The Sky Today on Friday, July 17: The Moon skims south of Venus
Back to Article List The crescent Moon slides south of Venus this afternoon and stands side by side…
India’s First Private Orbital Rocket Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 Set For July 18 Launch
New Delhi: Hyderabad-based space startup, Skyroot Aerospace is set to make history on July 18 with the first…
A raptor in the snow and a helicopter escape
During a recent visit to National Geographic headquarters, Pol told me that back in 2019, his team had…
Quantum Materials Find May Boost Extreme Electronics
TUCSON, Ariz. — University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated a promising new application for graphene nanoribbons, a nanoscale…
Overnight Water Restrictions To Come Into Effect In Parts Of North Clare Tonight
Overnight water restrictions will come into effect in parts of North Clare tonight. Uisce Éireann says it’s introducing…
Hidden planet found around nearby star Beta Pictoris
Astronomers have found a hidden planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. This star, 63 light-years away in the…
Seven fragments hidden inside lunar dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission came from a rare, water-rich type of asteroid never before confirmed on the Moon — suggesting these fragile bodies bombarded the ancient Earth–Moon system far more often than Earth’s meteorite record implies
The finding begins at a scale easy to miss. Researchers studying dust and rock returned from the far…
The Sky Today on Thursday, July 16: The Moon passes the Lion’s heart
Back to Article List Earth’s satellite sits near Regulus in the heart of Leo the Lion this evening,…
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Some breakthroughs in physics come from brand new inventions. Others begin with a new theory. But many advances…
FLEX and Sentinel-3C arrive at Europe’s Spaceport
Applications 16/07/2026 686 views 24 likes With liftoff scheduled for September, excitement is building at Europe’s Spaceport in…
We tend to think dark energy has always pushed the universe outward at the same steady rate, but a 2025 survey of 13.1 million galaxies found it appears to have been stronger for the first nine billion years, then began weakening around 4.5 billion years ago
For most of the past three decades, physicists have treated dark energy as a constant. It is the…
Nature study identifies a new way to spot nuclear weapons in orbit
NEW YORK — A study published last week in Nature Astronomy has proposed a new satellite design and…