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A staring contest and a captivating eclipse: the best photographs from Guardian readers

2026-08-25T12:58:43.469Z Do you want to photograph the lunar eclipse? Here are our top photography tips (Image credit: Josh Dury Photo Media) Planning to watch the deep partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28? Why not try to capture it on camera too? Photographing a lunar eclipse is considerably easier than photographing a solar eclipse: you don’t … Read more

Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but they were definitely worth staying up for. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink Internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday (August 25), at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT). designated B1067. The Falcon 9 is by far the most … Read more

NASA will broadcast the event live on August 30. NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will travel to space in a few days. It is scheduled to launch on August 30, no earlier than 7:26 a.m. ET, with NASA’s live coverage beginning at 6:20 a.m. The agency’s engineers completed final inspection of the … Read more

TUESDAY PUZZLE – This is a wonderful first grid from Bryan Kaproth-Gerecht. It’s packed with enough thematic elements to make for a great Sunday puzzle, but it’s presented with such finesse that the complexity of its construction may not hit you until the last minute, as was my experience. It’s also still a Fair Tuesday … Read more

Nancy Grace Roman was a pioneer as NASA’s first female executive and the space agency’s first chief astronomer in the 1960s and 1970s. Known as the “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” a new telescope bearing her name will launch on August 30. But the folks at Fox Business were a little confused by the … Read more

It’s not a story anyone would have believed if it weren’t so thoroughly documented. A pod of orcas in Antarctica is chasing a Weddell seal that has taken refuge on a small ice floe. The killer whales swim shoulder to shoulder to create a wave that drags the seal from the ice to the water. … Read more

Dark matter, the elusive, invisible matter that astronomers say makes up about 85% of the mass of the universe, does not interact with light. Scientists only suspect it’s there because of the way things we can see interact with it. But now, a team in China says it has found the most direct evidence of … Read more

Topline Researchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered microbes that can break down discarded plastic bottles and crop waste and turn them into protein-rich cookies, a step-by-step biological transformation that could address the problems of plastic pollution, a looming global food crisis and help sustain deep space missions with humans on board. A cookie is … Read more

The Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers peer into the distant cosmos, revealing a population of galaxies that had reached their massive size just 500 million years after the Big Bang. A closer look at those ancient galaxies suggests they may be even larger than previously estimated, challenging current models of the early universe. In … Read more