Space

Juno captured the most powerful eruption ever seen on Io and a cluster of synchronized hotspots near the south pole. The 2025 dataset reshapes ideas about tidal heating, interior plumbing, mission risk, and how to read lava worlds.

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft has cleared its Critical Design Review, moving from paper to parts on the path to Titan. Here is what CDR unlocks, why Titan favors flight, and what milestones to watch on the road to a planned 2028 launch.

The third interstellar comet ever discovered is racing through the inner solar system in 2025. See what telescopes are finding, when to look, and how 3I/ATLAS could reshape theories of how planets form.

Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist has passed Critical Design Review, moving molten regolith electrolysis from pitch deck to practice. Here’s how a 2026 autonomous demo could unlock lunar oxygen, metals, and locally made solar power for Artemis.

China’s Tianwen-2 is attempting a first-of-its-kind two-stop campaign: return samples from Earth’s quasi-moon Kamoʻoalewa by 2027, then pursue active asteroid 311P. Here is how its dual sampling methods, fast-rotator target, and decade-long plan could reset small-body exploration.

Euclid’s first public data release (Q1) is already surfacing hundreds of strong gravitational lenses and kickstarting fresh tests of dark matter and dark energy. Here’s how AI and citizen scientists turned sharp imaging into fast physics, and what to watch next.

A single Falcon 9 just sent IMAP, SWFO-L1, and the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory toward the Sun-Earth L1 point. Here is how their data will sharpen radiation alerts, guide Artemis planning, and unlock fresh heliophysics.

On June 25, 2025, JWST’s MIRI coronagraph directly captured TWA 7 b inside its host star’s debris rings. It is Webb’s first new exoplanet found by imaging and the lightest world ever seen this way, a Saturn-mass detection that redraws the roadmap for hunting smaller planets.

ESA and JAXA reworked BepiColombo’s cruise after solar electric propulsion underperformed, pushing orbital insertion to November 2026. What failed, how the redesigned Mercury flybys preserve the science, and the milestones to watch through 2026.

Peer-reviewed Chang'e-6 samples point to an ultra-dry farside mantle and a complex magnetic-volcanic past. Here is how that asymmetry reshapes water expectations, landing site strategy, and early ISRU.

After a Sept. 23, 2025 Earth flyby, OSIRIS-APEX is on course to meet asteroid Apophis during its historic April 13, 2029 close approach. See how a gravity assist, Earth and Moon calibration, and a daring thruster stir set up breakthrough planetary-defense science.

Meet 2025 PN7, a newly identified Earth co-orbital whose Earth-like path turns deep space into a short hop. With low relative speeds and short transfer times, it invites rapid rendezvous, affordable sampling and even year-scale returns as Rubin and NEO Surveyor expand the pipeline.

NASA rebooted Mars Sample Return in 2025 with a two-architecture race and new fixed-price roles for industry. Here is what changed, why it matters for cost, schedule, and risk, and what the science payoff could be.

On September 24, 2025, NASA selected Katalyst Space Technologies to dock with and reboost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory by spring 2026. If successful, it will be the first commercial capture of an unprepared U.S. science satellite and a pivot point for space-telescope lifetimes.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost stuck the landing at Mare Crisium in March 2025, then delivered heat flow drilling, dust control, lunar GNSS, a next-gen retroreflector, and magnetosphere imaging. Here is how CLPS shifted from demos to decisions that shape Artemis operations.

With solar activity near its peak, Parker Solar Probe has just skimmed the Sun again, returning rare in-situ measurements from inside the corona. Here is how new data on switchbacks, heating, and dust can tighten space-weather forecasts and guide tougher mission designs.

NASA’s four-satellite PUNCH mission has begun stitching polarized images into global 3D movies of coronal mass ejections and the solar wind, just as Solar Cycle 25 peaks. Here is how that upgrade could sharpen warnings for satellites, aviation, power grids, GPS, and astronauts.

IMAP, SWFO-L1, and Carruthers are heading to the Sun-Earth L1 point to map the heliosphere, modernize space-weather watch, and protect crews, satellites, and grids.