NASA Evacuates Madrid Deep Space Network Station as Wildfire Shifts Operations to California

All 90 personnel were safely evacuated from the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on July 24, 2026, and communications with more than 40 spacecraft were handed over to Goldstone, California without interruption.

First Plausible Exomoon Found Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD-35 2722 System

ESO's Very Large Telescope has detected a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf in the CD-35 2722 system — the first plausible exomoon candidate found outside our Solar System, and a challenge to how we define moons versus planets.

James Webb Telescope Reveals Hidden Giant Planet in Beta Pictoris System

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a previously unseen gas giant orbiting one of astronomy's most studied star systems, using spectral analysis to peer through cosmic dust and reveal the planet's atmospheric composition.

Webb Telescope Finds Hidden Giant Planet by Its Atmospheric Chemistry

Webb's spectroscopic detection of Beta Pictoris d marks the first time an exoplanet has been found by its atmospheric chemical signature, not direct imaging — a faint giant hiding in archival data for 11 years.

ESCAPADE Launches: NASA's Cheap Twin Probe for Mars' Lost Atmosphere

NASA's $80 million twin-orbiter ESCAPADE mission launched aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on November 13, 2025. The 'Gold and Blue' spacecraft will use humanity's first simultaneous dual-spacecraft approach to study Mars' hybrid magnetic environment and the mystery of its lost atmosphere.