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June 18, 2026
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Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
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Happy Thursday, Space Fans, and welcome to our daily space news rundown. Our top story today sounds very James Bond (or maybe Mission: Impossible?) as an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time. Click the story above to see what it may mean for the future.

And that's not all. We've got ways to watch a SpaceX launch, a Mars marathon and a roasted exoplanet coming your way below. Let me know your favorite story from today!
 
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Space Quiz! Who was the 1st American woman in space?
Learn the answer HERE!
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Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on Mars
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So I can't run a marathon, but I do know a rover that can. NASA's Perseverance rover has passed the 26.2 mile mark to become the latest marathoner on the Red Planet. See what that milestone means here, and let us know if you've got the right stuff for a marathon here on Earth!
 
Run, rover, run!
 
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Watch SpaceX launch US spy satellites on June 19
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I did mention there was a SpaceX launch you could watch, but you will have to get up early. SpaceX is launching a batch of NRO satellites at 4:40 am ET on Friday morning. Here's how to watch.
 
Earlybird liftoff?
 
 
 
 
Search for Life
 
How should we handle E.T. detection in a world of AI?
Space.com
Steven Spielberg's alien conspiracy thriller "Disclosure Day" has invaded theaters and it got us wondering what would really happen if we found proof of E.T. So we talked to the astronomer who has led efforts to make sure any real alien detection will not be kept a secret. Here's what we found.
 
ET, real or deepfake?
 
 
 
 
Science & Astronomy
 
This extreme exoplanet is being roasted by its home star
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Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" in "Hot Jupiter." Can you take the heat? Find out here.
 
It's hot, Hot, HOT!
 
 
 
 
Today in Space
 
Photo of the day: Mars valleys hide 30 dust devils
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For today's space photo of the day, we're going to the Red Planet. Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien landscape. Can you find all 30?
 
They're there somewhere.
 
On this day in 1983: Sally Ride is 1st American woman in space
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Did you get this one right? This is was Space Quiz question, and you'll get extra points if you name the actor playing Sally Ride in her new biopic. Here's how the U.S. finally caught up to the then Soviet Union when it came to women in space decades ago.
 
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Tired of streaky "stars" in your binoculars when you're out observing? You may want to scale up to our writer's favorite image-stablizing optics, the Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640, which are are perfect for steady stargazing with 16x magnification, 40mm objective lenses and strong image stabilization, on sale for $275 off. Here's where to find it.
 
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Editor's Note
 
Have a great Thursday!
And that will be a wrap for today's space newsletter. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit Space.com Friday. We'll have an update on SpaceX's NRO satellite launch, a look at NASA's daring Swift Boost mission to save the Swift space observatory and more!

Until then, keep looking up!

Tariq Malik
Editor-in-Chief, Space.com
tmalik@space.com
 
 
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