Ars Technica
Lego's new 1,252-piece Hubble Space Telescope model brings the cosmos to your desk, complete with hidden instruments and a tiny astronaut for scale.
SpaceNews
ESA turns a paused space station communications module into a standalone satellite, proving that in space, no good hardware goes to waste - just maybe delayed by a few years.
SpaceNews
ESA admits it doesn't have its own lunar maps and will buy them from the US, India, or China until it develops its own mapping capability for future missions.
NASA
Hubble takes a closer look at a 10-billion-year-old globular cluster, revealing it’s even more complicated than we thought - and making us feel appropriately insignificant.
SpaceNews
ESA drops €700M on sharper radar eyes for Copernicus and greenlights a 'Fast' mission named after a fictional desert planet, because space bureaucracy loves a good literary reference.
SpaceNews
ESA and China successfully launch joint SMILE magnetosphere mission after a decade, but officials avoid committing to future cooperation despite overlapping goals - because budgets, geopolitics, and parallel plans make for awkward second dates.
NASA
The Euclid telescope has too many galaxy photos for scientists to handle, so they're recruiting humans to train an AI to spot cosmic clumps - no space suit required.
Ars Technica
China's rocket bodies are cluttering low-Earth orbit at an alarming rate, while the rest of the spacefaring world slowly cleans up its act.
SpaceNews
After a decade of preparations and delays, ESA and China are launching a spacecraft to study Earth's magnetic shield - because apparently, our planet's invisible force field needs a check-up.
ScienceDaily
A 1,300-kilometer Martian valley gives scientists more evidence that Mars once had an ocean, because apparently being a dry, cold desert wasn't always the vibe.
NASA
NASA, ESA, and USGS release a 47-page document on how to properly assess satellite photos, because even space needs quality control.
SpaceNews
ESA and JAXA sign a deal to study an asteroid that will buzz Earth in 2029, because nothing brings humanity together like a big space rock that definitely, probably won't kill us.
SpaceNews
NASA has chosen a Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover it's trying to cancel in its own budget, because why make things simple?
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