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NASA has named eight competitors for a lunar-delivery framework worth up to $10 billion and advanced a nuclear-powered Moon rover, but the contract ceiling is not money already spent.
Two newly confirmed asteroids and a candidate in Neptune’s trailing Trojan cloud offer the clearest view yet of a population long obscured by the crowded star fields toward the Milky Way’s centre.
A physics-based image-processing method has recovered a known giant planet from JWST observations that standard starlight subtraction left unresolved.
China has confirmed a Pakistani payload specialist for Shenzhou-24 and a return aboard Shenzhou-23. The astronaut’s identity and the launch date remain officially unannounced.
Europe has unveiled its new weather satellite’s first views. Faster cloud scans are promising, but the spacecraft remains in testing and the impact on warnings is unmeasured.
After more than two decades of scientific observations, Swift has been shut down and is approaching atmospheric re-entry. The failed rescue attempt exposes hard choices in maintaining satellites.
Google's Genie 4 can generate interactive scenes with synchronized audio and real-time changes. The bigger story is what a two-minute simulated world can—and cannot—teach us.
Project Suncatcher returned an AI-generated response from orbit. The result is real, but cooling, radiation, reliability and networking are still open questions.