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August 1, 2026
What’s shaking about water ice deposits on the Moon? Turns out that assessing how seismic waves propagate on the Moon could be used to locate and map ice buried beneath the lunar surface. A new…
Is Mattel's 'Man in Space' getting a deserved live-action film in the near future?
On Episode 221 of This Week In Space, Tariq Malik and guest host Rick Jenet of the National Space Society talk about SpaceX's Starship Flight 13, which survived reentry intact enough to float.
On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA canceled the production of its Saturn V moon rocket, one year before the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, spelling the end of the Apollo program due to budget concerns.
The dinosaurs may not have starved through a years-long winter. New evidence suggests a blanket of ultrafine impact dust set the planet on fire within hours.
HELSINKI — China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also upgrading its on-orbit communications relay capabilities. A Long March 6A rocket…
Omnisys, Thales' Brazilian subsidiary and a recognized Strategic Defense Company (EED), officially announced on Tuesday (28) the largest industrial expansion in its history. With an investment…
Born Aug. 1, 1818, Maria Mitchell was raised in the Quaker tradition, which allowed equal education for boys and girls. This, plus lessons from her father, afforded her the opportunity to become…
40 years later, 'Flight of the Navigator' remains an ambitious cult classic that refuses to speak down to its target audience.
Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this…
Last weekend, control over the attitude control of LINK, the rescue mission for Swift, was lost, leading to a multi-axis tumble and loss of communication. The…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast late on Friday night (July 31).
By: Defensa de México The ceremony marked the end of a highly demanding academic stage and the start of new professional challenges for the graduates, called to exercise leadership…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 31: Mercury brightening With the Moon rising later each night as it wanes, there’s a slightly longer dark window…
At the center of the Milky Way there is a supermassive black hole…
We have been watching asteroid (44) Nysa for well over a century without ever really knowing what it looks like. Now the sharpest images ever taken of it, from two of the largest telescopes on…
This month we’ve got three big celestial events to cover: eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and especially good prospects for the Perseid meteor shower. Plus we’ll track down a few planets, and gaze at…
The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, with its largest Moon, Triton, comprising more than 99.5 percent of the mass of all of them. Triton’s incredible size has led scientists to hypothesize it was…
A partial lunar eclipse is visible across the U.S. this month, while a total solar eclipse occurs in Europe. Venus dominates after sunset, reaching 50% illumination. Most planetary activity is after…
Although the early evening sky boasts only one naked-eye planet, quality more than makes up for the lack of quantity. Venus attains a splendid peak when it reaches greatest elongation Aug. 15. It…
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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has published an image showing the spread of aerosols emitted by active wildfires on the Iberian Peninsula and in southern France at…
Pluto’s moon, Charon, is one of the most unexplored (and arguably underappreciated) planetary objects in the entire solar system. This is primarily because it’s only been visited once by NASA’s New…
AW | 2026 07 31 21:43 | AIRLINES Low-cost would turn into cargo airline Low-cost carrier Flybondi is going through a severe operational crisis due to a lack of aircraft, mass cancellations and…
July 31, 2026
Given the state of our technology, it would take a spacecraft a ridiculously long time to reach even the nearest star in our galaxy. However, scientists continue to ponder ways in which we could…
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We just got an amazing new view of SpaceX's Starship vehicle in space, thanks to one of the company's Starlink V3 broadband satellites.
When NASA awarded the HLS (Human Landing System) lunar lander contract to SpaceX in April 2021, Artemis III was the mission meant to return humans […] The post The watered-down lunar landers of…
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When NASA awarded the HLS (Human Landing System) lunar lander contract to SpaceX in April 2021, Artemis III was the mission meant to return humans […] The post The watered-down lunar landers of…
A £3 million investment could help secure a leading UK role in NASA’s future search for life on nearby planets. An Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star would appear as little more than a dim…
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