# Space - ARGO.net Science

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## Published Stories

- [A massive star may have exploded twice, first as a supernova and then hours later as newborn neutron stars collided to create a kilonova, producing the August 2025 gravitational-wave signal and the strange light of AT2025ulz 1.3 billion light-years away in a possible first “superkilonova” that could reveal a new stellar death pathway](https://www.argo.net/a-massive-star-may-have-exploded-twice-first-as-a-supernova-and-then-hours-later-as-newborn-neutron-stars-collided-to-create-a-kilonova-producing-the-august-2025-gravitational-wave-signal-and-the-st/index.html.md): 2026-07-20 - A Caltech study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters describes an astronomical mystery with a startling possible solution. A massive star may have exploded as a supernova and produced...
- [Earth’s strange space dust may come from an asteroid scientists have never found](https://www.argo.net/earths-strange-space-dust-may-come-from-an-asteroid-scientists-have-never-found/index.html.md): 2026-07-20 - A study in Science Advances has identified a strange class of cosmic dust that may come from a near-Earth asteroid unlike anything represented in meteorite collections. The particles,...
- [Astronomers found tiny space junk hiding near Earth’s most valuable satellites](https://www.argo.net/astronomers-found-tiny-space-junk-hiding-near-earths-most-valuable-satellites/index.html.md): 2026-07-20 - A study in The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences has uncovered some of the faintest debris ever detected in geosynchronous orbit. Led by researchers at the University of...
- [Earth’s radiation belts could expose nuclear weapons hidden in orbit](https://www.argo.net/earths-radiation-belts-could-expose-nuclear-weapons-hidden-in-orbit/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - A Nature study by MIT nuclear physicist Areg Danagoulian proposes a striking way to check whether satellites are carrying nuclear weapons. The idea uses high-energy protons already trapped...
- [Retractable Mars tunnels could let astronauts cross the red planet in minutes](https://www.argo.net/retractable-mars-tunnels-could-let-astronauts-cross-the-red-planet-in-minutes/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - Researchers at the University of Michigan have proposed a retractable, pressurized tunnel system that could change how future astronauts move around on Mars. The 2026 concept, called LATCH,...
- [Nearby super-Earth may sit in the sweet spot for life](https://www.argo.net/nearby-super-earth-may-sit-in-the-sweet-spot-for-life/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal has refined the picture of GJ 3378 b, a nearby rocky super-Earth that receives about 90% as much stellar radiation as Earth...
- [Vanished super-Earths may have reshaped Uranus, Neptune and their moons](https://www.argo.net/vanished-super-earths-may-have-reshaped-uranus-neptune-and-their-moons/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - A study in Icarus study used computer simulations to replay the early outer solar system and it points to a startling possibility. One or two extra giant planets...
- [China’s Tianwen-2 reveals Earth’s strange quasi-moon up close for the first time](https://www.argo.net/chinas-tianwen-2-reveals-earths-strange-quasi-moon-up-close-for-the-first-time/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - China's Tianwen-2 mission has reached the near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and returned the first close-up image of the tiny object, according to a July 6 announcement from the China...
- [A giant space airbag could blunt the next solar superstorm](https://www.argo.net/a-giant-space-airbag-could-blunt-the-next-solar-superstorm/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - A study in Space Weather proposes a bold planetary defense concept for one of modern civilization's largest natural hazards. The system, called StormWall, would use spacecraft to release...
- [A tiny X-ray telescope could reveal the Moon’s hidden chemistry](https://www.argo.net/a-tiny-x-ray-telescope-could-reveal-the-moons-hidden-chemistry/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University and collaborating Japanese institutions have used numerical simulations to show that a small X-ray telescope in lunar orbit could map key elements across...
- [Machine learning puts dark matter back in the Milky Way glow mystery](https://www.argo.net/machine-learning-puts-dark-matter-back-in-the-milky-way-glow-mystery/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - Researchers at the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used machine learning to revisit a mysterious gamma-ray glow near the center of the Milky Way....
- [A solar gravity telescope could turn white dwarfs and black holes into detailed maps](https://www.argo.net/a-solar-gravity-telescope-could-turn-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes-into-detailed-maps/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - A 2026 arXiv study by Slava G. Turyshev argues that the Sun's own gravity could become the heart of an ultra-powerful space observatory. The proposed solar gravitational lens,...
- [New Horizons detects the solar wind losing speed at the edge of the solar system](https://www.argo.net/new-horizons-detects-the-solar-wind-losing-speed-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - Researchers at Southwest Research Institute have used NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to measure how the solar wind weakens as it travels toward the edge of the solar system....
- [NASA’s New Horizons wakes up nearly 6 billion miles from Earth](https://www.argo.net/nasas-new-horizons-wakes-up-nearly-6-billion-miles-from-earth/index.html.md): 2026-07-19 - NASA's official New Horizons announcement marks a quiet milestone from one of the most remote spacecraft ever operated. After its longest hibernation period yet, the probe has awakened...
- [NASA’s CAPSTONE just proved spacecraft can navigate the Moon with fewer calls home](https://www.argo.net/nasas-capstone-just-proved-spacecraft-can-navigate-the-moon-with-fewer-calls-home/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - NASA's CAPSTONE announcement closes a small spacecraft mission with large implications for the Moon. The microwave-sized spacecraft tested navigation and communications tools that could help future missions operate...
- [Dark energy survives a major challenge as the universe keeps accelerating](https://www.argo.net/dark-energy-survives-a-major-challenge-as-the-universe-keeps-accelerating/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - Researchers at the University of Southampton have reexamined a recent challenge to dark energy and found that the universe is still expanding at an accelerating rate. The work,...
- [A strange LIGO signal could point to black holes born before the first stars](https://www.argo.net/a-strange-ligo-signal-could-point-to-black-holes-born-before-the-first-stars/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal has placed one unusual number at the center of a cosmic mystery. Researchers at the University of Miami argue that a gravitational-wave...
- [Mars life search faces a surprising warning from a famous meteorite](https://www.argo.net/mars-life-search-faces-a-surprising-warning-from-a-famous-meteorite/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters has turned the famous Murchison meteorite into a cautionary tale for the search for ancient life on Mars. Researchers found...
