet to split in two.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are back on Earth after spending 241 days aboard the…
Image: These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west…
A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region…
Nir Guttman et al 2026 ApJ 996 144 An analysis of the fourth gravitational wave catalog supports the…
Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive.
What powers the prominent helium emission from Hebe, a gas clump seen just 450 million years after the…
NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the…
Europa’s hidden ocean has made the icy moon one of the solar system’s most promising places to search…
Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space will join the European Space Agency’s…
Image: This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of…
Dark matter particles may exert a hidden force on one another, but its effects are stranger than expected.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aced its Mars flyby, using the planet’s gravity to speed toward its 2029 encounter with…
Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while…
Mars has two small, rocky, irregular moons. Exploring them could solve long-standing mysteries about the Solar System's history.
Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions.
Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus.