Roman Telescope Update, China's Shenlong Mystery Deepens, and Quantum Breakthroughs in Space

Roman Telescope Update, China's Shenlong Mystery Deepens, and Quantum Breakthroughs in Space

It's Wednesday June 25, 2026 and your daily space and astronomy briefing is here. Anna and Avery cover six stories including NASA's Roman Space Telescope arriving at Kennedy Space Center just 10 weeks before launch, China's Shenlong spaceplane releasing a mystery object first detected by radar in New Zealand, the upgraded Cold Atom Lab aboard the ISS now creating quantum states five times larger than before, the latest on Boeing's Starliner-1 return-to-flight, a Starfall update (it's still in orbit!), and a stunning cosmology discovery from the infant universe.

🔭 Astronomy Daily | Season 5, Episode 123 📅 Wednesday, June 25, 2026 🌐 astronomydaily.io 🐦 @AstroDailyPod

Chapter Timestamps
• 0:00 — Intro
• 1:00 — Roman Space Telescope Arrives at Kennedy
• 3:30 — China's Shenlong Spaceplane Releases Mystery Object
• 6:00 — NASA Cold Atom Lab Gets Its Final Upgrade
• 8:30 — Boeing Starliner-1: Committed But No Timeline
• 11:00 — SpaceX Starfall Update: Still in Orbit
• 13:30 — REBELS-25: Cold Gas Reservoir in the Early Universe
• 16:00 — Outro