- [Scientists revisited a famous neutron star collision and found a sharper clue to the universe’s expansion](https://www.argo.net/scientists-revisited-a-famous-neutron-star-collision-and-found-a-sharper-clue-to-the-universes-expansion/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal has revisited the famous 2017 GW170817 analysis and produced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant from that single gravitational-wave...
- [Rare super-Jupiter spotted on a six-month orbit](https://www.argo.net/rare-super-jupiter-spotted-on-a-six-month-orbit/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A study in Monthly Notices has identified NGTS-38 b, a rare giant world that takes about 180 days to circle its star. Led by scientists at Queen's University...
- [South Pole Telescope uncovers more than 7,000 galaxy clusters hidden in cosmic afterglow](https://www.argo.net/south-pole-telescope-uncovers-more-than-7000-galaxy-clusters-hidden-in-cosmic-afterglow/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A new arXiv study from the South Pole Telescope collaboration reports a catalog of 7,190 confirmed galaxy clusters found in five years of observations from Antarctica. The survey...
- [James Webb spots a mysterious missing wavelength on Pluto and Titan](https://www.argo.net/james-webb-spots-a-mysterious-missing-wavelength-on-pluto-and-titan/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A preprint study using James Webb Space Telescope data has identified the same unexplained infrared signal on two very different worlds, Saturn's moon Titan and the dwarf planet...
- [Webb found a lava planet’s atmosphere is being remade from the inside](https://www.argo.net/webb-found-a-lava-planets-atmosphere-is-being-remade-from-the-inside/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A 2026 arXiv preprint reports that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted strong and changing carbon monoxide emission from 55 Cancri e, a scorching lava planet about...
- [Scientists just released the biggest gravitational wave catalog ever, with 390 cosmic collisions](https://www.argo.net/scientists-just-released-the-biggest-gravitational-wave-catalog-ever-with-390-cosmic-collisions/index.html.md): 2026-07-17 - The LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration has released GWTC-5.0, the largest gravitational wave catalog assembled so far. The new release adds 161 newly detected events and brings...
- [Hubble spots record-breaking ultraviolet light escaping an ancient galaxy](https://www.argo.net/hubble-spots-record-breaking-ultraviolet-light-escaping-an-ancient-galaxy/index.html.md): 2026-07-17 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal reports the most distant detection yet of ionizing ultraviolet light escaping from a galaxy, offering a rare look at how young galaxies...
- [A nearby galaxy is being torn open by its larger sibling](https://www.argo.net/a-nearby-galaxy-is-being-torn-open-by-its-larger-sibling/index.html.md): 2026-07-17 - Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam have uncovered a strange motion pattern inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics found that...
- [Milky Way’s outer arms may stretch farther than astronomers thought](https://www.argo.net/milky-ways-outer-arms-may-stretch-farther-than-astronomers-thought/index.html.md): 2026-07-17 - A study in Astronomy & Astrophysics has used echoes from distant cosmic explosions to redraw part of the Milky Way, finding that two outer spiral arms sit farther...
- [NASA says July’s night sky will bring Venus, meteors, the Milky Way and a returning comet](https://www.argo.net/nasa-says-julys-night-sky-will-bring-venus-meteors-the-milky-way-and-a-returning-comet/index.html.md): 2026-07-17 - NASA's July 2026 skywatching guide points to a month when familiar objects take on new arrangements. The Moon moves past bright planets, the Milky Way gains a darker...
- [Webb reveals a collision-scarred galaxy with a hidden, restless heart](https://www.argo.net/webb-reveals-a-collision-scarred-galaxy-with-a-hidden-restless-heart/index.html.md): 2026-07-16 - NASA's official Webb announcement shows how near- and mid-infrared vision can peel back the dusty center of Centaurus A, a nearby galaxy reshaped by a major cosmic collision....
- [Euclid finds the oldest monster black holes ever seen, blazing with a trillion suns](https://www.argo.net/euclid-finds-the-oldest-monster-black-holes-ever-seen-blazing-with-a-trillion-suns/index.html.md): 2026-07-16 - The European Space Agency's Euclid announcement reports that the space telescope has discovered 31 ancient quasars from the universe's earliest era, including two record-setting objects seen as they...
- [James Webb’s largest survey reveals the universe’s hidden cosmic web](https://www.argo.net/james-webbs-largest-survey-reveals-the-universes-hidden-cosmic-web/index.html.md): 2026-07-15 - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to produce the most detailed map yet of the cosmic web, the vast structure...
- [JWST finds a mature barred spiral galaxy in the infant universe](https://www.argo.net/jwst-finds-a-mature-barred-spiral-galaxy-in-the-infant-universe/index.html.md): 2026-07-15 - A study posted to arXiv pushes one of galaxy evolution's most important milestones deep into cosmic history. Researchers led by Xiaohan Wang of Tsinghua University report that JWST,...
- [Jupiter’s clouds may hide far more oxygen than the Sun](https://www.argo.net/jupiters-clouds-may-hide-far-more-oxygen-than-the-sun/index.html.md): 2026-07-15 - Researchers at the University of Chicago and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have sharpened one of planetary science's biggest origin clues with a Jupiter study in The Planetary Science...
- [Astronauts returning from six-month ISS missions describe an observer sensation, raising new questions about how the brain rebuilds daily life on Earth after long-duration spaceflight](https://www.argo.net/astronauts-returning-from-six-month-iss-missions-describe-an-observer-sensation-raising-new-questions-about-how-the-brain-rebuilds-daily-life-on-earth-after-long-duration-spaceflight/index.html.md): 2026-07-14 - A 2025 study in Frontiers in Physiology highlights a central challenge in modern space medicine. Scientists are trying to understand how humans recover from long stays in orbit...
- [BepiColombo’s blue ion glow goes dark as Mercury arrival begins](https://www.argo.net/bepicolombos-blue-ion-glow-goes-dark-as-mercury-arrival-begins-2/index.html.md): 2026-07-14 - The European Space Agency has announced that ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft has permanently switched off its solar electric propulsion system, ending the long ion-powered cruise that carried...
- [New Horizons spent nine years racing toward Pluto, swept through its historic encounter in hours, then needed 15 months to send the complete record of that brief passage back across billions of miles to Earth](https://www.argo.net/new-horizons-spent-nine-years-racing-toward-pluto-swept-through-its-historic-encounter-in-hours-then-needed-15-months-to-send-the-complete-record-of-that-brief-passage-back-across-billions-of-miles/index.html.md): 2026-07-14 - NASA's New Horizons mission compressed years of engineering and navigation into several crucial hours near Pluto. According to NASA's official data return report, the spacecraft later needed more...
