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August 11, 2026
It's the year's most anticipated meteor shower. In 2026, the Perseids could put on a beautiful display in the August sky... provided you know when and where to look.
On Wednesday, August 12, France will witness a partial solar eclipse, with coverage ranging from nearly 90% in the east to 99.5% in Biarritz. Timings, map, weather, glasses…
Using stellar occultations over the past decade to monitor the state of Pluto's atmosphere from Earth, a team of astronomers has reached the…
Celestial mechanics is unforgiving: for an observer on Earth, a total solar eclipse never lasts more than eight minutes. And yet, to unveil the secrets of the solar atmosphere…
On August 12, 2026, the Sun will disappear from Spain's sky. But did you know it will happen again in less than a year? August 2, 2027 promises a total eclipse if…
As the total eclipse of summer 2026 approaches, memories of the 1999 one resurface. I remember as if it were yesterday that day spent in Moselle with my family, looking for…
The surface of the Moon is a bleak and forbidding place that might be hiding a lot of water ice on and under the dusty landscape. However, most possible ice deposits don't just stand out in an…
Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist, led a study suggesting that Europa’s icy shell may be a stronger barrier between the moon’s hidden ocean and its surface than previously thought.
Gen. Michael Guetlein says Congress must find a way to finance the next phase as most initial funding is already committed The post Golden Dome faces 2027 funding cliff appeared first on SpaceNews .
According to a report from the SpaceScout portal citing an ESA document, further development of the Ariane 6 is being discontinued. This would affect, among other things, a future upgrade…
A collection of star clusters imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope The post Hubble’s Star Clusters appeared first on NASA Science .
We will provide updates on the progress of the report, solicit feedback, and recruit to contribute to the direct text. The post Isotopes SAG Meeting, 18 August 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .
GHGSat has achieved first light for its two newest methane-monitoring satellites, Eleonore and Nuray. The spacecraft, designated C-16 and C-17, recently captured their initial images of industrial…
A snowflake cannot form out of nothing. Water vapour will sit in the air quite happily, supercooled and reluctant, until it finds a speck of dust to build on and then it crystallises around it…
The chemical intensity of early love mimics mental illness—a state that nature seems designed to burn out within a year or so, just when couples must decide if anything real remains. The post People…
A legendary financial bubble turns out to be built largely on satire, rumors, and one historian's unchecked borrowing from another. The post Much of the familiar story of Dutch tulip mania traces…
Hunting for dark matter usually means building something enormous and burying it — a tank of liquid xenon in a mine, a magnet the size of a lorry, decades of engineering and a great deal of money. A…
This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large sections of space. Roman will help astronomers…
Ask what lies inside a black hole and the honest answer has always been a bit of a shrug and something about a singularity, a point where density becomes infinite and physics stops being able to…
The data helps investigate the growth of black holes, the evolution of galaxies and the formation of the largest structures in the cosmos. The post The hidden universe gains 2 million new points on…
NASA officials say they are confident in plans to launch a nuclear electric propulsion demonstration mission by the end of 2028 after visiting the national lab building the mission’s reactor. The…
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Katalyst Space uploaded a flight software update that reestablished attitude control of its LINK spacecraft, which is set to boost NASA’s Swift observatory. The post NASA Swift Boost Spacecraft…
Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Overview Capabilities Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Overview The Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Laboratory (GMRO)…
Overview The Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Laboratory (GMRO) studies the mechanics of materials in a launch pad environment, especially the mechanics of soil at Lunar and Martian…
Capabilities The post Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Capabilities appeared first on NASA Science .
Directed-energy and cyber weapons, as well as bombs targeted on communications hubs, all have potential to disable large satellite constellations, said Lt. Col. Rick Zellman, deputy commander of US…
The Red Planet's carbon dioxide cycles through fleeting transformations—frozen snow at the poles, ephemeral frost that vanishes with dawn, and daytime sublimation that skips the liquid phase…
The project comes amid growing commercial activity in orbit and the expectation of more missions to bring space materials back to Earth. The post NASA wants an in-space hangar to speed up returns of…
Capabilities and Specialized Equipment The following electrostatic testing, measurement, and analyses can be performed in high and low temperatures, pressures, humidity and at various atmospheric…
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