The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse
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The Best Photos of the Big Solar Eclipse
It’s been a century since the Iberian Peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in the path of totality.
'Deepen India-US space partnership': NASA invites ISRO to join Moon Base project under Artemis Accords
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'Deepen India-US space partnership': NASA invites ISRO to join Moon Base project under Artemis Accords
The invitation was announced after the ninth meeting of the India-US Civil Space Joint Working Group, held at Isro headquarters in Bengaluru on August 5-6. | India News
NASA invites ISRO for Moon base programme, seeks wider space cooperation with India
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Nasa invites Isro for Moon base programme, seeks wider space cooperation with India
NEW DELHI: Nasa on Tuesday invited Isro to join its Moon Base programme under the Artemis Accords, as India and the United States discussed expanding cooperation in civil and commercial space activities.
In pictures: Eclipse turns daylight into darkness in Europe.
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In pictures: Eclipse turns daylight into darkness in Europe - BBC News
Millions of people across Europe put on special glasses to watch the Moon’s shadow carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent.
NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon - NASA
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NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon - NASA
The barren lunar landscape has some important resources, such as water and minerals like iron and titanium, but extracting and processing them will require
After 68 Years, Caltech Will Have to Bid to Keep JPL Contract
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Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past
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Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past
Venus may be overwhelmingly inhospitable today, but many planetary scientists believe that it wasn't always this way. Billions of years ago, some observational evidence suggested that our planetary neighbor ...
'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise | The mineral was corundum, the crystalline material that forms rubies and sapphires.
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'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise
How did it get there?
Astronomers Discover a Brand-New Type of Object: Part Black Hole, Part Star.
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Astronomers Discover a Brand-New Type of Object: Part Black Hole, Part Star
The researchers are calling it a "one in a billion" discovery.
Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery
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Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery
"Something spectacular must have happened in the early universe."
Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
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Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
AI data centers in space sound great, but practically speaking, they may be next to impossible.
Explore The Moon With A Prob Mini-Game
An exploring the moon game where you land as a rover and have to find this lost probe. Was it taken by aliens?
Playable here, online and free: https://www.glitch.fun/games/6bd2c447-1770-441b-b94b-bceed5e81e87/play
Anyone have any thoughts or feedback on it?
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An exploring the moon game where you land as a rover and have to find this lost probe. Was it taken by aliens?
Playable here, online and free: https://www.glitch.fun/games/6bd2c447-1770-441b-b94b-bceed5e81e87/play
Anyone have any thoughts or feedback on it?
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Play Regolith Online | Glitch
Play Regolith online on Glitch. Two hundred and fourteen days ago, the lunar outpost Beacon-9 transmitted four seconds of empty carrier before...
Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027 (gif) [250x270]
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From the solareclipse community on Reddit: Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027 (gif) [250x270]
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Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 (gif) [250x270]
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From the solareclipse community on Reddit: Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 (gif) [250x270]
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The Moon's shadow sweeps across the Arctic Ocean
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The Moon's shadow sweeps across the Arctic Ocean | EU Space Support Office
On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse crossed the Arctic Ocean, eastern Greenland, western Iceland, and the northern half of Spain. The area covered by the full eclipse was at most 294 kilometres wide, and the high Arctic remained outside of it, under…
Three supermassive black holes discovered in a single galaxy for the first time
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Three supermassive black holes discovered in a single galaxy for the first time
An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has identified three actively accreting supermassive black holes in the galaxy J0148-4214. Matter is falling ...
Corundum Discovered by SuperCam and the Perseverance Rover at Jezero Crater, Mars
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Corundum Discovered by SuperCam and the Perseverance Rover at Jezero Crater, Mars
For the first time, corundum (α-Al2O3) has been identified on Mars. It is found within plagioclase-rich pebbles on the Jezero crater rim
Corundum was identified by the presence of distinctive Cr3...
Corundum was identified by the presence of distinctive Cr3...
Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society, to Headline 2026 Voices for Mars: Global Youth Roundtable: Watch the live Zoom interview on Wednesday, August 26, at 4:00 pm ET.
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The Mars Society is the world's largest and most influential space advocacy organization dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. Established by Dr. Robert Zubrin and others in 1998, the group works to educate the public, the…
Ukraine’s Flamingo Missiles Strike Russia’s Soyuz Rocket Factory Behind Its Starlink Rival
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Ukraine’s Flamingo Missiles Strike Russia’s Soyuz Rocket Factory Behind Its Starlink Rival
A large fire erupted at Russia's Progress Rocket Space Centre after a missile attack. Could this Ukrainian strike cripple Moscow's space program?
Two decades after IAU 'demotes' Pluto, it's still a star
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Two decades after IAU 'demotes' Pluto, it's still a star
In two decades since Pluto lost its status as a planet, debate remains over the International Astronomical Union's vote.