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Space Exploration this week: A new study in Science Advances shows that seismic waves from moonquakes can detect and map buried lunar ice by; and A meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey home in July 2024 has been identified as a…

Space Exploration this week: NASA-funded teams will chase the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain using a; and NASA’s Swift Observatory confirmed a tidal disruption event 30,000 light-years from a…

Space Exploration this week: SpaceX’s 13th Starship test flight ended with an intact, buoyant splashdown in the Indian Ocean, giving engineers; and New multi-instrument observations of Jupiter’s irregular moon Kallichore, combining Hubble…

Space Exploration this week: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft executed a daring flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Torifune on July 5, passing just 800; and China achieved its first orbital-class booster recovery on July 10, 2026, using a…

Space Exploration this week: The James Webb Space Telescope has released new images of Centaurus A, revealing millions of individual stars in its; and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released new mid- and near-infrared images of the…

How Planets Survive Stellar Death and New Discoveries this week: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team observed the Jupiter-sized exoplanet WD 1856 b; and This matters for Space Exploration because it gives a…

NASA’s Moon Base and Lunar Technology Plans this week: NASA has awarded nearly $600 million to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines for four new CLPS; and NASA has announced a new solicitation under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus…

Hubble and Webb’s Stunning Cosmic Fireworks this week: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the stellar nursery LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud; and NASA released a Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster…

NASA awarded nearly $600 million across three companies for four robotic lunar lander missions supporting its developing base ambitions.

NASA awarded nearly $600 million across three companies for four robotic lunar lander missions supporting its developing base ambitions.