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NASA attempts to contact the silent MAVEN Mars orbiter after 40 days—but prospects look grim. Plus: the first-ever ISS medical evacuation su

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In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incredible 829 kilometres from Texas to Missouri, setting a mind-boggling world record for the longest continuous flash ever captured on Earth
On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in one continuous 7.39-second flash — the world record, confirmed by satellite.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 test launch aborts at last second (video)
"To be confident of a good flight, 2 Raptors will be removed & replaced. Most probable launch timing is early next week."
New findings revise the Milky Way-Andromeda collision odds into a cosmic coin toss
The Milky Way’s predicted collision with Andromeda now looks more like a cosmic coin toss than a fixed destiny.
Earth’s atmosphere does not end where space begins—it stretches beyond the Moon, meaning lunar astronauts were technically still inside it
Space does not begin at a clean edge where Earth's air abruptly stops. The atmosphere thins continuously, molecule by molecule, until its outermost

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Spacecraft Commissioning On Track for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift - NASA Science
Teams continue to progress through in-orbit preparations for the robotic servicing spacecraft designed to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher altitude.
Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a collision almost weekly, and experts fear the worst
"I think we're heading towards a situation where there will be a collision involving an operational satellite in the constellation."
Famous System Has a Third Star: Beta Pictoris d
Two teams of astronomers independently discovered a third giant gas planet orbiting in the famous Beta Pictoris system.
What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 launch on July 16? (Full mission timeline)
SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 test mission on July 16.
NASA Unveils Technologies That Could Build the Future of the Moon and Mars
NASA is teaming up with 37 companies to develop the next generation of technologies that could make long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars possible.

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Starship Flight 13: Potentially the final Suborbital Flight -
Just about two months after the first Block 3 Starship flight with Booster 19 and…
'Found you!' Astronomers spot faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth after a decade of hide-and-seek
"The new planet is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b, the famous planet in the same system, making it the faintest exoplanet ever imaged directly from Earth."
Q: Why does debris in geosynchronous orbit stay there essentially forever, when junk in low Earth orbit eventually clears itself out?
A: Low orbits have traces of atmosphere that drag debris down to burn up. At ~36,000 km, GEO sits far above the atmosphere — anything left there just keeps circling, potentially for millions of years.
SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone — and that 1970s machine is still running, sending data back to Earth from interstellar space
Imagine building something today — anything, a car, a phone, a piece of software — and having someone tell you it needs to still be working perfectly in

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Q: Reflect Orbital's newly licensed demonstration satellite shares its name with which Tolkien character?
A: Eärendil — the mariner who sails the sky bearing a shining star. Eärendil-1 will unfurl an 18-metre thin-film reflector to beam sunlight to the ground at night.
Russia's launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts to the International Space Station on July 14: Watch it live
Liftoff occurred at 10:47 a.m. ET, and the spaceflyers reached the ISS three hours later.