•Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says excavation will begin within two weeks on Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, despite a pending lawsuit and concerns it will disrupt histor…
•The National Capital Planning Commission opens its first federal review of a proposed permanent Lafayette Park fence and underground White House visitor center as part of Trump's continuing capital m…
•A companion review highlights how advanced 3D radiation-transfer modeling will improve interpretation of light from stars, exoplanets and kilonovae captured by the mission.
•NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope powers on its Coronagraph Instrument, beginning a months-long calibration phase for direct imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks.
•President Trump awards the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
•Artemis II completes a historic far-side lunar flyby, coming within about 4,067 miles of the Moon, as Trump touts plans for a nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship.