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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found that the ring system around the small solar system body Chariklo is more complex than previously thought. Chariklo is a Centaur obje

China’s Tianwen-3 mission is planned to become the first mission to deliberately collect Mars samples and return them to Earth. A 2025 *Nature Astronomy* perspective led by chief scientist Hou Zengqia

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully separated from the second stage of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy at 7:57 a.m. EDT and is now flying independently. The separation marks the transition

August features a major celestial event: the Perseids meteor shower, which peaks on the night of August 12 into the early morning of August 13. Visible in the northern hemisphere and parts of the sout

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only place besides Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. It features rivers, rain, clouds, lakes, and seas formed by a methane-based hydrological cycle

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only place besides Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface, but its landscape is shaped by a very different substance: liquid methane and ethane instead o

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a far more detailed and unusual view of Centaurus A, a nearby active galaxy about 11 million light-years from Earth. Released to mark Webb’s fourth scien

NASA’s overview of galaxy evolution explains that galaxies have been studied in great detail through deep-space observations such as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which revealed about 10,000 galaxies a

SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is an ESA–China mission scheduled for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 19 May 2026 aboard a Vega-C rocket. Its main goal is

NASA has been leading the exploration of Mars, particularly in the search for signs of past microbial life, through its Perseverance rover. In July 2024, the rover discovered a unique rocky outcrop wi

NASA's IMAP mission successfully reached Lagrange point 1 (L1), about 1 million miles from Earth, on January 10, 2023. From this stable position, IMAP will map the heliosphere and study interactions b

NASA has recently lost contact with its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which was last heard from on December 6, 2023. MAVEN, launched in 2013, has significantly outlived it

The year 2025 brought significant and unexpected developments in the military space sector, as highlighted in a review by Breaking Defense. 1. **ESA's Defense Role**: The European Space Agency (ESA)