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GWTC-5 Gravitational Wave Census, Tianwen-2 at Kamoʻoalewa & TESS Microlensing
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The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration drops its biggest-ever catalog with 390 confirmed gravitational wave detections — and that's just the start of today's stories. From China's Tianwen-2 arriving at Earth's quasi-satellite to TESS detecting its first microlensing planet, space science is hitting new milestones across the board.
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Three hundred and ninety confirmed gravitational wave detections. That's where we stand today, after the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration released its fifth and largest catalog, GWTC-5.
The same logic applies to exoplanet detection. TESS just found its first microlensing planet, and the method matters as much as the discovery itself.
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, Earth's quasi-satellite. The asteroid is between forty and one hundred meters across and shares Earth's orbital neighborhood without technically orbiting it.
Curiosity has reached a stretch of Gale Crater covered in polygonal terrain and scattered dark rocks. The team doesn't yet know where those dark pebbles came from.
Elsewhere: NASA is formally recruiting volunteers for a year-long isolation mission beginning August twenty twenty-seven at Johnson Space Center. The study targets the psychological and physiological effects of confined long-duration spaceflight.
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