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NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?

A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and focuses on issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

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Rocket Lab aborts launch of Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite at last second

Rocket Lab tried to launch its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS on Thursday (June 30), but the attempt ended in an abort.

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'PROMISE' me the moon? NASA wants to send spare nuclear-powered Mars rover to the lunar surface

NASA has announced new lunar landing contracts for its Artemis Moon Base program, as well as a potential new moon rover mission named PROMISE.

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Blue Origin starts rebuilding launch pad damaged by New Glenn rocket explosion — and it will look very different when it's done

Blue Origin has started rebuilding the launch pad damaged by the explosion of its New Glenn rocket last month, but the company is working from a very different blueprint this time around.

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‘Just in time for Canada Day’: Spacewalking astronauts repair space station’s huge Canadarm2

Expedition 74 flight engineers Chris Williams and Jessica Meir conducted a seven-hour spacewalk to replace a wrist joint on the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robot arm on June 30, 2026.

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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest.

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'Star Fox' is an eye-catching reimagining of a timeless sci-fi classic, but we've been here before

Nintendo and Velan Studios' high-fidelity remake of Star Fox 64 for Switch 2 is an arcade-y blast from the past without major deviations.

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Rubin Observatory begins filming the 'greatest cosmic movie ever' beginning a new era of astronomy

"With the launch of the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Rubin Observatory is opening a new window on the universe."

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America 250: How has telescope technology evolved since the dawn of the U.S.?

Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade telescope of William Herschel to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

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Europe's deadly heat wave seen from space | Space photo of the day for June 30, 2026

Europe's Sentinel-3 satellite captured data that helps visualize June's deadly heat wave, allowing researchers to further understand the extent of soaring temperatures.

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'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon

Researchers met recently for the first "Humans to Titan Summit 2026," which explored how to send astronauts to the huge Saturn moon.

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NASA will announce moon base news today: Watch it live

NASA will provide an update about its moon base plans this afternoon, and you can watch it live.

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'The start of a new era': Rocket Lab buying satellite-communications company Iridium for $8 billion

California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.

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It's been 25 years since 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence', and we think this was peak Spielberg sci-fi

Two cinematic geniuses united to create one of Hollywood’s most arresting android movies

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Watch 2 NASA astronauts fix ISS' huge robotic arm during spacewalk today

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

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'I'm still a Trekkie at heart': 'Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions' takes space exploration games in a friendlier direction (interview)

The follow-up to Astroneer isn't what veteran space explorers expected, but it might be exactly what we need.

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NASA launches rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth's atmosphere

This is the final flight of the historic Pegasus rocket.

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America 250: Here's how to find a star whose light began its journey toward Earth in 1776

This star's light left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.

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Light pollution may be erasing millions of dollars in value at US dark-sky parks

Researchers combined satellite data and visitor surveys at dark-sky parks to quantify the economic value of dark skies amid rising light pollution.

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Mars orbiter watches Perseverance rover cross the marathon finish line | Space photo of the day for June 29, 2026

With the speed at which the rover completed this marathon, and how well it continues to explore on Mars, who knows, maybe Perseverance will be the first to manage an ultramarathon on the Red Planet.

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How NASA's 'America 250' celebrations are reaching from the sky to the moon

NASA has big plans for July 4 — the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence — which involves both aircraft and spacecraft.

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The James Webb Space Telescope peered into one of the universe's oldest galaxy clusters, and scientists can't explain what they saw

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a massive and densely packed galaxy cluster at "cosmic noon" before such structures were thought to be possible.

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The Strawberry Moon rises on June 29. Here's what to expect from June's full moon

Don't miss June's full Strawberry Moon rise on June 29, marking the first full moon of summer with a golden glow and an eye-catching moon illusion.

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SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit on Falcon 9 launch from California (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, June 28, 2026.

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'Superman Returns' at 20: Is it a sequel? Is it a reboot? Two decades on, we're still not sure

Brandon Routh's only outing in the cape is more than just a love letter to Richard Donner's classic original movie.

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