- [Chinese spaceplane releases unknown object in orbit, intensifying scrutiny of Shenlong](https://www.argo.net/chinese-spaceplane-releases-unknown-object-in-orbit-intensifying-scrutiny-of-shenlong/index.html.md): 2026-07-14 - LeoLabs has reported a new detection near China's Shenlong reusable spaceplane, after the commercial space surveillance company identified an object in the spacecraft's orbital neighborhood on June 22,...
- [Einstein Probe caught a cosmic explosion that refuses to fit the known playbook](https://www.argo.net/einstein-probe-caught-a-cosmic-explosion-that-refuses-to-fit-the-known-playbook/index.html.md): 2026-07-14 - A study in Monthly Notices reports that China's Einstein Probe detected a strange double X-ray flash from a cosmic source called EP240305a. The event behaved in ways that...
- [Humans have lived continuously aboard the International Space Station since November 2, 2000, extending an unbroken off-world presence beyond 25 years, keeping at least one person in orbit every day and creating the longest sustained period that members of our species have lived away from Earth](https://www.argo.net/humans-have-lived-continuously-aboard-the-international-space-station-since-november-2-2000-extending-an-unbroken-off-world-presence-beyond-25-years-keeping-at-least-one-person-in-orbit-every-day-a/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - NASA Johnson Space Center has marked more than 25 years of continuous human life aboard the International Space Station. The unbroken period began when the Expedition 1 crew...
- [Kepler ended decades of uncertainty over whether Earth-like worlds were cosmic accidents by revealing that small planets are common and suggesting at least 300 million potentially habitable worlds may orbit Milky Way stars, while TESS maps nearby candidates and the enduring silence leaves astronomers asking why a galaxy that may teem with planets still seems so quiet](https://www.argo.net/kepler-ended-decades-of-uncertainty-over-whether-earth-like-worlds-were-cosmic-accidents-by-revealing-that-small-planets-are-common-and-suggesting-at-least-300-million-potentially-habitable-worlds-may/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - A study led by researchers at NASA Ames used Kepler's final planet census to estimate how often rocky worlds occupy temperate orbits around Sun-like stars. The analysis, published...
- [At 65, Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman to orbit Earth when she commanded the privately funded Axiom Mission 4, leading a four-person crew from four nations to the International Space Station for 18 days and raising her career total beyond 695 days, the longest time in space accumulated by any American astronaut or any woman in history](https://www.argo.net/at-65-peggy-whitson-became-the-oldest-woman-to-orbit-earth-when-she-commanded-the-privately-funded-axiom-mission-4-leading-a-four-person-crew-from-four-nations-to-the-international-space-station-for/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - Axiom Space's official profile records a spaceflight career without equal among American astronauts or women. At age 65, Peggy Whitson commanded Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space...
- [A massive star may have exploded twice, first as a supernova that formed two unusually light neutron stars and then hours later as their collision produced gravitational waves and a kilonova, creating the 1.3-billion-light-year event AT2025ulz that astronomers call a possible “superkilonova” and a potential first glimpse of a new kind of cosmic blast](https://www.argo.net/a-massive-star-may-have-exploded-twice-first-as-a-supernova-that-formed-two-unusually-light-neutron-stars-and-then-hours-later-as-their-collision-produced-gravitational-waves-and-a-kilonova-creating/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - Researchers at Caltech are investigating a cosmic mystery that may represent an entirely new type of stellar explosion. Their study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters describes evidence that...
- [Astronomers spot a record-size black hole pair that may have hollowed out a galaxy’s heart](https://www.argo.net/astronomers-spot-a-record-size-black-hole-pair-that-may-have-hollowed-out-a-galaxys-heart/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that a vast starless cavity in the distant galaxy Abell 402-BCG may have been carved by an ultramassive black hole...
- [Webb finds hidden merger scars in galaxies that suddenly stopped making stars](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-hidden-merger-scars-in-galaxies-that-suddenly-stopped-making-stars/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - A study in Monthly Notices used deep Webb observations to reveal faint structural scars in galaxies that had recently stopped forming stars. The work points to violent galactic...
- [A hidden galaxy may turn star birth into a high-energy neutrino engine](https://www.argo.net/a-hidden-galaxy-may-turn-star-birth-into-a-high-energy-neutrino-engine/index.html.md): 2026-07-11 - The ALMA Observatory has announced a finding that could widen the search for the engines behind some of the Universe's most elusive particles. Using ALMA observations, astronomers studied...
- [Earth was born without a Moon, then a Mars-size world struck 4.5 billion years ago, creating the companion that drives our tides, steadies the planet’s tilt and may have helped shape conditions for complex life](https://www.argo.net/earth-was-born-without-a-moon-then-a-mars-size-world-struck-4-5-billion-years-ago-creating-the-companion-that-drives-our-tides-steadies-the-planets-tilt-and-may-have-helped-shape-conditions-for-c/index.html.md): 2026-07-10 - NASA has brought together decades of evidence in an official Moon formation overview that traces our satellite to one of the most violent events in Solar System history....
- [Astronomers found a 24-millisecond pulsar locked in an unusually long orbit](https://www.argo.net/astronomers-found-a-24-millisecond-pulsar-locked-in-an-unusually-long-orbit/index.html.md): 2026-07-07 - A study accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports the discovery of PSR J0125−5854, a fast-spinning pulsar found with the Murchison Widefield Array during the ongoing SMART survey...
- [Mars’ Olympus Mons is the solar system’s largest known volcano, spreading more than 600 kilometers across with slopes so gentle that a summit view would feel like a tilted plain while its vast base disappears beyond the nearby Martian horizon](https://www.argo.net/mars-olympus-mons-is-the-solar-systems-largest-known-volcano-spreading-more-than-600-kilometers-across-with-slopes-so-gentle-that-a-summit-view-would-feel-like-a-tilted-plain-while-its-vast-base/index.html.md): 2026-07-07 - NASA Science's Olympus Mons image record reveals one of Mars' strangest landmarks, a volcano so enormous and so gently sloped that its scale almost disappears from the ground....
