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Science & Discovery
Something May Have Survived the 'Whippet' — the Most Powerful Star-Shredding Explosion Ever Seen
New spectra from AT2024wpp, a black hole's 400-billion-Sun star-shredding flare, show helium gas racing away at over 6,000 km/s months later — hinting a dense clump of the star, or a companion object, made it out alive.
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Military Space
Space Force Spreads $60 Million Across Five Companies to Keep Its New Satellite Network From Having a Single Point of Failure
Amazon, Lockheed, Northrop, Rocket Lab, and York each pocket roughly $12M to prove their satellites can talk to a backbone SpaceX is building — and to each other.
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Commercial
SpaceX Sets Falcon 9 Turnaround Record With Twin Launches 38.5 Minutes Apart
SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets from opposite U.S. coasts just 38.5 minutes apart on Aug. 15, 2026, setting a new back-to-back cadence record with a Globalstar replenishment mission from Florida and the classified USSF-366 flight from California.
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Science & Discovery
A Cosmic Breadcrumb Trail: First Stellar Stream Found Outside the Milky Way Offers New Way to Weigh Dark Matter
Astronomers combing archival Hubble images spotted the first confirmed globular-cluster stellar stream beyond our galaxy, in a faint dwarf 115 million light-years away — and the technique could finally let us map dark matter in galaxies other than our own.
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Military Space
Guetlein Opens Golden Dome's Doors to Startups With a New 'Ecosystem Hub' — As Funding Runs Toward a Cliff
At the Huntsville missile-defense symposium, Golden Dome's director unveiled a website for startups to pitch concepts directly — even as he and Space Command's outgoing chief warned the $185 billion program could stall for lack of funding by October.
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Missions
Six Balloons, Twenty Student Teams: NASA's 2026 Fort Sumner Campaign Marks HASP's 20th Flight
NASA's Balloon Program Office opens its 2026 Fort Sumner campaign with six flights, headlined by the 20th launch of the student-built High-Altitude Student Platform after a record-setting integration round.
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Astronomy
Twenty-Two Bow Shocks: Astronomers Catch the Helix Nebula Recycling a Dying Star's Debris in Real Time
A partially built telescope in Chile has resolved 22 distinct bow shocks in the Helix Nebula's outskirts, giving astronomers a rare direct measurement of how a dying star's ejecta gets shredded and mixed back into the galaxy over roughly 10,000 years.
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Stargazing
Venus Hits Its Widest Evening Separation From the Sun This Weekend — Here's How to Spot It
Venus reaches greatest eastern elongation on August 15, sitting 46 degrees from the Sun at magnitude -4.4 for its best evening show of 2026, with a crescent Moon and Spica as guideposts.
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Science & Discovery
Black Holes Older Than the Big Bang Could Explain Dark Matter, New Study Suggests
A University of Portsmouth cosmologist argues that black holes from a universe that existed before our own could have survived a cosmic "bounce" and still be hiding in plain sight as dark matter.
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Military Space
All 12 Golden Dome Interceptor Contractors Clear First Design Milestone — But a Funding Cliff Looms
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and ten other contenders have passed Gate 1 of the Pentagon's space-based interceptor competition, but officials warn the $185 billion Golden Dome missile shield could stall as soon as October without new funding.
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NASA & Agencies
Veteran Astronaut Mike Fincke Retires From NASA After 30 Years and a January Health Scare in Orbit
NASA confirmed Aug. 12 that four-flight veteran Mike Fincke is retiring after 30 years with the agency, seven months after losing his voice for 20 minutes aboard the ISS forced an early end to his Crew-11 mission.
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Commercial
Virgin Galactic Pushes First Commercial Delta Spaceflight to February 2027
Virgin Galactic told investors its new Delta-class spaceship won't fly paying customers until February 2027, blaming a pile-up of tiny tolerance and installation snags rather than one big failure.
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