We’re getting a solar eclipse and shooting stars on the same day. How to see this summer’s cosmic double whammy
Mark your calendars for August 12, 2026, because there’s going to be something of a celestial double whammy…
Australia generates so much solar power that it is giving away free electricity to households for 3 hours |
Australia’s renewable energy boom has reached a remarkable milestone. The country now generates so much electricity from rooftop…
UK Seeks Spacecraft Self-Protection Technologies
UK Seeks Spacecraft Self-Protection Technologies | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Robert Wall July 08, 2026…
Tiny Carbon Rings Enable a New Form of Quantum Control
Matt Swayne With a several-decades long background in journalism and communications, Matt Swayne has worked as a science…
Voyager 1 will reach a new milestone in November 2026: it will be so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light will take a full 24 hours to reach it — a distance humanity’s most distant spacecraft crossed in just over 49 years of continuous flight.
In November 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a boundary that is not marked by dust, plasma, gravity or…
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government…
This is one hour of satellite trails over the world’s darkest sky. Astronomers say nearly 2 million planned satellites could be ‘devastating’
The amount of artificial satellites in the sky is getting worse and, if left untempered, will brighten the…
Heatwaves are dangerous but they’re also a useful warning of what needs to change
As another heatwave reaches the UK, it is worth asking an uncomfortable question: is there any positive side…
Rocket test flight could be attempted from Shetland in August
Temporary traffic orders would be in place in north Unst to handle visitors trying to see a launch,…
Africa’s wildlife laws follow a colonial model which separates people and animals: why it’s not working
Africa is home to many iconic national parks and marine reserves, such as Virunga in the Democratic Republic…
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons
SCIENCE Advanced Space’s privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency’s role is over After four years…
RSPB buys ‘magical’ landscape to support rare Celtic rainforest and endangered birds
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Cymru has purchased a 96-hectare upland area of land…