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Spotlight highlights recent groundbreaking scientific studies and discoveries in space science. It covers innovative research, key findings, and their implications for our understanding of the universe.
Issue 84 | Breaking Space News: Jan 5 - 11, 2026
RNA May Have Assembled Under Ancient Prebiotic Earth Conditions Without Enzymes Or Cells. The Week In Space: US Lawmakers Have Approved A $24.4 Billion NASA Budget For FY 2026, Rejecting Trump Administration’s Proposed Science Cuts. Cave Training For Chinese Astronauts, The Fastest-Spinning Asteroid, Starless Dark-Matter, And NASA Preps Early Astronaut Return From ISS Due To Medical Emergency. Plus: FCC Has Approved 7,500 More Starlink Satellites, SecWar Hegseth On His "Arsenal Of Freedom" Tour, India’s Unsuccessful PSLV Launch, SkyFi’s On-Demand Access To Vantor’s Imagery And More.
Issue 83 | Breaking Space News: Dec 29, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026
US Scientific Capacity May Take a Hit as Trump Admin Moves to Break-Up NCAR for "Climate Alarmism." The Week in Space: More Space Debris Incidents, ESA Hit by a Cyberattack, Iran, UAE Launch Satellites on a Russian Rideshare, Chinese Launch Updates, and Space Force's Vandenberg Expansion Plans for Heavy-Lift Vehicles. Plus: First-Ever Furnace Ignited in Space at 1000°C and Free‐Floating Exoplanet Detected and Measured.
Issue 79 | Breaking Space News: Dec 1 - 7, 2025
Menstrual Cups Successfully Tested in Spaceflight. This Week in Space News: Clocks on Mars Run Faster Than on Earth, ISS Hosts Eight Spacecraft, Microbes Could Transform Martian Soil for 3D‐Printed Habitats, Sugars and Polymers Found on Bennu, and Solar Insights Unearthed from Ancient Chinese Texts. Plus: Russian Cosmonaut Removed from SpaceX Flight, Missile Defense Agency Awards Contracts to Over 1,000 Companies, and Hypersonics, GEO Satellites, Nuclear Microreactors Draw Major Space and Defense Investment.
Issue 78 | Breaking Space News: Nov 24 - 30, 2025
Now Germany Wants to Militarize Space, to "Limit the Use of Space by Adversaries." This Week in Space News: We May Have Finally Spotted Dark Matter, New Insight on What Space Weather Does to Our Protective Shield. Plus: US-China Space-Race Heats Up with the RACE Act And Regulatory Changes in China, ESA Approves Massive Funding, US to Prototype Space-Based Interceptors, Amazon's Starlink Competition and Much More.
Issue 76 | Breaking Space News: Nov 09 - 16, 2025
Massive Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun, Triggered Geomagnetic Turbulence, Auroras and Disruption in the Space Industry. This Week in Space News — The Fall of Icarus, Scars from a Martian Ice Age, Volcanic Plumes, Food from Thin Air in Spaceflight, Soft‐Robotic Exosuits, and Planets Generating Their Own Water. Also: Amazon’s Project Kuiper Rebrand, China’s Launch Record, Orbital Manufacturing, Dream Chaser Updates, and More.
Issue 74 | Breaking Space News: Oct 26 - Nov 01, 2025
Earth is on the Brink as Pace of Climate Change Outstrips Mitigation Efforts. This Week in Space News: Behold the Eye of Melissa and the Red Spider Nebula. First 3D Exoplanet Atmosphere Map, 3I/ATLAS Updates and the End of Human Activity at Venus. Plus: SpaceX and Cards Against Humanity Settle Trespassing Lawsuit, and More.
Issue 73 | Breaking Space News: Oct 19 - 25, 2025
In Militarization of Space, Apex, a US Defense Contractor, Wants to Demonstrate Storage and Deployment of Missiles in Orbit. This Week in Space News: Beautiful, Haunting Images of Glacier Retreat in Chile, Smoking Space Debris in Australia and the Largest Galaxy Cluster Catalog Yet. Risks of Orbital Mirrors and Sunlight Dimming. Plus: NASA Wants to Rethink SpaceX's Artemis III Contract, Impossible Chemistry on Titan, and More.
Issue 72 | Breaking Space News: Oct 12 - 18, 2025
Low Earth Orbit Nears Satellite Congestion Tipping Point (Unsurprisingly). New Space Armor Promises Protection Against Debris at 17,000 MPH. This Week in Space: Dark Object Photographed, Record Ocean Swells, Expanding Magnetic Weak Spots, and Indian Citizen Scientists Spot a Massive ORC. Plus JPL Layoffs, EU and US Defense Updates, Impulse’s New Lander, and More.
Issue 69 | Breaking Space News: Sept 21 - 27, 2025
The Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Contains 3.4 Billion Galaxies — This Week in Space News: Glimpse of an Eclipse from Space, Space-Based Tsunami Detection, Deep Space Laser Links Across 218 Million Miles, Russia's "Noah's Ark" Capsule and US Concerns Over China's Growth in Space. Plus: Liquid Uranium Propulsion and Nuclear Batteries, a Space‐Based Semiconductor Supply Chain and the Nearest ET Intelligence May be 33,000 Light Years Away.
Issue 68 | Breaking Space News: Sept 14 - 20, 2025
A New AI Tool That Models the Universe on a Laptop, and a New Way to Knock Space Junk Out of Orbit. This Week in Space: Space Travel Accelerates Aging, a 3D Map of Our Cosmic Neighborhood, Rising Exoplanet Counts, and Hayabusa’s 2031 Sojourn to a Tiny Asteroid. Plus: Ukraine Destroys Russia-Controlled Telescope, US–UK Satellite Maneuver, Axiom’s On-Orbit Datacenters, Maxar–Ecopia Mapping, VIPER’s Revival, and More.
Issue 67 | Breaking Space News: Sept 07 - 13, 2025
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.
Issue 66 | Breaking Space News: Aug 31 - Sept 06, 2025
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.