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Technicians prepare the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spacecraft before its 2004 launch at Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

NASA confirmed Swift’s atmospheric re-entry over North Sumatra on November 4, ending a mission that observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts.

November 5, 2026

by Amanda Graham

Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

The Purdue-backed team that called its evidence "very strong" says the Taraia Object in Nikumaroro's lagoon was most likely a collection of large trees, not Amelia Earhart's Electra. Its steel-tube find and castaway theory survive, but no outside specialist is

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Image accompanying Euronews reporting on the end of leap seconds in 2027

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

Global timekeepers have voted to end leap-second adjustments from May 20, 2027. The new rule allows

Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13

Five members of the SPEARS battery team stand and sit beside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Langley Research Center

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

NASA's SPEARS solid-state battery cells worked down to minus 80 degrees Celsius in vacuum tests at Langley and survived minus 170. The Moon's South Pole night reaches minus 200, and the release

October 14, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Composite image of the Treble Clef radio source, looping pink filaments inside a blue haze of hot cluster gas, with background stars

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

A radio shape nicknamed the Treble Clef, first taken for a pulsar, appears to be a black hole's old outburst revived by a collision of two galaxy clusters behind the Milky Way,

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Artist's concept of a banded red and purple brown dwarf against a starry sky and the Milky Way

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

NASA's SPHEREx telescope measured 37 nearby brown dwarfs and found water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane. The best models still struggle through the cloudy transition, and thousands more objects are waiting

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Webb NIRCam image of a star field and distant galaxies with an inset enlarging a small blue dwarf galaxy marked by a white cross

Webb Traces Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Surprisingly Tiny Galaxy

Webb and the MeerKAT telescope traced the most distant fast radio burst yet to a tiny star-forming galaxy about 3 billion years after the Big Bang. The host is 1,000 times lighter

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

A diver beside an amphora on a rocky seabed at the shipwreck site near Kekova Island

Turkey Says It Found a Shipwreck 800 Years Older Than Its Last ‘Oldest’

Turkey's culture minister says archaeologists have found the world's oldest known shipwreck near Kekova Island, estimated at 4,400 to 4,700 years old. The date rests on pottery and earlier surveys, the hull

October 14, 2026

News·Science

Rover tracks crossing a rocky slope on the western rim of Jezero Crater, seen by Perseverance's navigation camera

Perseverance Passes Opportunity’s Record With 28.10 Miles on Mars

Perseverance passed Opportunity's off-world driving record on Sunday, reaching 28.10 miles against a mission plan of no more than 12.4. JPL credits AutoNav, which has done over 90 percent of the driving.

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

A glowing blue jellyfish-shaped exhaust plume from the Falcon 9 second stage in the pre-dawn sky over Florida

Final Roll-Out Solar Arrays Launch to an Aging Space Station

A Falcon 9 launched a cargo Dragon with the final two roll-out solar arrays for the International Space Station on Tuesday, with docking set for 11 a.m. Thursday. NASA says they complete

October 14, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Waxing Gibbous moon at 96% illumination on September 24, 2026, two days before the Harvest Moon peaks

Moon Phase Today, September 24, 2026: Waxing Gibbous at 96% as Harvest Moon Nears

Two days before the Harvest Moon, the Waxing Gibbous climbs to 96% illumination on September 24, 2026, rising in Pisces alongside Saturn and faint Neptune — a preview of the spectacular full-moon

September 24, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Diagram showing all eight phases of the lunar cycle, from New Moon through First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter

Moon Phase Today – September 18, 2026: First Quarter Moon at Apogee

On September 18, 2026, the First Quarter Moon rises at midday with roughly 46% of its disc illuminated, coinciding with lunar apogee — the moon’s farthest orbital point this month. The result

September 18, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Full Harvest Moon rising in September 2026 photographed by Mike Linnihan

Moon Phase Today – September 16, 2026: Waxing Crescent at 29%, Harvest Moon in 10 Days

The moon phase today, September 16, 2026, is a Waxing Crescent at approximately 29 percent illumination, five days into the lunar cycle following the September 11 New Moon. The First Quarter arrives

September 16, 2026

Astrology·Astronomy·News·Science

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NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA’s Moon Battery Works at Minus 80C, but the Lunar Night Hits Minus 200

Treble Clef Radio Shape Traced to Black Hole Outburst and Cluster Crash

SPHEREx Spectra Expose Where Brown Dwarf Models Go Wrong

Webb Traces Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Surprisingly Tiny Galaxy

Turkey Says It Found a Shipwreck 800 Years Older Than Its Last ‘Oldest’

Perseverance Passes Opportunity’s Record With 28.10 Miles on Mars

Final Roll-Out Solar Arrays Launch to an Aging Space Station

Moon Phase Today, September 24, 2026: Waxing Gibbous at 96% as Harvest Moon Nears

Moon Phase Today – September 18, 2026: First Quarter Moon at Apogee

Moon Phase Today – September 16, 2026: Waxing Crescent at 29%, Harvest Moon in 10 Days

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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