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NASA and Katalyst Space cancel Swift rescue mission 
AZ Family
NASA telescope doomed after Flagstaff company’s rescue attempt fails
CNN
Rescue mission can’t prevent NASA observatory from falling to Earth
By Ashley Strickland
The New York Times
NASA’s Attempt to Save Its Falling Telescope Has Failed
By Kenneth Chang
NASA (.gov)
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
ScienceAlert
Large Hadron Collider Reveals an Atomic Nucleus Shaped Like a Bowling Pin
By Michelle Starr
Phys.org
A little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the universe's first moments
Popular Science
Scientists smash atoms together to create ‘little’ big bangs
By Andrew Paul
American Physical Society
Quark–Gluon Plasma Jet Leaves a Wake
By Rachel Berkowitz
Partial lunar eclipse to occur on August 27 and 28 
Space
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
By Daisy Dobrijevic
NBC4 WCMH-TV
When to see the deep partial lunar eclipse in central Ohio
By Stephanie Thompson
NBC 5 Chicago
A lunar eclipse will occur next week, but can Chicago-area residents see it?
Statesman Journal
How to see next week's lunar eclipse in Oregon's Willamette Valley
By Kenny Mcmillen
Ars Technica
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
By Scott K. Johnson
Scientific American
Orbital data centers could outshine the Milky Way
By Arielle Frommer
Reuters
Satellite proliferation imperils astronomical observations, study finds
Houston Chronicle
In 10 years, satellites will erase the stars. Save the night sky now. | Opinion
Opinion
By Krista Lynne Smith
SpaceX Starlink launch 
Florida Today
Scrub! SpaceX halts Starlink launch countdown with just 28 seconds left
By Rick Neale
Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral following last-minute scrub
By Will Robinson-Smith
Florida Today
See images of SpaceX rocket blazing across sky on Florida's Space Coast
By Rick Neale
Space Daily
On 19 August 2026, SpaceX pushed its Starlink constellation past 11,000 satellites in orbit — meaning a single network now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all active satellites circling Earth.
San Andreas Fault earthquake in California 
ABC7 Bay Area
San Andreas Fault: New San Jose State University research finds fault is slipping faster than previously thought
The Inertia
San Andreas Fault Could Shake Northern California Sooner Than Scientists Thought
By Evan Quarnstrom
Daily Signal
The ‘Big One’ Is Coming: Is California Ready for the Next Major Earthquake?
By Angelina Delfin
Yahoo
California scientists sound alarm over San Andreas Fault’s surprising movement
By Daniel Farr
NASA images reveal crater from SpaceX rocket Moon crash 
AL.com
NASA reveals before-and-after images of moon crater left by SpaceX rocket
By Kayode Crown
NASA Science (.gov)
NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details
CNN
New images reveal what happened when a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon
By Jackie Wattles & Ashley Strickland
The Washington Post
Before-and-after images show where SpaceX rocket crashed into the moon
China's Chang'e-7 lunar probe 
Reuters
China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system's coldest places
By Ryan Woo & Ethan Wang
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
China's bid for lunar water launches Sunday as the new space race heats up
By Matthew Glasser
Space
China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
By Leonard David
Ars Technica
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
By Eric Berger
Astronomers discover fastest known star in the Milky Way 
Space
Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It zooms around our black hole at 15,500 miles per second
By Stefanie Waldek
Nature
Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sagittarius A*
By Stefan Gillessen, Silvia Scheithauer & Joel Sanchez-Bermudez