- [NASA’s daring rescue mission could save a falling space telescope](https://www.argo.net/nasas-daring-rescue-mission-could-save-a-falling-space-telescope/index.html.md): 2026-07-07 - NASA's Swift Boost mission is targeting a strange kind of space emergency, a working observatory that is slowly losing its grip on orbit. The agency has contracted Katalyst...
- [Earth may survive the Sun’s death, new models suggest](https://www.argo.net/earth-may-survive-the-suns-death-new-models-suggest/index.html.md): 2026-07-06 - A study in Astronomy & Astrophysics has reopened a dramatic question about Earth's far future. Researchers led by Mats Esseldeurs at KU Leuven used updated stellar and orbital...
- [A rare supernova exposed a star’s hidden silicon layer](https://www.argo.net/a-rare-supernova-exposed-a-stars-hidden-silicon-layer/index.html.md): 2026-07-06 - A study in Nature reports a rare stellar explosion, SN 2021yfj, that gave astronomers an unusually direct view into the inner layers of a massive dying star. The...
- [Webb finds the most chemically primitive star-forming galaxy ever seen](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-the-most-chemically-primitive-star-forming-galaxy-ever-seen/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - A study in Nature reports that JWST observations of the tiny galaxy LAP1-B have revealed the most chemically primitive star-forming galaxy discovered so far. Seen as it existed...
- [A star cluster may have drilled a round hole beside the Milky Way’s black hole](https://www.argo.net/a-star-cluster-may-have-drilled-a-round-hole-beside-the-milky-ways-black-hole/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - A study posted on arXiv suggests that about 300 years ago, a compact swarm of massive stars may have carved a nearly round hole in the glowing gas...
- [Mysterious cosmic radio signal traced to a feeding dead star](https://www.argo.net/mysterious-cosmic-radio-signal-traced-to-a-feeding-dead-star/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - A study in Nature Astronomy has traced a puzzling repeating radio signal to a white dwarf binary, giving astronomers one of their clearest identifications yet for a rare...
- [NASA moon base could become Earth’s first defense against alien microbes](https://www.argo.net/nasa-moon-base-could-become-earths-first-defense-against-alien-microbes/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - Researchers at McGill University and Strategic Threat Analysis and Research Laboratories have raised a startling question for the next era of space exploration. If future missions bring samples...
- [A giant asteroid is safely sweeping past Earth today](https://www.argo.net/a-giant-asteroid-is-safely-sweeping-past-earth-today/index.html.md): 2026-07-04 - ESA's Planetary Defence team has released a close-approach fact sheet for asteroid 1997 NC1, a large near-Earth object making a safe pass by our planet on June 27,...
- [NASA’s Roman telescope reaches Florida with a promise to reveal thousands of new worlds](https://www.argo.net/nasas-roman-telescope-reaches-florida-with-a-promise-to-reveal-thousands-of-new-worlds/index.html.md): 2026-07-04 - A major question in astronomy moved closer to a new flood of evidence when NASA announced that the Roman telescope had arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
- [Astronomers discover two cotton candy giants in the same star system](https://www.argo.net/astronomers-discover-two-cotton-candy-giants-in-the-same-star-system/index.html.md): 2026-07-04 - A study in Monthly Notices has confirmed a rare pair of giant planets orbiting the star TOI-791 and both worlds appear so swollen and light that astronomers classify...
- [Webb watched a giant exoplanet get roasted by its star](https://www.argo.net/webb-watched-a-giant-exoplanet-get-roasted-by-its-star/index.html.md): 2026-07-03 - Researchers analyzing NASA's Webb observations have watched the giant exoplanet HD 80606 b heat up as its stretched orbit carried it close to a Sun-like star. The planet...
- [NASA’s Chandra catches the first photographed black hole firing a changing X-ray jet](https://www.argo.net/nasas-chandra-catches-the-first-photographed-black-hole-firing-a-changing-x-ray-jet/index.html.md): 2026-07-02 - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has delivered the sharpest X-ray view yet of the jet launched by the supermassive black hole in Messier 87, the galaxy that became famous...
- [Webb and Hubble reveal Terzan 5 as a fossil from the Milky Way’s birth](https://www.argo.net/webb-and-hubble-reveal-terzan-5-as-a-fossil-from-the-milky-ways-birth/index.html.md): 2026-07-02 - A study in Astronomy & Astrophysics combines Webb's infrared vision with more than a decade of Hubble observations to reveal a layered history inside Terzan 5. The crowded...
- [NASA picks Rocket Lab for three launches to track the Sun and tropical ice clouds](https://www.argo.net/nasa-picks-rocket-lab-for-three-launches-to-track-the-sun-and-tropical-ice-clouds/index.html.md): 2026-07-02 - NASA's latest launch selection points to a quiet puzzle at the heart of climate science: how the Sun's changing energy and Earth's high ice clouds shape the planet...
- [A passing star may have sent a comet shower through the Solar System](https://www.argo.net/a-passing-star-may-have-sent-a-comet-shower-through-the-solar-system/index.html.md): 2026-07-01 - A new arXiv study by Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond suggests that the star HD 7977 may have passed close enough to the Sun about 2.5...
- [China’s secretive space plane releases a new mystery object over Earth](https://www.argo.net/chinas-secretive-space-plane-releases-a-new-mystery-object-over-earth/index.html.md): 2026-07-01 - LeoLabs announced that its radar network detected a new unknown object near China's Shenlong reusable space plane on June 22, 2026. The finding adds another clue to one...
- [Euclid reveals 60 million stars in the Milky Way’s crowded heart](https://www.argo.net/euclid-reveals-60-million-stars-in-the-milky-ways-crowded-heart/index.html.md): 2026-07-01 - ESA's Euclid mission has revealed the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever made of the Milky Way's center, giving astronomers a packed new view of more than...
- [NASA tested a new space refueling device that could turn orbit into a launch pad](https://www.argo.net/nasa-tested-a-new-space-refueling-device-that-could-turn-orbit-into-a-launch-pad/index.html.md): 2026-06-30 - NASA has tested a developmental cryocoupler that could help future spacecraft refuel in Earth orbit before setting out for deeper destinations. The work, conducted by engineers at NASA's...
- [Earth fueled the May 2024 superstorm more than the sun, satellite data reveal](https://www.argo.net/earth-fueled-the-may-2024-superstorm-more-than-the-sun-satellite-data-reveal/index.html.md): 2026-06-30 - A study in Science Advances found that Earth's own upper atmosphere supplied most of the charged particles driving the May 2024 super geomagnetic storm. Using direct satellite measurements...
