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Sep 14, 2025
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Most Compelling Evidence of Past Life on Mars and Earth's AI-Driven Digital Twin. This Week in Space: China’s Apophis Mission, Water on Ryugu, Black Hole Recoil, NASA Protests, and Kazakhstan Space Updates. Plus: Anduril's Defense Role, Rocket Cargo Delivery, Hypersonic Tracking, Mixed Reality Military Gear, Boeing's 3D Printed Solar Array Substrate, Apex Space's Unicorn Status, Retrofitting OneWeb, D2D Updates, Intense Solar Flares, and More.

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Sep 7, 2025
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We Now Have a Simpler Way to Make Oxygen in Space. This Week in Space: A Rectangular Telescope, 3I/ATLAS’ Growing Tail, ISRO’s Parachute Test, New NASA Administrator, and the US-China Lunar Race. Plus: Starship Launch Concerns in Florida, Space Force’s AI and Smallsat Strategy, China’s Military Parade, Kuiper’s First Airline Client, ExxonMobil’s Methane Monitoring, and More.

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Aug 31, 2025
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White House Removes Labor Protections for NASA Workforce; Harassment Crisis Unfolds in Antarctica. This Week in Space: A Newborn Planet, Solar Flares Imaging, and NASA-IBM's AI Model to Predict Space Weather. Plus: Ryugu’s Ancient Chemistry, Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS, and a New Dark Matter Detector. Mouse Stem Cells Survive Spaceflight and Birth Healthy Pups. China’s Guangdong Unveils Bold Space Plans; AFWERX and DoD Expand Funding. Also: Starship’s Milestone Flight, Belgian Aerspacelab’s IRIS2 Bid, Rocket Lab’s U.S. Expansion, Hypervelocity White Dwarfs, Collapsing Exoplanets, and More.

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Aug 24, 2025
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A Comet May be Responsible Earth’s Water & Starlink to Help Cut Astronomy Interference — This Week in Space: Sun‐Synchronous Orbits, Sinus Issues on the ISS, Uranus’s New Moon; Russian Biosatellite Launch, Korean Cubesat on Artemis 2, Mexican ThumbSat on China’s CAS Space Launch. Plus: Portuguese Spaceport; NASA to Reduce Focus on Climate Science; Schriever Wargames Updates, X‐37B Launch, Space Cotan‐Firefly MoU, Platinum Equity‐Anuvu Takeover, Ancient Starburst Galaxy, Mysterious Radio Bursts & More.

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Aug 17, 2025
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The Eye Of Sauron Is Staring At Us — This Week In Space: What If Life Doesn’t Need Water After All? Dive Into MEO Dynamics, A TRAPPIST Update, NASA’s PUNCH Reaching Final Orbit, & President Trump’s New Executive Order. Plus: Rocket Lab Acquires Geost, Space Force Absorbs Air Force National Guard Units, AUKUS Deep-Space Radar Goes Live, Impulse Space Unveils Caravan, iSpace Unveils China's First Reusable Booster Recovery Barge, Remedy for NASA Swift’s Orbital Decay, Canada's First Commercial Spaceport & Much More.

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Aug 10, 2025
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The Most Massive Black Hole Ever Detected Weighs 36 Billion Suns — This Week in Space: A 70-Year Probe to a Black Hole, Solar Mirrors for Asteroid Detection, Spectral Contamination Repurposed, China's Lunar Lander Test & Mars Sample Return, Moon Reactor Plans, & Golden Dome Updates. Plus: Commercial Space Stations, Astroscale’s Patent, NASA’s OTV Contracts, Skyrora’s UK License, Global Bluetooth Network & More.

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Aug 3, 2025
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53 min read
Unprecedented Widespread Freshwater Decline Is Impacting 75% of the Global Population, & Prebiotic Chemistry Is Detected in Space — This Week in Space: Explore the GEO Belt, Exploding Glaciers, Blazars, Starlink’s Astronomical Impact, Super Earth K2-18 Updates, & the NASA–Roscosmos Meeting. Plus: X-37B’s New Mission, Slingshot’s Autonomous AI Agent, Launch Updates from iSpace & Gilmour, a Reinvented Double-Slit Experiment, & More.

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Jul 27, 2025
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52 min read
Snowfall in a Chilean Desert & a Newborn Planet — This Week in Space: Betelgeuse Has a Mate, CosmoCube, and the First Antimatter Qubit — Plus: NASA–ISRO, Russia–Iran Launches, South Korean Lunar Base, the Climate Tipping Point, Ocean Heatwaves, Marine Protection Outcomes, Spain's Thirty Meter Telescope Interest, China’s Oversight Standards, Bioplastics for Space & More

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Jul 20, 2025
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50 min read
Earth-Size Worlds May Be Less Common Than Expected — This Week in Space: INVICTUS Spaceplane, Record Breaking Cargo Shipment to the Chinese Space Station, Oxygen & Water From Lunar Soil, Black Hole Merger, & TRACERS Mission. Plus: Trump Admin Makes Climate Report Unavailable, Science Budget Debate in the US, NASA Protest, Space Force Updates, AX-4 Return, Satellite Services & UK's GDP, SES-Intelsat Merger.

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Jul 13, 2025
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49 min read
Aliens Might Be Listening to Earth’s Airports — Or We’re in a Quiet Cosmic Neighborhood. This Week in Space: China’s Orbital Servicing & Neptune Mission, NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Hurdle, a New Interstellar Visitor, Budgetary Support for NASA & TRACSS, Starlink in India, Space Force Exercises, GAO Oversight, Japan's Expansion in Space, and More.

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Jul 7, 2025
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Google, Bezos Funded Climate-Monitoring Satellite Fails Prematurely — This Week in Space News: Images of a Stellar Detonation, Magma Pulsations Under Ethiopia, Ryugu Updates, TraCSS Heading for Cancellation, DARPA's Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Program, USAF Hypersonic Rocket Cargo Project Updates, Organic Molecules in Deep Space & More

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Jun 29, 2025
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World’s Firsts: Images From World's Largest Digital Camera & Photographed Exoplanets — This Week in Space: Bolivian Forests, Mexico-SpaceX Fallout, Shoes Designed in Orbit, NSF Eviction, Uninsured Satellites, Space Force Budget, ULA's Government Compliant Chatbot -RocketGPT, Maxar’s Sentry, Lunar Dust, Radiation-Proof Lichens & More