The Brighter Side of News
Milky Way’s fastest star revolves around the central black hole at 15,500 miles per second
Carbon dioxide increase in African savannas 
Phys.org
Rising carbon dioxide is supercharging grass growth in African savannas, study finds
By Swati Mestri
Nature
Increasing CO2 levels fertilize C4 grass production
By Corli Coetsee, Brad Ripley & Maria Val Martin
Yahoo
Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna
Engineering and Technology Magazine
Rising CO2 boosts grass growth in Africa’s dry savannahs
By Tanya Weaver
Greenland's Petermann Glacier 
European Space Agency
Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier
Dailynewsegypt
Greenland’s Petermann Glacier edges closer to dangerous retreat
Sanskriti IAS
Greenland's Petermann Glacier Calves Massive Ice Island: Largest Arctic Calving Event Since 2020
European Space Agency
Size of new iceberg calved from Petermann Glacier
Mars Express in Schiaparelli Crater 
Space
Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video of the crater where Mark Watney was stranded in 'The Martian'
By Josh Dinner
Yahoo
Spaceship snaps amazing views of crater made famous by ‘The Martian'
By Dean Murray
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Bird's-eye view of Schiaparelli – flying around a giant Martian crater
Yahoo News UK
Spaceship captures detailed new view of 'The Martian' stranded astronaut crater
'Dark Photon' study 
Space
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
By Robert Lea
UA.NEWS
Simulations have expanded the possible parameters for the existence of “dark photons”
Newswise
New Study Widens the Hunt for Dark Photons | Newswise
Phys.org
Early-universe plasma may have stopped dark photons from heating cosmos
By Sadie Harley
Total solar eclipse occurs over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain 
The Washington Post
Column | How I captured an image of the sun’s atmosphere during a solar eclipse
By Matthew Cappucci
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
I went in search of Spain's total solar eclipse – and found something much more special
By Yvette Cook
Ars Technica
The Moon’s shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
By Stephen Clark
NASA Science (.gov)
APOD: 2026 August 17 - A Golden Corona Eclipse
By Keighley Rockcliffe, Cecilia Chirenti & Robert J. Nemiroff
Earth microbes may survive in shadowed regions of the Moon 
Space
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find
By C. C. Cheung
NASA Science (.gov)
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds
By Lonnie Shekhtman
404 Media
Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
By Becky Ferreira
Chosunbiz
NASA flags microbe survival risk in lunar south pole shadows ahead of 2028 mission - CHOSUNBIZ
Ars Technica
Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss
By Stephen Clark
Phys.org
Dark Stars may have left gravitational-wave echoes across the universe
Astronomers discover potential black hole star 
Live Science
Black hole star? Solar-system-size 'dot' from the early universe is our best evidence yet of a brand-new type of cosmic object
By Harry Baker
NPR
Why scientists are stoked about mysterious black hole stars : Short Wave
By Regina G. Barber
Nature
A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn
By Anna De Graaff, Jorryt Matthee & Arjen van der Wel
Smithsonian Magazine
Astronomers Peered at the Early Universe and May Have Discovered a New Kind of Celestial Object: Black Hole Stars
By Margherita Bassi
Quanta Magazine
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
Impact study of Deimos moon 
CNN
A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon
By Ashley Strickland
Nature
Deimos’s shape and geology explained by a subcatastrophic impact
By Martin Jutzi, Sabina D. Raducan & Carolyn M. Ernst
Phys.org
A single asteroid impact may explain the appearance of Mars' moon Deimos
Межа. Новини України.
