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'PROMISE' me the moon? NASA wants to send spare nuclear-powered Mars rover to the lunar surface
By Josh Dinner published
NASA has announced new lunar landing contracts for its Artemis Moon Base program, as well as a potential new moon rover mission named PROMISE.

Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite from New Zealand tonight
By Mike Wall published
Rocket Lab will launch its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS tonight (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

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

‘Just in time for Canada Day’: Spacewalking astronauts repair space station’s huge Canadarm2
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
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.

Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable
By Keith Cooper published
Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest.

Amazon Prime Day 2026: It's all over but you can still grab these deals
By Jase Parnell-Brookes last updated
Deals Amazon Prime Day is over. There are some deals available but most of the best savings have gone. Now to wait until Prime Day in October!

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

Rubin Observatory begins filming the 'greatest cosmic movie ever' beginning a new era of astronomy
By Robert Lea published
"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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