Flashes

The Breakthrough Listen project has found 15 sources of flashes in a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years away.

The flashes could be natural phenomena, but as yet they remain unexplained.

Harvey

NASA's Johnson Space Center closed during Hurricane Harvey.

The area around JSC got 42 inches of rain.

North Korea

North Korea launched a missile over Japan yesterday. 

The missile seemed to have the range to reach Guam.

Proxima b

A new study suggests Proxima b's atmosphere may have been stripped away by high energy blasts from its red dwarf parent, thus making the world uninhabitable.

Red dwarfs are extremely active, especially early on, so life around them may be rare.

Space Leadership

NASA is still operating under an acting administrator.  President Trump has yet to nominate a new one.

Mr. Trump has established a new National Space Council, however.

Florence

The asteroid Florence, at almost 3 miles across, will come within 4.4 million miles of Earth on September 1.

This will be its closest approach until after 2500.

Titan Mission

NASA is looking at a mission to Titan to study that world's interior.

There's a possibility that Titan has an ocean of liquid water under its surface.