- [NASA is about to send a robotic spacecraft to rescue a falling space telescope](https://www.argo.net/nasa-is-about-to-send-a-robotic-spacecraft-to-rescue-a-falling-space-telescope/index.html.md): 2026-06-30 - NASA is preparing a rare orbital rescue through its Swift Boost mission, sending a robotic spacecraft to raise the altitude of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before atmospheric...
- [Seismic rumbles reveal a vast ancient magma system inside Mars](https://www.argo.net/seismic-rumbles-reveal-a-vast-ancient-magma-system-inside-mars/index.html.md): 2026-06-29 - A study in Nature Astronomy reports a roughly 14-kilometer-thick layer deep in the Martian crust that may be the leftover base of a vast ancient magma system. Using...
- [A hidden galaxy called Shadow Blaster may reveal a new source of cosmic neutrinos](https://www.argo.net/a-hidden-galaxy-called-shadow-blaster-may-reveal-a-new-source-of-cosmic-neutrinos/index.html.md): 2026-06-29 - A study in Nature Astronomy has linked a high-energy neutrino detected by IceCube to a dust-hidden galaxy about 11 billion light-years away. The galaxy, formally known as JCMT0402−0424...
- [Hubble reveals a sparkling ancient star cluster with a hidden two-part past](https://www.argo.net/hubble-reveals-a-sparkling-ancient-star-cluster-with-a-hidden-two-part-past/index.html.md): 2026-06-29 - ESA/Hubble has released a new Hubble image of NGC 6723, a glittering globular cluster in Sagittarius that sits about 27,000 light-years from Earth. The scene looks delicate, but...
- [Webb finds an ancient interstellar comet with chemistry unlike our Solar System](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-an-ancient-interstellar-comet-with-chemistry-unlike-our-solar-system/index.html.md): 2026-06-29 - Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope report in a Nature study that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical signature unseen in Solar System comets. The finding...
- [A new Mars study shows terraforming would take centuries of planet-size industry](https://www.argo.net/a-new-mars-study-shows-terraforming-would-take-centuries-of-planet-size-industry/index.html.md): 2026-06-28 - A study in APS Open Science tackles one of space exploration's biggest questions with blunt arithmetic: making Mars broadly habitable would require planet-scale stores of gas, heat, water...
- [Future Artemis astronauts may walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon](https://www.argo.net/future-artemis-astronauts-may-walk-across-rocks-from-deep-inside-the-moon/index.html.md): 2026-06-28 - A study in Science Advances has found that the Moon's enormous South Pole-Aitken basin may have been carved by a 260-kilometer differentiated impactor that struck from north to...
- [Rare meteorite reveals a vanished world from the solar system’s first days](https://www.argo.net/rare-meteorite-reveals-a-vanished-world-from-the-solar-systems-first-days/index.html.md): 2026-06-27 - A study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters has found evidence that a rare meteorite from the Sahara Desert came from a shattered protoplanet that may have been...
- [Uranus and Neptune may hide vast magma oceans beneath their clouds](https://www.argo.net/uranus-and-neptune-may-hide-vast-magma-oceans-beneath-their-clouds/index.html.md): 2026-06-27 - Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles used computer models to test a hotter view of the solar system's two outer planets. Their arXiv study, submitted to...
- [Earth may have sent living cells into Venus’ clouds for billions of years](https://www.argo.net/earth-may-have-sent-living-cells-into-venus-clouds-for-billions-of-years/index.html.md): 2026-06-27 - Researchers presenting a 2026 conference study have proposed a startling path for life in the inner Solar System. Their model suggests that impacts on Earth may have launched...
- [Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole shredding a white dwarf](https://www.argo.net/einstein-probe-may-have-caught-a-black-hole-shredding-a-white-dwarf/index.html.md): 2026-06-27 - A study in Science Bulletin reports that China's Einstein Probe detected an extraordinary X-ray outburst called EP250702a, a fast and brilliant event that may reveal an intermediate-mass black...
- [NASA trained Artemis II astronauts to read the Moon like geologists](https://www.argo.net/nasa-trained-artemis-ii-astronauts-to-read-the-moon-like-geologists/index.html.md): 2026-06-27 - NASA is now examining the thousands of images and spoken observations gathered during Artemis II, after the crew used months of geology training to study the Moon during...
- [Alien planet spins reveal a hidden clue to how worlds are born](https://www.argo.net/alien-planet-spins-reveal-a-hidden-clue-to-how-worlds-are-born/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - Researchers led by Northwestern University used Keck Observatory observations to uncover a striking pattern in the spins of distant worlds. Their study, published in The Astronomical Journal, found...
- [Europa’s surface is almost too clean for an icy moon bombarded for billions of years, and its missing scars point to a young crust repeatedly rewritten from below as NASA’s Europa Clipper heads to test whether Jupiter’s tides keep a hidden ocean alive](https://www.argo.net/europas-surface-is-almost-too-clean-for-an-icy-moon-bombarded-for-billions-of-years-and-its-missing-scars-point-to-a-young-crust-repeatedly-rewritten-from-below-as-nasas-europa-clip/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - NASA's Europa Clipper mission is heading toward one of the most revealing puzzles in the outer Solar System. Jupiter's icy moon Europa has so few large impact craters...
- [In 1970, Venera 7 survived 23 minutes on Venus in 475-degree heat and crushing 90-atmosphere pressure, sent the first data from another planet’s surface, and engineers only realized weeks later that the faint signal had continued after landing while the probe’s titanium hardware may still be recognizable today](https://www.argo.net/in-1970-venera-7-survived-23-minutes-on-venus-in-475-degree-heat-and-crushing-90-atmosphere-pressure-sent-the-first-data-from-another-planets-surface-and-engineers-only-realized-weeks-late/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - A 2026 study in Geoarchaeology has revived one of space exploration's most extreme survival stories. The study argues that several probes sent to Venus during the Cold War,...
- [Mars may have kept rivers, long-lived lakes and possibly a northern ocean for hundreds of millions of years, giving the Red Planet a wet window that rivals the age of complex animal life on Earth](https://www.argo.net/mars-may-have-kept-rivers-long-lived-lakes-and-possibly-a-northern-ocean-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-years-giving-the-red-planet-a-wet-window-that-rivals-the-age-of-complex-animal-life-on-earth/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - A study in Nature Astronomy sharpens one of Mars' biggest mysteries, whether the northern plains once held an ocean while rivers and lakes shaped other parts of the...
