Odysseus lands successfully on the Moon, China is planning to build bricks on the lunar surface, James Webb finds the neutron star at the heart of supernova 1987 A, and Blue Origins finally rolls out New Glenn.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 00:17 USA's first Moon landing in 21st century
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165834/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lander-moon/

• 05:01 Lunar bricks from China
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165771/chinas-change-8-mission-will-try-to-make-bricks-on-the-moon/

• 06:39 Perseverance has a problem
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165742/nasa-is-trying-to-fix-a-problem-with-one-of-perseverances-instruments/

• 08:32 JWST finds a neutron star
  
  

  • https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-112

• 10:40 Kuiper Belt might be bigger than we thought
  
  

  • https://www.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas-new-horizons-detects-dusty-hints-of-extended-kuiper-belt/

• 13:07 Vote results

• 13:48 Space-grown drugs return to Earth

• 15:34 OSIRIS-REx sample mass
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165748/osiris-rexs-final-haul-121-6-grams-from-asteroid-bennu/

• 17:16 Interviews

• 17:54 New Glenn goes vertical
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165850/finally-blue-origins-new-glenn-goes-vertical-on-the-launch-pad/

• 19:07 Euclid begins its mission
  
  

  • https://www.universetoday.com/165755/euclid-begins-its-6-year-survey-of-the-dark-universe/

• 20:40 Moon landings

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