APOD: 2026 July 17 – The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
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Inspired by IDF training, Israeli activist spearheads fight against global wildlife crime
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Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step
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Tesco halts sales of disposable barbecues over wildfires
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‘It’s beautiful’: Astronomers find atmosphere on a nearby Earth-like planet – The Irish Times
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings…
Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in April 2026, flying exactly 4,101 miles farther — then proposing names for two lunar craters as the crew passed overhead
The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a…
In Renens, Switzerland, a company called SWISSto12 is building geostationary satellites the size of an industrial washing machine and a fifth the mass of the multi-ton spacecraft they replace, and this week it raised $70 million on a bet that governments would rather own one outright than lease capacity on someone else’s constellation
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NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
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FCC Approves First Launch for Space Reflector Constellation
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The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA’s confirmed exoplanet archive
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‘My eyes were stinging’: New Yorkers navigate smoky air and soaring temperatures | New York
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Vikram-1: India's first private space rocket by Skyroot to carry diamond flower – BBC
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