- [Astrobotic’s 19-year, contract-built path to the Moon has ended in a $162 million Voyager deal as Peregrine’s valve failure gives way to a bigger race to scale landers, lunar power and NASA Moon Base hardware on a tightening schedule](https://www.argo.net/astrobotics-19-year-contract-built-path-to-the-moon-has-ended-in-a-162-million-voyager-deal-as-peregrines-valve-failure-gives-way-to-a-bigger-race-to-scale-landers-lunar-power-and-nasa-moon-bas/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - Astrobotic Technology's official announcement says the Pittsburgh lunar company has entered an agreement to be acquired by Voyager Technologies, bringing a long-running commercial Moon lander developer into a...
- [When Sergei Krikalev launched from Baikonur in May 1991, he was a Soviet cosmonaut bound for Mir, but when he returned 311 days later the Soviet Union had dissolved, Leningrad had become St. Petersburg and his spacesuit still carried the USSR letters and red flag from a country that had disappeared beneath him while Mir kept circling Earth](https://www.argo.net/when-sergei-krikalev-launched-from-baikonur-in-may-1991-he-was-a-soviet-cosmonaut-bound-for-mir-but-when-he-returned-311-days-later-the-soviet-union-had-dissolved-leningrad-had-become-st-petersbur/index.html.md): 2026-06-26 - NASA's official history records a 311-day flight that turned Sergei Krikalev's second trip to Mir into one of the strangest missions in human spaceflight. He left Earth as...
- [The universe is expanding faster over time, and DESI’s 15-million-object map is making dark energy look less like a constant force than one of cosmology’s deepest unsolved mysteries](https://www.argo.net/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-over-time-and-desis-15-million-object-map-is-making-dark-energy-look-less-like-a-constant-force-than-one-of-cosmologys-deepest-unsolved-mysteries/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - Researchers with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration have released DESI results that sharpen one of the most important questions in modern astronomy. Using the largest 3D map...
- [Water may become space’s most valuable mined resource as lunar ice and asteroid volatiles point toward hydrogen and oxygen fuel depots for missions headed to the Moon, Mars and beyond](https://www.argo.net/water-may-become-spaces-most-valuable-mined-resource-as-lunar-ice-and-asteroid-volatiles-point-toward-hydrogen-and-oxygen-fuel-depots-for-missions-headed-to-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - NASA Johnson Space Center is advancing in-situ resource utilization, the spaceflight strategy of collecting materials from the Moon, Mars, asteroids and other worlds, then turning them into essentials...
- [NASA’s Roman Space Telescope reaches Kennedy ahead of schedule as Aug. 30 Falcon Heavy launch preparations begin](https://www.argo.net/nasas-roman-space-telescope-reaches-kennedy-ahead-of-schedule-as-aug-30-falcon-heavy-launch-preparations-begin/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - NASA's official Roman mission announcement marks a major step toward launch for the agency's next great space observatory. The NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at Kennedy...
- [Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent 803 days in orbit and became about 0.02 seconds younger, turning Einstein’s time dilation into a measurable human spaceflight record](https://www.argo.net/russian-cosmonaut-sergei-krikalev-spent-803-days-in-orbit-and-became-about-0-02-seconds-younger-turning-einsteins-time-dilation-into-a-measurable-human-spaceflight-record/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - 803 days in orbit, according to the World Air Sports Federation's official record announcement, gave Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev a tiny but real place in the physics of...
- [Webb finds a lemon-shaped planet circling a pulsar, with a carbon atmosphere unlike any seen before and a formation story astronomers still can’t explain](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-a-lemon-shaped-planet-circling-a-pulsar-with-a-carbon-atmosphere-unlike-any-seen-before-and-a-formation-story-astronomers-still-cant-explain/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - NASA's Webb announcement reports that astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to watch PSR J2322-2650b through a full orbit around a pulsar. The result is a strange...
- [Astronauts on the International Space Station see flashes with their eyes closed as cosmic rays pass through the eye and turn space radiation into brief sparks of light](https://www.argo.net/astronauts-on-the-international-space-station-see-flashes-with-their-eyes-closed-as-cosmic-rays-pass-through-the-eye-and-turn-space-radiation-into-brief-sparks-of-light/index.html.md): 2026-06-25 - NASA has documented cosmic-ray flashes seen by astronauts in orbit, a strange spaceflight experience that begins with invisible particles and ends as sudden light inside the human visual...
- [Scientists Scanned an Interstellar Visitor for Alien Signals and Found Only Earth](https://www.argo.net/scientists-scanned-an-interstellar-visitor-for-alien-signals-and-found-only-earth/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - Researchers at the SETI Institute examined nearly 74 million radio detections from the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and found no evidence of technology from beyond Earth. The study, published...
- [Webb reveals 16.5 million stars inside the Cigar galaxy](https://www.argo.net/webb-reveals-16-5-million-stars-inside-the-cigar-galaxy/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - Researchers using NASA's Webb observations have resolved about 16.5 million individual stars inside Messier 82, a dust-filled galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. The new survey gives astronomers...
- [US government releases new UFO files spanning decades of unexplained sightings](https://www.argo.net/us-government-releases-new-ufo-files-spanning-decades-of-unexplained-sightings/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - The U.S. Department of War has published another batch of declassified and historical files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, bringing fresh military records and decades-old reports into a public...
- [Webb finds salty clouds swirling around the famous Pink Planet](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-salty-clouds-swirling-around-the-famous-pink-planet/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - Researchers at Northwestern University have used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the faint light of GJ 504 b, the famous "Pink Planet," and found evidence that...
- [A NASA spacecraft no larger than a small car launched in 1977 is still racing beyond Pluto at 38,000 miles per hour, and the radio signals Voyager 1 sends home now take more than 23 hours to reach engineers on Earth as the interstellar mission outlives the era that built it](https://www.argo.net/a-nasa-spacecraft-no-larger-than-a-small-car-launched-in-1977-is-still-racing-beyond-pluto-at-38000-miles-per-hour-and-the-radio-signals-voyager-1-sends-home-now-take-more-than-23-hours-to-reach-eng/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - NASA's Voyager 1 mission remains one of the strangest success stories in spaceflight. Nearly 49 years after launch, the small car sized spacecraft is still operating in interstellar...
