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August 18, 2026
NASA is streaming live coverage as two astronauts prepare for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to last about six and a half hours.
Inmet warns of low humidity and high temperatures across most of the country, while the South faces heavy rain. Originally published on Olhar Digital.
The initiatives, named Depcon and Hydra, focus on developing advanced technologies to protect the electromagnetic spectrum and the security of strategic space assets…
A modern model built around Viking 2's frost photographs and weather record finds a narrow 30-sol season when microscopic calcium-perchlorate brines may briefly form in Martian soil. The post NASA’s…
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet's light, the…
The loneliness of adults in their sixties often lives not in empty rooms but in full ones, inside brief, well-meaning family calls that never quite have room for a real answer. The post Some of the…
Orbiting spacecraft captured incredible views of the moon's shadow darkening Earth during the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse.
Research reveals that dogs age much faster in their first years and that process slows down over time. Originally published on Olhar Digital.
A new telescope under construction in Chile has captured 22 luminous shock waves in the Helix Nebula, revealing how stellar debris dissolves into the interstellar medium…
What phase is the Moon in today, 18 August 2026? Check the full calendar for the month. Originally published on Olhar Digital.
More reliable broadband on remote Scottish railways and affordable sensors which help farmers grow more food.
Satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission is reaching emergency services up to three times faster, enabling a quicker response to wildfires in Europe – all thanks to teams at the…
Satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission now reaches emergency services up to three times faster, enabling a timely response to wildfires in Europe – thanks to the teams at…
Sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded bronze lump from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901. It turned out to be a hand-cranked mechanical computer with at least 30 precisely…
The initiatives will develop technologies to protect military communications and strengthen the security of strategic GEO satellites against more sophisticated threats. Integrasys, a company…
NRO contract increases U.S. government access to satellite data used to locate radars, ships and other electronic emitters The post NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence appeared…
Engineers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry partners have completed a concept study for Phoenix 3. The reusable spacecraft is meant to carry experiments in…
Engineers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry partners have completed an intensive concept study for Phoenix 3, a reusable spacecraft designed to fly experiments in microgravity and…
French astronaut Sophie Adenot performs her first spacewalk on 18 August starting at 14:35. We are relaying here the live feed from the space agency…
Simon and Garfunkel are a rare two-headed crested lizard that needs special care to develop…
Spotted hyenas combine expanded frontal brain regions with monkey-like skills for tracking rank, kin, alliances and numerical odds, a striking but carefully bounded case of convergent evolution. The…
SpaceX has agreed to keep Poland within Starlink’s European roaming region after the country’s foreign minister threatened to reconsider roughly $50 million in annual payments to the company. The…
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. August 17: Mars at Gemini’s feet Wait until after about 10 P.M. tonight to begin your deep-sky observing and the Moon…
Written by K.-P. Ludwig SPRIND’s 2026 space strategy imagines a sovereign European orbital economy built on innovation and autonomy. But the U.S. Space Command’s SWE 2040 describes a very different…
The Hubble Space Telescope has made it possible to identify traces of one of the oldest known mergers in the history of the Milky Way. About 11.8 billion years ago, when the […]…
Viasat, a satellite communications company, has selected Rocket Lab Corporation to build a satellite platform for the Space Systems Command (SSC) of the Space Force of…
A trillion-kilometer-long flow of gas is feeding the triple star system GW Orionis and could explain why its protoplanetary disk... The post A huge gas…
Four Webb secondary eclipses showed TOI-561 b is far dimmer than bare lava should be, pointing to a volatile-rich atmosphere that moves heat and may exchange gases with magma. The post A rocky…
