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August 26, 2026
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"The speed of the project, the buzz and the pomp make it all very questionable." In response, Shotwell said SpaceX plans to keep much of the site undeveloped and that…
Urban noise is reshaping how animals communicate, with Berlin's nightingales demonstrating that evolution doesn't wait for generations—it happens in real time. The post Berlin’s nightingales turn up…
Finnish-headquartered sovereign intelligence provider ICEYE has announced the establishment of two new subsidiaries, ICEYE Netherlands and ICEYE India, operating from Amsterdam and New Delhi…
China’s Long March-6C carrier rocket has successfully launched and deployed seven satellites into their orbits from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on 25 August 2026. The launch took place at…
SpaceX has announced plans to construct a new Starship processing and launch complex in Louisiana designed to support thousands of launches annually. Located in Vermilion Parish, the proposed…
In the early hours of Friday 28 August 2026, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible, including from Italy. It will begin in the dead of night and reach its maximum shortly before…
Can one eclipse hide another? After the big rendezvous on 12 August, the Moon is about to cross Earth's shadow to eclipse itself in turn, almost totally. This time…
Tomorrow night, weather permitting, the full Moon over the Americas is going to do something it will not do again for more than two years. Beginning in the late evening of Thursday, August 27…
NASA Deep Space Network logs show that a distant observer on the Earth–Mars line would have occupied one of humanity's Martian uplink beams 77 percent of the time from 2005 through 2024. The post…
The M31 galaxy, in the constellation of Andromeda, is producing almost no new stars anymore. That is the finding of a team of astronomers who examined data from the Hubble telescope…
Webb separated two Project Hephaistos red dwarfs from dusty galaxies only about one arcsecond away, showing that WISE had blended their infrared light. Five original candidates still await equally…
The post APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST Images The Lion’s Head Nebula appeared first on NASA Science .
Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past. The post A Changing World for Emperor Penguins…
A demilitarized zone meant to keep humans out has become a sanctuary for wildlife—but studying it requires binoculars, soldiers, and an intimate knowledge of where the landmines end. The post…
Crossmare aims precisely to establish an architecture capable of integrating those capabilities and facilitating cooperation between the authorities responsible for maritime security in different…
Meanwhile, Orbotic Systems plans to incorporate the devices as a platform for detection missions in VLEO, including the development of a specific sensor for data collection…
The European Union (EU) will test in Spain a new generation of technologies for surveillance of its maritime borders through the Crossmare project, an initiative that will combine…
SpaceX has unveiled plans for “Starbase, Louisiana,” described as the largest private spaceport in the… The post Starbase, Louisiana: The Largest Private Spaceport in the World appeared first on…
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SpaceX and Louisiana have announced a 125,000-acre Starship campus targeting a first flight in 2029, but its $100 billion full-buildout plan and thousands-per-year capacity still depend on vehicle…
Webb's MIRI spectrum identifies molecular water and oxygen-rich silicates around IRS 3, while projected geometry and the dust-production inference require careful separation. The post NASA’s James…
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The instrument is scheduled to launch on August 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket…
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SpaceX successfully recovered a rocket that had landed in the sea off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, the company founded by Elon Musk announced. The 52-meter-long…
Using a state-of-the-art galaxy simulation, a team led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) gained new insights into the processes shaping galactic centres across…
A humble spice cabinet staple sparked colonial conquest, slavery, and genocide—all for the sake of flavoring eggnog. The post There’s a jar in your kitchen that costs about two dollars. Seven…
Dust suspended in the Martian atmosphere changes the way sunlight scatters and creates a sky different from what we see on Earth…
Frozen regolith should accelerate, reflect and scatter moonquake waves in recognisable ways, allowing future surface arrays to prioritise deep lunar ice targets before drilling. The post Scientists…
One axion-dark-energy model hides a negative cosmological constant beneath today’s acceleration, producing an 11-billion-year turnaround and a 33.3-billion-year lifespan. The post After two decades…
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August 25, 2026
Jupiter accounts for almost all the mass left over after the Sun; understand the math and see the comparison with a one-kilogram bag of flour…
Gemini classified real and bogus candidates across three optical surveys from only 15 in-context examples each, but speed, cost and explanation fidelity still limit deployment. The post Researchers…
A whale that last balanced prey on its head in 1987 has suddenly revived the trick, raising an unsettling question: what else do orcas remember across decades of silence? The post Killer whales in…
