The Atlantic
NASA's Roman Space Telescope aims to catch alien planets in visible light, because spotting a firefly next to a searchlight from miles away is apparently our best bet.
The Guardian Europe
Artemis II crew gets the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, Trump announces a space academy with no location, and everyone agrees Mars is next (shortly, of course).
The Guardian
NASA's $4.3B Roman telescope finally launches after surviving Trump's budget cuts, ready to find exoplanets and dark matter - if Florida weather cooperates.
Ars Technica
Trump announces a US Space Academy, because apparently the sky isn't the limit - it's just the beginning, and also a great place to put a college.
NASA
NASA updates grant rules with paperwork deadlines, a DEIA pause, and the usual bureaucratic hoop-jumping - now with 20% more acronyms.
Ars Technica
Europe funds startups, Louisiana becomes SpaceX's new playground, India's launch crisis deepens, and China delays its lunar mission - because space is never boring.
NASA
NASA's Landsat 9 shows that Congaree National Park is 80% floodplain, full of oxbow lakes, champion trees, and a history of being saved by mud and mosquitoes.
Ars Technica
NASA's T-38 jets get a new paint job for the Artemis era, because even astronaut trainers deserve a makeover before heading to the Moon.
NASA
NASA's Roman telescope is launching with 1.3 million names, a 300-megapixel camera, and a plan to see everything from exoplanets to dark energy - because why not?
NASA
NASA intern Lindsey Jacobson builds 'foresight' tools to keep Earth-observing satellites on track, because even space needs a contingency plan.
NASA
NASA unveils a new 34-meter antenna to keep talking to its spacecraft, because apparently space is full of things worth listening to.
NASA
Mars rover catches a moon doing a solar somersault, scientists use it to track the potato's inevitable doom.
NASA
NASA's MAIA sensors in Addis Ababa measure deadly PM2.5, finding that rush hour and holidays spike pollution, linked to 4.9 million global deaths yearly.
NASA
Ancient Lake Bonneville left behind salt flats, speed records, and a NASA test site for Venus - because why not?
Ars Technica
China's Chang'e 7 mission to the Moon's South Pole is delayed to 2027, likely due to Typhoon Narra, opening the door for Blue Origin's Blue Moon to potentially get there first.
NASA
NASA's rocket chemistry calculator gets a 21st-century makeover, trades 40% single-case slowdown for an 800x speedup on big sweeps, and finally learns to talk to Python.
NASA
NASA goes all out to document a solar eclipse: photographers, astronauts, a research jet, and balloons - because one perspective is never enough.
NASA
Four astronauts who flew around the Moon get shiny medals, because apparently that's a thing now, and Trump is handing them out.
SpaceNews
The White House's new space policy wants 1,000 launches a year by 2030, which is ambitious, unless you're counting on a lot of space junk.
NASA
NASA wants teens to know that fixing rocket carriers and research planes is a career option - and it involves more than just turning wrenches.
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