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NASA

• Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
  June 16, 2026
  Description NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge and operated from Earth, CAL chills atoms to temperatures below minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius), so close […]
• NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation
  June 16, 2026
  Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our own form and evolve over time. A globular star cluster typically has only […]
• NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade
  June 16, 2026 by Naomi Hartono
  Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies. By leveraging the unique environment of microgravity in space, the lab can accomplish cutting-edge science impossible to do anywhere else. Quantum […]
• NASA Uses Machine Learning to Enhance Flash Flood Warnings
  June 16, 2026
  The Transient Artifact and Continuous Learning System (TACLS) leverages data from continuously operating satellite networks coupled with machine learning models to help meteorologists at the National Weather Service forecast flash floods more efficiently.
• Department of Health and Human Services Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network Challenge
  June 16, 2026 by Bailey G. Light
  NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. Sponsored by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the U.S. Department of […]

SpaceNews

• Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander
  June 16, 2026
• Swiss decision to not contribute to Copernicus tests program’s value model
  June 16, 2026
• The SpaceNews space unicorn tracker
  June 16, 2026
• Katalyst Space raises $12 million for GEO servicing demo mission
  June 16, 2026
• PiLogic partners with Air Force lab to test satellite fault-prediction software
  June 16, 2026

ArsTechnica

• Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
  by Aman Azhar, Inside Climate News
• 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