- [Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, only 4.24 light-years from Earth, yet a spacecraft traveling at the sustained speed of humanity’s fastest outbound probes would still need about 73,000 years to arrive, turning the nearest neighboring star into a journey that would outlast every civilization now on Earth and nearly all of recorded human history](https://www.argo.net/proxima-centauri-is-the-closest-star-to-the-sun-only-4-24-light-years-from-earth-yet-a-spacecraft-traveling-at-the-sustained-speed-of-humanitys-fastest-outbound-probes-would-still-need-abou/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - NASA Science describes Proxima Centauri as our nearest neighboring star, a red dwarf in the Alpha Centauri system about 4.25 light-years from Earth. That distance sounds almost intimate...
- [A 2004 magnetar flare released 250,000 years of sunlight in 0.2 seconds, disturbed Earth’s ionosphere, and showed how neutron-star eruptions can reach across the Milky Way](https://www.argo.net/a-2004-magnetar-flare-released-250000-years-of-sunlight-in-0-2-seconds-disturbed-earths-ionosphere-and-showed-how-neutron-star-eruptions-can-reach-across-the-milky-way/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - A Nature study captured a rare astrophysical mystery from across the Milky Way: a magnetar called SGR 1806-20 erupted on December 27, 2004, with a flash so intense...
- [Webb has confirmed MoM-z14, a galaxy whose light left 280 million years after the Big Bang, and its brightness and nitrogen-rich chemistry suggest early star formation moved faster than models predicted](https://www.argo.net/webb-has-confirmed-mom-z14-a-galaxy-whose-light-left-280-million-years-after-the-big-bang-and-its-brightness-and-nitrogen-rich-chemistry-suggest-early-star-formation-moved-faster-than-models-predict/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - A study in The Open Journal of Astrophysics has confirmed MoM-z14, a remarkably bright galaxy seen as it was just 280 million years after the Big Bang. By...
- [As the Pentagon seeks $71 billion for Space Force, Mitchell Institute warns U.S. still lacks clear rules for jamming, satellite shadowing and conflict in orbit](https://www.argo.net/as-the-pentagon-seeks-71-billion-for-space-force-mitchell-institute-warns-u-s-still-lacks-clear-rules-for-jamming-satellite-shadowing-and-conflict-in-orbit/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - $71 billion for the U.S. Space Force is now part of a wider debate over how America should prepare for conflict in orbit. Researchers at the Mitchell Institute...
- [Astronauts say spacewalk gear comes back smelling like seared steak and hot metal](https://www.argo.net/astronauts-say-spacewalk-gear-comes-back-smelling-like-seared-steak-and-hot-metal/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - NASA Ames Research Center has highlighted one of human spaceflight's strangest sensory details: after astronauts return from a spacewalk, their suits and tools can carry a sharp odor...
- [China’s Tianwen-3 mission aims to drill two meters into Mars, return 500 grams of rock by 2031, and beat NASA and ESA to the first samples from another planet](https://www.argo.net/chinas-tianwen-3-mission-aims-to-drill-two-meters-into-mars-return-500-grams-of-rock-by-2031-and-beat-nasa-and-esa-to-the-first-samples-from-another-planet/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - A Nature Astronomy study by Tianwen-3 mission scientists outlines China's plan to launch a Mars sample-return mission around 2028, collect at least 500 grams of Martian material and...
- [Philae became the first spacecraft to soft-land on a comet, bounced twice in near-zero gravity, and still sent historic science home from a shadowed crevice](https://www.argo.net/philae-became-the-first-spacecraft-to-soft-land-on-a-comet-bounced-twice-in-near-zero-gravity-and-still-sent-historic-science-home-from-a-shadowed-crevice/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - On November 12, 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission made spaceflight history when its Philae lander touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko. It was the first...
- [Webb Reveals a Blazing Black Hole Beacon Inside the Squid Galaxy](https://www.argo.net/webb-reveals-a-blazing-black-hole-beacon-inside-the-squid-galaxy/index.html.md): 2026-06-24 - The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has released a new ESA/Webb Picture of the Month showing Messier 77, a nearby barred spiral galaxy with a dazzling center powered...
- [NASA’s Lucy Reveals a Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid With Traces of Ancient Water](https://www.argo.net/nasas-lucy-reveals-a-wobbling-peanut-shaped-asteroid-with-traces-of-ancient-water/index.html.md): 2026-06-23 - A study in Science has revealed that NASA's Lucy spacecraft found a far stranger asteroid than telescopes on Earth could see. During its April 20, 2025 flyby, Lucy...
- [NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Climbing Through Strange Rock Bands on Mars](https://www.argo.net/nasas-curiosity-rover-is-climbing-through-strange-rock-bands-on-mars/index.html.md): 2026-06-22 - NASA's Curiosity mission is surveying a puzzling sequence of exposed rock bands as the rover climbs Mount Sharp, using close-up imaging, chemistry measurements and long-distance views to track...
- [Webb and Hubble Reveal Massive Star Clusters Break Free Faster Than Expected](https://www.argo.net/webb-and-hubble-reveal-massive-star-clusters-break-free-faster-than-expected/index.html.md): 2026-06-22 - Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found that the most massive young star clusters clear away their birth clouds...
- [Earth May Escape the Sun’s Final Expansion, New Research Suggests](https://www.argo.net/earth-may-escape-the-suns-final-expansion-new-research-suggests/index.html.md): 2026-06-22 - A study in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that Earth may avoid being swallowed when the Sun swells through its final giant-star phases. The result comes from updated calculations...
- [Tiny Moon Crystals Reveal a 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Impact Hidden in a Meteorite](https://www.argo.net/tiny-moon-crystals-reveal-a-3-5-billion-year-old-asteroid-impact-hidden-in-a-meteorite/index.html.md): 2026-06-21 - A study in Geology has traced a hidden lunar impact to tiny crystal grains inside a meteorite from the Moon. The grains point to a major asteroid collision...
- [Webb and Hubble Reveal a Rare Fossil From the Milky Way’s Birth](https://www.argo.net/webb-and-hubble-reveal-a-rare-fossil-from-the-milky-ways-birth/index.html.md): 2026-06-21 - Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed in a NASA announcement that Terzan 5 is a rare survivor from the Milky...
