Space Industry Briefs

Microsoft’s experimental AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 difficult medical cases adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine — far above the 20% average achieved by 21 experienced physicians under benchmark conditions.

SpaceDaily

There’s never been a better time to be a German New Space company. Reflex Aerospace is Exhibit A

Space Intel Report

On 29 April 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in one continuous flash, far enough to reach from New York City to Columbus, Ohio before the thunder from its first end had finished rolling

SpaceDaily

Satellites can now tell a palm oil plantation from native rainforest by the precise angle its fronds bend the sunlight, reading the near-perfect planted lattice against the chaos of wild canopy — and the European Union’s 2023 deforestation regulation now leans on their ability to do exactly that

SpaceDaily

In the mudstones of a place called Bright Angel, Perseverance detected complex carbon molecules hundreds of times across two rocks, a find researchers called the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars

SpaceDaily

Euclid, the European telescope built to map the dark universe billions of light-years away, spent a single 26-hour stretch staring into the crowded center of the Milky Way and resolved more than 60 million stars, handing NASA’s Roman mission a reference map for the planet hunt it begins after launching in late August

SpaceDaily

The Black Holes That Burp Years After They Eat

Universe Today

An Island of Calm at the Violent Heart of the Galaxy

Universe Today

Ontario Child Dies From Rabies in First Locally Acquired Case Since 1967

ScienceAlert Space

In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar space.

SpaceDaily