The Democratic Republic of Congo government and M23 rebels have reportedly signed a tentative agreement in Switzerland to ease humanitarian aid deliveries, release prisoners within 10 days, and establish a ceasefire monitoring mechanism, according to a joint statement reported by Al Jazeera. Fighting on the ground has continued. The deal emerged from five days of […]

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Vulcan would be allowed to fly lower-energy missions as investigation of solid rocket motors anomaly continues

AST SpaceMobile promised investors 45 satellites in orbit by year-end. After losing BlueBird 7 to a New Glenn upper stage failure in April, the company said it still expects one to two launches per month through the rest of 2026. The rocket that just failed its customer will likely be grounded for months pending an […]

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Mercury’s magmas may not play by Earth’s rules. Laboratory work suggests that the innermost planet’s sulfur-rich, iron-poor chemistry could fundamentally alter how molten rock crystallizes, meaning planetary scientists cannot safely borrow terrestrial assumptions when reconstructing how Mercury’s mantle solidified. Research using the Indarch meteorite, an enstatite chondrite, as a stand-in for Mercury’s building blocks has […]

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X-ray light from a cluster of more than a thousand galaxies has just forced astrophysicists to rewrite a central chapter in the story of how the universe builds its elements. Studies of data from Japan’s Hitomi telescope have found that the standard theoretical models describing what massive stars forge in their dying moments may be […]

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China has built or is building dozens of satellite factories with a combined theoretical output of over 7,000 spacecraft per year, yet launched just several hundred satellites in 2025 — a gap that defines both the ambition and the bottleneck of the country’s commercial space buildout. The figures come from a survey by Chinese space […]

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Parker Solar Probe has become the first human-made object to fly through the Sun's corona and survive. Its data is rewriting half a century of stellar physics, from the origin of the solar wind to the coronal heating problem.

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Research suggests these rare, intensely bright explosions known as luminous fast blue optical transients may originate when a neutron star or black hole collides with a massive Wolf-Rayet star after being flung out of its birthplace by a supernova kick. Recent analysis examined multiple LFBOT events and found they consistently occur in star-forming galaxies, but […]

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Palestinian schoolchildren in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair held lessons on rocks beside a barbed wire fence this week, turning a settler-built barrier into the backdrop of what organizers called the ‘Umm al-Khair Freedom School.’ The protest followed reports that students were cut off from their classrooms by a fence Israeli authorities […]

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