Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
In November 2025 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) targeted interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with five science instruments, collecting remote‑sensing data on the object’s activity, coma chemistry and dust to characterise its behaviour and composition during the visitor’s inner‑solar‑system passage.
The Hill
• Mark R. Whittington
By The Hill: The opening of space to human commercial activity is a prospect to be welcomed eagerly.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec. 21 in the final flight of a record-setting year for the company.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones.
NASA
• John Uri; Kelli Mars
By NASA: An urban legend tells the story of how, dissatisfied with the micromanagement of their daily timelines, the Skylab-4 crew staged a strike, some called it a.
Wall Street Journal
• Andrew Tangel
By Wall Street Journal: FAA documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show an explosion of SpaceX’s Starship on Jan. 16 posed a greater danger to planes in the air over the Caribbean than was publicly known.
By Spaceflight Now:  In a prelude to the real deal, the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission boarded their Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
