Global Science Breakthroughs: Space Feats, “Universal” Antiviral & Earth’s Extreme Alarms (Aug 24–25, 2025)
SpaceX launched over 5,000 pounds of cargo to the ISS on Aug. 24, 2025, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule autonomously docking on Aug. 25 during NASA’s 33rd commercial resupply mission. Starship’s 10th flight test was scrubbed on Aug. 24, 2025, 30 minutes before liftoff due to a ground systems issue, with a retry planned as soon as Monday. The brightest and closest fast radio burst ever recorded, nicknamed RBFLOAT, originated in a galaxy 130 million light-years away in Ursa Major and was traced to the outskirts of galaxy NGC 4141 using CHIME. Columbia University researchers developed