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ESA's Euclid telescope has found 31 quasars from the universe's first billion years. EUCL J172902.75+641018.1, at redshift 7.77, breaks a record that stood since 2021, and the haul more than doubles the known quasars at redshift 7 or above.

Frank Cifaldi says downloading Grand Theft Auto VI and hoping it runs in 50 years is not a preservation solution, and asks the ESA for legal ways to archive digital-only games.

James Webb's NIRSpec spectrograph measured isotopic ratios in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it left the inner solar system, pointing to an origin during the universe's 'cosmic noon.'

ESA's Euclid Q2 release maps 4.8 square degrees of the galactic bulge, previewing Roman's 2027 exoplanet survey.

NASA assigned Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Andre Douglas, and Frank Rubio to Artemis III, a 2027 Earth-orbit test flight to practice docking with SpaceX and Blue Origin landers.

ESA and China's joint Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer launched on 19 May from French Guiana after a six-week delay, beginning a three-year mission to image the magnetosphere in soft X-rays and ultraviolet for the first time.

ESA's Mars Express has released a new HRSC image of Shalbatana Vallis, a 1,300 km equatorial channel that was carved when groundwater erupted onto the Martian surface roughly 3.5 billion years ago.

Berlin signing on 7 May commits Japan to launch ESA's Ramses probe on an H3 rocket in 2028, in time to escort Apophis through its 32,000 km flyby of Earth.

A Western University team led by Jan Cami used JWST's MIRI instrument to image planetary nebula Tc 1, finding C60 buckyballs confined to a hollow shell around the white dwarf and revealing an unexplained question-mark structure at the center.

A subsystem production defect forced Avio to delay the Vega-C VV29 flight carrying ESA and China's SMILE magnetosphere-imaging mission, originally set for April 9, with no new date confirmed.

UK startup Pulsar Fusion demonstrated the first-ever plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system, streaming the test live from Bletchley to Amazon's MARS Conference in California.

The joint ESA-Chinese Academy of Sciences SMILE spacecraft reached French Guiana after a two-week ocean voyage and is preparing for an April launch on a Vega-C rocket. It will be the first mission to image Earth's magnetosphere in soft X-rays.