Space

Japan’s next‑gen cargo ship launched on H3, delivered on schedule, and keeps flying for months as a testbed—tightening the ISS supply chain today and training for Gateway tomorrow.

China's Tianwen-2 is en route to Earth's quasi-moon Kamoʻoalewa to bring home samples in 2027, then chase active comet 311P. Here is how this mission could confirm a lunar-fragment origin and reset small-body science, cislunar traffic norms, and prospecting.

On October 20, 2025, JWST’s MIRI caught five complex organics frozen around a newborn star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, including the first secure ice detection of acetic acid. The find resets the timeline for prebiotic chemistry in harsh, low‑metallicity environments.

Two small ESA spacecraft are now creating hours-long artificial solar eclipses in orbit, opening the inner corona to routine study and promising sharper, earlier space-weather forecasts for operators on Earth.

Two late-summer flights turned Starship from spectacle into service. Here is how proven dummy deployments, tougher heat shields, and near-complete booster recovery set up rideshare payloads, depot demos, and cheaper cislunar logistics in 2026.

NASA's 2025 reboot invites firm fixed price, industry-led architectures. From a lean Lockheed lander to a potential Starship-assisted delivery, the new playbook aims to bring Perseverance's samples home in the 2030s while cutting cost and risk.

Peer-reviewed results released January 29, 2025 from NASA's OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample reveal abundant organics, ammonia-bearing compounds, all five nucleobases, and unusually pure, water-soluble phosphates. Here is why that shifts prebiotic chemistry from speculation to testable recipes and how the community can turn a headline into a foundation in 180 days.

Euclid’s first public data are already changing dark matter science. Uniform imaging, open archives, and AI are turning strong lensing and galaxy morphology into high-throughput discovery, with Roman poised to accelerate the pace.

Launched on September 24, 2025, NASA’s IMAP is cruising to L1 with NOAA’s SWFO-L1 and NASA’s Carruthers observatory to turn last-minute solar alerts into mission-planning forecasts for Artemis and future Mars crews.

On June 23, 2025, the Vera Rubin Observatory proved the sky can talk back in near real time. Here is how brokers, AI, and fast follow-up are about to change planetary defense and transient astronomy for everyone from labs to backyard observers.

As 3I/ATLAS sweeps past Mars toward Jupiter, space agencies are syncing Mars orbiters, ESA’s JUICE, and NASA’s Europa Clipper to watch its coma and tails in real time. The goal is a reusable playbook for the next interstellar visitor.

Launched in March 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx has taken first-light images and begun a two-year, 102-color all-sky infrared survey. Over the next year it will map water and organics, sharpen inflation-era cosmology, and supercharge rapid follow-ups with JWST, Euclid, and Rubin.

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on May 29, 2025 toward Kamoʻoalewa, an Earth quasi-moon. If it returns about 100 grams by late 2027, the sample could test the lunar-fragment idea and reshape plans for chemistry, defense, and exploration.

After reaching orbit on January 16, 2025, Blue Origin’s New Glenn is racing toward a second act: sending NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes on a fast, lower-cost ride to Mars in an early November window. Here’s how a commercial heavy lifter, smallcraft design, and transfer vehicles are compressing deep-space timelines.

A summer of interagency laser links turned a decade of demos into day one of operations. DSOC on Psyche and Europe's first cross-support show optical can deliver 10-100x more science by 2030.

A rare, day-scale gamma-ray burst detected by Einstein Probe and Fermi kept flashing for 24 hours. New analysis suggests a shredded white dwarf and a jet from an intermediate-mass black hole, hinting at a new class of cosmic transients.

Two private landings, the first cellular network on the Moon, and a working lunar satnav demo turned 2025 into a year of operations, not experiments. See how CLPS changed pace and what to watch through 2027.

Astronomers just turned a single JWST eclipse into a full latitude–longitude–altitude map of WASP-18b, exposing a searing hotspot, a cooler ring at the edges, and water chemistry that changes with height. Here is how 3D eclipse mapping works and why it rewires our biosignature playbook.