Space

SPACE PULSE Thursday, 17 July 2026 — Edition 155 ⚡ TL;DR Starship Flight 13 lifts off tonight carrying 20 V3 Starlink satellites in its first-ever payload delivery, while Perseverance rewrites Martian geology with a 3.9-billion-year impact record at Jezero Crater's rim. A busy 24 hours

SPACE PULSE Wednesday, July 16, 2026 ⚡ TL;DR Webb and ESO's VLT have together unveiled a third giant planet at Beta Pictoris, making it one of the most richly characterized young planetary systems known. The day runs busy across launches, Mars surface science, and a steady drumbeat of

⚡ TL;DR * Soyuz MS-29 launched today from Baikonur at 14:47 UTC, delivering NASA astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS; separately, Hubble and Webb together found the first confirmed stellar-mass black hole inside the globular cluster Omega Centauri. [1] [2] [3]

SPACE PULSE Monday, July 14, 2026 — Daily Briefing ⚡ TL;DR Hubble and Webb together have located the first confirmed stellar-mass black hole inside the iconic globular cluster Omega Centauri, solving a long-standing "missing black holes" puzzle in one of the sky's most studied clusters.

SPACE PULSE Sunday, July 13, 2026 — Edition for 2026-07-12 22:00 UTC ⚡ TL;DR Today's dominant story is an active geomagnetic disturbance reaching G1 Minor storm level, backed by elevated high-energy electron flux and solar radio burst activity persisting across the full UTC day. It

⚡ TL;DR JUICE spacecraft has returned the first compositional spectra of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near perihelion, marking a landmark moment in interstellar object science. A busy week for space news: new exoplanets, a billion citizen-science classifications, elevated solar electron flux, and a packed arXiv. 🚀 LAUNCHES UPCOMING LAUNCHES * SpaceX