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Sunday, August 2

Ancient Stardust Were Seeds for the Earliest Solids in the Solar System
Caltech — 1:59 pm ET (1759 GMT)

Neptune's Inner Moons May Be Shattered Remains of Ancient Icy Worlds
Caltech — 1:24 pm ET (1724 GMT)

Three-lobed asteroid is a world unlike any other
Univ. of Arizona — 1:22 pm ET (1722 GMT)

Asteroid (44) Nysa May Be the First-Known Three-Lobed World
Lowell Observatory — 1:14 pm ET (1714 GMT)

Laying odds on the potential for Martian water
PSI — 1:04 pm ET (1704 GMT)

Pluto’s Atmosphere: Hazy with signs of thinning
PSI — 12:55 pm ET (1655 GMT)

Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have caused firestorms 17 times hotter than the thermal limit lethal to humans
SPACE.com — 9:08 am ET (1308 GMT)

Saturday, August 1

How the sun is stripping away Mars’ atmosphere
Eurekalert — 8:44 am ET (1244 GMT)

Scientists Use Moonquakes to Locate Lunar Ice
Univ. of Maryland — 8:44 am ET (1244 GMT)

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth
Wired News — 8:37 am ET (1237 GMT)

How to surf on Saturn’s moon Titan
Scientific American — 8:23 am ET (1223 GMT)

Friday, July 31

NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars
The Verge — 7:05 am ET (1105 GMT)

1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system — and it has a little moon
SPACE.com — 6:44 am ET (1044 GMT)

Spacecraft will swarm asteroid Apophis during fateful 2029 Earth flyby
Scientific American — 6:42 am ET (1042 GMT)

Thursday, July 30

NASA's Juno takes the subsurface temperature of Jupiter's fiery moon
SwRI — 6:58 am ET (1058 GMT)

A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect
SPACE.com — 6:40 am ET (1040 GMT)

Jupiter’s Moon Io is Surprisingly Fluffy
Sky & Telescope — 6:39 am ET (1039 GMT)

Jupiter’s deepest mysteries were hidden in shadow. Now we can see them
New Scientist — 6:35 am ET (1035 GMT)

Strange three-lobed asteroid seems to have its own tiny moon
New Scientist — 6:34 am ET (1034 GMT)

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures
NASA/JPL — 6:33 am ET (1033 GMT)

Next set of articles

K2 Space raises $500 million
Posted: Sat, Aug 1 10:40 AM ET (1440 GMT)

Roman Space Telescope on track for Aug. 30 launch
Posted: Sat, Aug 1 10:34 AM ET (1434 GMT)

No date yet for next Starliner flight
Posted: Sat, Aug 1 10:31 AM ET (1431 GMT)

Sunday, August 2

AST SpaceMobile to Host Second Quarter 2026 Business Update Call on August 10, 2026
AST SpaceMobile — 2:37 pm ET (1837 GMT)

AST SpaceMobile Announces Launch Date for BlueBird Satellites 11, 12, and 13
AST SpaceMobile — 2:36 pm ET (1836 GMT)

Redwire Corporation to Report Second Quarter 2026 Results on August 5, 2026
Redwire — 2:36 pm ET (1836 GMT)

Virgin Galactic Announces Date of Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Conference Call
Virgin Galactic — 2:33 pm ET (1833 GMT)

UAE Space Agency: 90-day grace period to regularise status of entities operating in national space sector
WAM — 2:17 pm ET (1817 GMT)

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