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Science & Discovery
A Faint X-Ray Flash Just Filled In the 'Missing Link' Between Ordinary Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts
China's Einstein Probe caught a brief X-ray shock breakout from a dying Wolf-Rayet star that had all the makings of a gamma-ray burst but never fired one, giving astronomers just their second clean look at this elusive process in two decades.
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Science & Discovery
Giant Solar-Wind Waves Are Tearing Mars' Atmosphere Into Space, MAVEN and Tianwen-1 Reveal
A Boston University-led study pairing NASA's MAVEN with China's Tianwen-1 finds solar-wind-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz waves flinging Martian ions into space at 10-100 times the rate of previously known escape channels.
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NASA & Agencies
NASA Unveils Crew-13 Lineup as Station Preps for a Busy Stretch of Spacewalks and Science
NASA introduced the four-person SpaceX Crew-13 team at Johnson Space Center on August 3, 2026, ahead of a mid-September Dragon launch, while Expedition 75 gears up for an August 7 spacewalk to prep a new solar array platform.
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Astronomy
Asteroid (44) Nysa May Be the First Known Three-Lobed 'Trinary' World — And It Has a Moon
New adaptive-optics imaging from the LBT and VLT shows main-belt asteroid (44) Nysa has an unprecedented three-lobed shape and a previously unknown ~1 km moon, possibly making it the first confirmed contact-trinary asteroid.
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Stargazing
Comet 10P/Tempel 2 Hits Peak Brightness at Closest Earth Approach — Its Best Return of the Century
Jupiter-family comet 10P/Tempel 2 brightened to roughly magnitude 8-9 as it passed within 61 million km of Earth on August 3, 2026, offering Southern Hemisphere observers with binoculars or a small scope the best view of this comet for the rest of the century.
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Military Space
True Anomaly's Jackal Spacecraft Pulls Off the First In-Space Chase of an Actively Evading Satellite
In a Space Force demo, True Anomaly's autonomous Jackal-0004 tracked, planned, and closed to 10 km of a dodging Rocket Lab satellite in under an hour of decision-to-intercept time.
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Astronomy
Astronomers Finally Measure the Full Size of the Universe's Largest Known Galaxy
Ultra-deep imaging has pinned down the true edge of IC 1101, confirming it spans 1.7 million light-years and 3.4 trillion solar masses — and it's still growing from a merger 2-3 billion years ago.
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Science & Discovery
Curiosity Finds Mars' Largest Honeycomb-Patterned Field Yet in Valle Grande
Climbing Mount Sharp, Curiosity photographed a sprawling field of inch-wide honeycomb fractures in Valle Grande — the biggest such formation in its 14-year mission, with its origin still unresolved.
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NASA & Agencies
ISRO and JAXA Lock Down the Handshake Between Chandrayaan-5's Lander and Its Japanese Rover
At a Bengaluru meeting in late July, Indian and Japanese engineers finalized how their lander and rover will talk to and power each other on the Chandrayaan-5/LUPEX mission to hunt for lunar water ice.
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Military Space
SpaceX Launches Classified NROL-95 Spy Satellite for the NRO
A veteran Falcon 9 booster flying its seventh mission delivered a secret NRO payload to orbit before sticking a pre-dawn landing at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 2.
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Stargazing
August 2026 Skywatching Guide: Perseids Peak Under a New Moon, Flanked by a Total Solar Eclipse and a Near-Total Lunar Eclipse
A moonless Perseid peak, a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain, and a 93-96% partial lunar eclipse over the Americas make August 2026 one of the year's busiest skywatching stretches.
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Stargazing
A Fresh Flare and Two Inbound CMEs Set Up a G1 Aurora Watch for August 1-2
Two glancing-blow CMEs and a new M1.9 flare have NOAA forecasting a 25-30% chance of minor G1 geomagnetic storming August 1-2, with best US viewing odds in the northern tier — though a near-full Moon will blunt the show.
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