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SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.

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Royal Society right to keep Elon Musk as member, says new astronomer royal

Prof Michele Dougherty, first woman to hold position, is upbeat about role of private sector in space exploration

The Guardian - UK

Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex organic molecules found in planet-birthing disk

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

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SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

Space

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tourism mission on Aug. 3

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

Space

SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to weather (video)

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.

Space

Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

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Venus reaches its highest point in the eastern predawn sky on Aug. 1: Here's how to see it

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.

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US lightning flash was longest on record at 515 miles, scientists say

The 2017 flash, which stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, beat the previous record by almost 50 miles

The Guardian - UK

Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: 'This has certainly increased the chances of habitability'

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.

Space

Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA today

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 31), and you can watch the action live.

Space

Australia’s first-ever rocket crashes after just 14 seconds of flight

Gilmour Space Technologies had earlier said it would consider the launch a success if the rocket left the ground

The Independent UK

SpaceX, NASA say Crew-11 astronaut mission is 'go' for launch to ISS on July 31

Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).

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JWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a preview of what's in store for our sun

The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star.

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Artemis 2 astronauts stress importance of their moon mission as NASA faces budget, workforce cuts: 'We have to move the needle.'

NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions.

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US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane launching Aug. 21 to test quantum sensor and laser-communications tech

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit.

Space

Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space.

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Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.

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Saturn's largest moon Titan casts a colossal shadow in breathtaking amateur portrait (photo)

Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth.

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Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation must be a global mission

Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.

Space

Powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite loaded up for launch in India | Space photo of the day for July 30, 2025

The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.

Space

'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston

The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation.

Space

'The most sophisticated radar we've ever built': US-Indian NISAR satellite launches to track tiny changes on Earth's surface (video)

The U.S. and India just launched NISAR, a powerful radar satellite that will be able to monitor changes in Earth's surface that are as small as a centimeter.

The Independent UK

Radar satellite launched by India and NASA will track miniscule changes to Earth's land and ice

NASA and India have paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite capable of tracking the slightest changes in land and ice

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds giant, lonely exoplanets can build their own planetary friends without a parent star

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their own planetary systems without needing a parent star.

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