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China delayed the Chang’e 7 Moon mission to 2027, citing need for “absolute success.” The mission includes a lander, rover, orbiter, and a mini-hopper probe.

Trump signed a space transportation policy targeting 1,000 launches yearly by 2030, replacing a 2013 Obama directive. New spaceports on federal land are central to the plan.

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned their robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory after attitude control failures grounded the Link satellite.

Tomb 209 in Thebes, built for a Nubian official in 754 BCE, tracked 700 years of Egyptian burial shifts using layered skeletal and stratigraphic data.

Marvel’s VisionQuest trailer led D23 in Anaheim, closing a WandaVision trilogy. Disney also revealed Ahsoka S2, Doomsday footage, and X-Men casting.

Czinger’s 21C Spyder debuts topology-optimized brake assemblies built via direct-metal laser sintering — hardware that looks organic and performs under extreme stress.

DEF CON attendees are suspected of spoofing Delta flight 591’s onboard Wi-Fi on Monday, triggering a federal law enforcement inquiry after pilots flagged the breach via ACARS.

Mount Toba’s eruption 74,000 years ago was a thousand times larger than Pinatubo, yet new sediment data shows it caused under two years of cooling and just half a degree of temperature drop.

Copernicus Browser added a wildfire visualization layer on August 4, letting anyone read Sentinel-2 satellite imagery with no technical setup required.

Critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers let attackers remotely backdoor enterprise servers. Some flaws are over a decade old and remain unpatched.