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The latest release from the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration nearly doubles the tally of known cosmic mergers and reveals rare second-generation black holes.
Elon Musk's rocket company sold $75bn of shares as it went public for the first time, then launched a Falcon 9 mission on the very same morning.
The UK has unveiled a new system to track satellites, debris and potentially hostile objects in orbit, alongside the first images from a powerful military telescope, as ministers warn space is becoming a contested frontier.
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed sharp contrasts between the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121 b, where fierce winds drag heat across an ultra-hot planet.
Four astronauts, including a European Space Agency member, were unveiled on 9 June for a flight that will test the commercial landers built to put humans back on the lunar surface.
NASA says a long-running leak in the station's Russian segment grew during cargo operations, leading engineers to pause a planned repair and move the crew to a temporary safe haven.