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NASA

• Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain
  June 16, 2026
  The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.
• Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11
  June 16, 2026 by Stephen Carney
  Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event, Explore JPL. On Oct. 10 and 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PDT, visitors will get the chance to visit JPL’s most iconic facilities and explore four thematic areas: Missions That Changed the World, Moon to Mars, In […]
• NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions
  June 15, 2026
  The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remnants, or the debris from these explosions, showing dramatic changes in their brightness. […]
• NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from New Jersey Students
  June 15, 2026 by Gerelle Q. Dodson
  Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event is hosted by Newton Public Schools […]
• NASA’s SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon Returns Packed with Space Station Science
  June 15, 2026 by Christian M. Getteau
  Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Biological and materials samples, along with tested hardware, are heading back to research teams on Earth for further analysis, advancing NASA’s […]

SpaceNews

• Gilat to buy Comtech satcoms business six years after failed merger
  June 15, 2026
• Space Force orders two more GPS satellites from Lockheed Martin for $514 million
  June 15, 2026
• DARPA to explore ways to rapidly rebuild satellite networks if attacked
  June 15, 2026
• What’s the Best Way to Monetize Space Energy?
  June 15, 2026
• Sustained maneuver has a propulsion problem
  June 15, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Key mission for Europe's commercial space enterprise scrubbed again
  by Stephen Clark
• Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth
  by Scott K. Johnson
• Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated
  by Jennifer Ouellette
• Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
  by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News
• Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
  by John Timmer