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ALMA observations reveal a cone-shaped cavity carved into cold gas around Sagittarius A*, the first clear evidence of a wind blowing from the galaxy's central black hole.

A CNRS-led team used the VLT's SPHERE instrument to watch a protoplanetary disk spin, finding anomalies linked to forming giant planets.

China flew its new reusable Long March 12B for the first time on June 1, delivering operational Qianfan megaconstellation satellites with no public airspace warning.

After the May 28 New Glenn pad loss, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the agency is decoupling the Blue Moon landers from the rocket and would like them flown on a different launcher to protect Artemis deadlines.

A hotfire engine test at Cape Canaveral on May 28 destroyed New Glenn and LC-36, freezing Amazon's 24-launch satellite manifest and casting doubt on Blue Origin's role in NASA's 2026-2028 lunar program.

JWST has tracked the first complete daily cloud cycle on an exoplanet, finding that WASP-94Ab grows magnesium silicate clouds each morning and clears them each evening, while correcting a decade of skewed atmospheric measurements from Hubble.

NASA awarded contracts for lunar terrain vehicles, cargo landers, and a drone survey mission on May 26, marking the first concrete procurement step under the Moon Base program announced in March.

Astronomers used JWST's MIRI to directly study the surface geology of LHS 3844 b, a super-Earth 48.5 light-years away, revealing a basaltic, atmosphere-free world resembling Mercury — a first for exoplanet science.

The Florida space-energy startup, founded less than two years ago, will use the oversubscribed round led by B Capital to fly the first-ever space-based optical power-beaming demonstration later this year.

China's tenth Tianzhou cargo spacecraft lifted off from Wenchang at 8:14 a.m. Beijing time on May 11 and rendezvoused with Tiangong's Tianhe core module the same afternoon, delivering propellant, a new EVA suit, and six scientific payloads.

Katalyst Space Technologies finished thermal-vacuum and vibration testing of its LINK servicing spacecraft at NASA Goddard on May 4, 2026, on track for a June Pegasus XL launch to raise the Swift Observatory's decaying orbit.

Rocket Lab disclosed 31 new launch contracts plus five Neutron flights in the first quarter, then stacked three same-day announcements: an Anduril hypersonics order, a Raytheon-paired Space Force selection, and a Mars-veteran robotics acquisition.