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NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

Russia has warned European governments of potential escalation across the continent after Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign reportedly inflicted severe damage on Russian oil and gas infrastructure, with claims of destroyed export terminals, refineries and drilling platforms cutting into export revenues. The threat, issued by the Russian Defence Ministry, follows reports of a wave of European […]

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China’s Shenzhou-21 astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, installing debris-protection hardware and inspecting the orbital outpost.

The astronauts who flew around the moon on Artemis 2 said they were confident the Orion spacecraft is ready to support future missions.

Over-preparation isn't anxiety — it's a private policy response to a specific remembered humiliation. Understanding the mechanism changes what actually fixes it.

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Week in images: 13-17 April 2026

Discover our week through the lens

Compliment-struggle isn't modesty or grace. It's a real-time audit where accomplished people try to reconcile external praise with an internal self-image that refuses to update without documentation.

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A revised draft of a proposed European Union space regulation is a step backward, creating uncertainty about how the law would be applied outside the EU, critics argue.

The mobile industry’s most ambitious plan to end cellular dead zones is colliding with an unglamorous obstacle: its own fragmentation. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, direct-to-device satellite services dominated the show floor, with contract announcements between constellation operators and mobile network operators arriving almost daily. Yet behind the momentum, a warning is hardening into […]

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