- [NASA’s Fermi Finds Rare Sibling Supernova Remnants Born From the Same Stellar Pair](https://www.argo.net/nasas-fermi-finds-rare-sibling-supernova-remnants-born-from-the-same-stellar-pair/index.html.md): 2026-06-21 - NASA's Fermi mission has revealed a hidden relationship between two stellar wrecks in Gemini, where a faint supernova remnant appears to share a dramatic origin story with the...
- [NASA’s Twin-Satellite DAPHNE Mission Will Probe How Earth’s Atmosphere Drives Space Weather](https://www.argo.net/nasas-twin-satellite-daphne-mission-will-probe-how-earths-atmosphere-drives-space-weather/index.html.md): 2026-06-20 - NASA has selected the DAPHNE mission concept to enter Phase B, moving a twin-satellite investigation closer to flight as scientists work to solve a difficult space weather puzzle....
- [Ancient Black Holes May Be Cosmic Fossils From Before the Big Bang](https://www.argo.net/ancient-black-holes-may-be-cosmic-fossils-from-before-the-big-bang/index.html.md): 2026-06-20 - A study in Physical Review D proposes that ancient black holes could have survived a cosmic bounce before the Big Bang, leaving behind relics that may still shape...
- [Alien Technology May Be Preserved in Moon Dust, New SETI Paper Suggests](https://www.argo.net/alien-technology-may-be-preserved-in-moon-dust-new-seti-paper-suggests/index.html.md): 2026-06-19 - A 2026 SETI paper by astrophysicist Brian C. Lacki proposes a striking place to look for traces of ancient extraterrestrial technology, the dust and soil of our own...
- [Black Hole Winds May Be Stealing the Future Stars From Giant Galaxies](https://www.argo.net/black-hole-winds-may-be-stealing-the-future-stars-from-giant-galaxies/index.html.md): 2026-06-19 - A study in XRISM spectroscopy found that winds from the active center of the galaxy NGC 4151 may be powerful enough to affect the gas supply that galaxies...
- [Mars Express Spots Dozens of Dust Devils Swirling Across an Ancient Martian Valley](https://www.argo.net/mars-express-spots-dozens-of-dust-devils-swirling-across-an-ancient-martian-valley/index.html.md): 2026-06-19 - At the German Aerospace Center, DLR, researchers have released new images from ESA's Mars Express mission showing dozens of active dust devils scattered across Mamers Valles, a sprawling...
- [NASA Mars Simulations Reveal the Team Skill Astronauts May Need for Deep Space](https://www.argo.net/nasa-mars-simulations-reveal-the-team-skill-astronauts-may-need-for-deep-space/index.html.md): 2026-06-19 - A study in Personnel Psychology found that future deep-space crews may need more than technical expertise to work safely across millions of miles. The NASA-funded research points to...
- [ESA Extends 13 Space Missions and Clears Arrakihs for a 2030 Launch](https://www.argo.net/esa-extends-13-space-missions-and-clears-arrakihs-for-a-2030-launch/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - The European Space Agency has approved a broad new push for European space science, extending 13 missions and adopting Arrakihs as its next fast-class mission, according to an...
- [NASA Is Sending Cellphone-Like Gamma-Ray Sensors Into Orbit on a Robot Arm Test](https://www.argo.net/nasa-is-sending-cellphone-like-gamma-ray-sensors-into-orbit-on-a-robot-arm-test/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - NASA's Fly Foundational Robots mission is giving scientists a rare chance to test a hard-to-measure form of cosmic light in orbit. According to a NASA announcement, a prototype...
- [Webb Finds Neptune’s Strange Moon Nereid May Be the Sole Survivor of an Ancient Lunar Catastrophe](https://www.argo.net/webb-finds-neptunes-strange-moon-nereid-may-be-the-sole-survivor-of-an-ancient-lunar-catastrophe/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - Using the James Webb Space Telescope to probe one of the Solar System's strangest moons, Caltech researchers have found that Neptune's moon Nereid may be an original survivor...
- [New “Fossil” World Beyond Neptune Complicates the Hunt for Planet Nine](https://www.argo.net/new-fossil-world-beyond-neptune-complicates-the-hunt-for-planet-nine/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - A study in Nature Astronomy has added a sharp new constraint to one of planetary science's most persistent mysteries. Astronomers report the discovery and orbital analysis of 2023...
- [Hubble Spots a Galaxy Swarm Bending Light From the Early Universe](https://www.argo.net/hubble-spots-a-galaxy-swarm-bending-light-from-the-early-universe/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - NASA's Hubble image of the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211 reveals a crowded cosmic scene where hundreds of galaxies gather in one field of view and the cluster's gravity bends...
- [ESA’s New Arrakihs Mission Will Read the Hidden Fossil Record Around Nearby Galaxies](https://www.argo.net/esas-new-arrakihs-mission-will-read-the-hidden-fossil-record-around-nearby-galaxies/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - ESA's official adoption of the Arrakihs mission has moved a new galactic archaeology spacecraft into development, with launch planned by the end of 2030. The mission will search...
- [NASA’s Chandra Spots Possible Supernova Remnant Near the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole](https://www.argo.net/nasas-chandra-spots-possible-supernova-remnant-near-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/index.html.md): 2026-06-15 - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has announced a possible supernova remnant buried in Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the center of the Milky Way. The finding, described in...
- [Webb Spots a 50-Million-Sun Black Hole That May Have Formed Before Its Galaxy](https://www.argo.net/webb-spots-a-50-million-sun-black-hole-that-may-have-formed-before-its-galaxy/index.html.md): 2026-06-15 - Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have mapped gas orbiting a black hole in the tiny galaxy Abell2744-QSO1, finding evidence that the black hole was already...
- [A 4-Inch Telescope Spotted a Tiny Starlight Dip That Helped Transform the Search for Alien Worlds](https://www.argo.net/a-4-inch-telescope-spotted-a-tiny-starlight-dip-that-helped-transform-the-search-for-alien-worlds/index.html.md): 2026-06-15 - A study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reported a tiny dimming around the Sun-like star HD 209458, giving astronomers one of the clearest early signs that a planet...
- [ESA Spacecraft Catch Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS From Across the Solar System](https://www.argo.net/esa-spacecraft-catch-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-from-across-the-solar-system/index.html.md): 2026-06-15 - The European Space Agency has mounted a Solar System-wide observing campaign for Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor discovered on July 1, 2025. After automated detection systems alerted...