2026-08-07T08:39:59.065Z Do clouds ruin a total solar eclipse? Clouds won’t necessarily sour your eclipse expedition. (Image credit: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images) One of the biggest worries before any eclipse is weather.While a perfectly blue sky is ideal, you don’t necessarily need one to enjoy the experience. Even under thin clouds, many of the most dramatic effects … Read more
Two NASA astronauts installed the seventh and final set of mounting hardware for new sets of solar arrays during a successful 6.5-hour spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.Jessica Meir and Anil Menon on Thursday (Aug. 6), assembled the modification kit for one of the space station’s eight power channels, which will allow for the … Read more
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager 2, involving two heaters and another device that was kept on to keep providing sufficient heat to the spacecraft to allow it to keep functioning. … Read more
Earth’s metallic core contains almost all of the planet’s gold, including enough, by one widely cited calculation, to spread a layer about 50 centimetres deep across every continent. None of that makes the core a mine. It begins roughly 2,900 kilometres down. What changed in 2025 was not the accessibility of that gold, but the … Read more
Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission to reverse its approval of a startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project’s potential impacts on wildlife, astronomy research and eye safety.DarkSky International, Environment America, the American Bird Conservancy and Public Employees for Environmental … Read more
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Like hoverboards, teleportation or smart glasses that don’t make you look like an absolute twat, space colonisation is a technological advent long-promised but as yet undelivered. Before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the moon, the US military was envisaging a long-term lunar outpost. The cost proved prohibitive and the Apollo missions came and went, … Read more
South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crash BBCScientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted AP NewsSouth Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket’s moon crash The Press DemocratNASA Will Attempt to Observe Rocket Part’s Lunar Impact NASA (.gov)SpaceX rocket thought to … Read more
For Anil Menon, Thursday’s mission represents years of preparation culminating in one defining moment. India’s growing footprint in space exploration reached another landmark on Thursday as Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Anil Menon stepped outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the very first time.For Menon, it will be more than just a routine maintenance mission.It will … Read more
A spent rocket body hitting the moon made headlines this week, but the reality is that the unplanned collision by a SpaceX upper stage was just the latest in a long history of human-made objects meeting their end by impacting the lunar surface.Astronomers around the world kept their telescopes trained on the moon early Wednesday … Read more