A 320-Meter Asteroid Impact May Have Shaped Mars’s Moon Deimos
Research in Nature Communications details narwhal tusk growth 
Reuters
3D X-ray imaging unlocks the secrets of the narwhal's spiral tusk
By Will Dunham
Popular Science
Narwhal tusks are twisty, magical mathematical marvels
By Laura Baisas
Scientific American
What makes a narwhal’s tusk so special? Scientists are close to unraveling the mystery
By Jackie Flynn Mogensen & Jackie Flynn
Ars Technica
X-rays add new twist to narwhal’s spiral tusk
By Jennifer Ouellette
Space Daily
The Moon is rusting even though it has no air and almost no liquid water — and the leading explanation is that oxygen escaping Earth rides our magnetic tail 385,000 kilometres into space during the few days each month when the solar wind is blocked
Whale calls and physics 
Gizmodo
These Whale Calls Appear to Break Physics, but the Truth Is Even Weirder
By Gayoung Lee
Phys.org
An echo of Einstein: An unexpected link between whale calls and special relativity
By Nathi Magubane
American Physical Society
Whale Calls Reveal an Unexpected Wave Effect
ScienceAlert
Energy Can Move Faster Than The Speed of Light Thanks to Weird 'Loophole'
By Michelle Starr
Scientists on cat's signature urine smell 
Sci.News
Scientists Solve Century-Old Feline Mystery
Newser
Scientists Find Hidden Messages in Cat Pee
By Arden Dier
Popular Science
Scientists pinpoint the chemicals behind a cat’s signature urine smell
By Laura Baisas
Live Science
Secret 'messages' in cat pee let felines identify each other — and scientists just cracked the code
By Skyler D. Ware
SciTechDaily
Scientists Revisited a Forest Experiment That Was Forgotten for 30 Years. What They Found Was Astounding
Space Daily
A saltwater crocodile has the most powerful bite ever recorded in a living animal, strong enough to crush bone and hold prey with terrifying force — yet the muscles that open the same jaws are so weak a person can hold them shut with their hands
By Daniel W Moran
Universe Today
New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
By Bruce Dorminey
Astronomers discover dense "mega-Earth" exoplanet GJ 523b 
Yahoo
Mystery "mega-planet" 23 times more massive than Earth baffles scientists
NewsNation
Researchers identify ‘Mega-Earth,’ prompting questions of how it formed
By Zach Kaplan
Detroit Free Press
New 'mega-Earth' found in space. What did astronomers discover?
By Jenna Prestininzi
Space
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky 'mega-Earth' 23 times more massive than our planet
By Samantha Mathewson
Phys.org
Interplanetary spacecraft capture a coronal mass ejection component hidden from Earth
By Sam Jarman
SciTechDaily
Something Mysterious Just Passed Between Earth and a Distant Star
IAI TV
New theory of information physics could solve cosmology's gravity crisis
By Melvin M Vopson
Phys.org
RNA droplets may have helped start life on Earth
Scientists' crush of diamond 
Gizmodo
Scientists Recreate the Melting ‘Diamond Rain’ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power
By Matthew Phelan
Nature
Diamond melting in shock compression experiments at 1 TPa pressures
By Amy Lazicki, Marius Millot & Peter M. Celliers
ZME Science
Scientists Melted Diamond at Temperatures Hotter Than the Sun. It Behaved Very Strangely
By Tibi Puiu
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (.gov)
Melting diamond could unlock triple fusion gain and the secrets of ice-giant planets
Voyager 2's journey 
extremetech.com
NASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles Away
By Graham Templeton
The New York Times
Inside NASA’s ‘Big Bang’: A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers Alive
By Kenneth Chang
Space
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 launches to the outer planets
By Hanneke Weitering & Josh Dinner
Rustavi2
Nearly half a century has passed since "Chakrulo" began its cosmic journey; on August 20, 1977, unique Georgian polyphony became part of humanity`s shared message - US Embassy
Quantum Droplets of bosons and fermi 
Gizmodo
Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter
By Gayoung Lee
Phys.org
Physicists predict a new form of quantum matter that holds itself together
Tech Explorist
A strange quantum droplet could defy decades of conventional thinking
By Amit Malewar
IFLScience
Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermions
By Alfredo Carpineti
Yahoo
The Sun’s Magnetic Field is Behaving Oddly. Astronomers Still Don’t Know Why.
By Zack Savitsky
Space Daily
An octopus was filmed carrying two halves of a coconut shell across the seafloor to reassemble them later as a portable suit of armour, one of the only clear cases of a wild invertebrate using tools.
Forbes
‘Exciting’ Earth-Like Planet Found Close To The Solar System
By Jamie Carter
The Economist
Physicists nab the elusive glueball
Space Daily
Astronomers announced in January 2026 that they had found a 710-metre asteroid — nearly eight football fields across — spinning once every 1.88 minutes. A normal rubble-pile asteroid should tear itself apart at anything close to that speed, meaning 2025 M
Phys.org
Scarce emergence of new species drove the decline of African megaherbivores, study suggests
Science Daily
Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite
Nautilus | Science
Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree
By Ian Towle
Phys.org
Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries
Sci.News
Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
Fibrinogen discovery on wound healing 
Financial Times
Blood clot discovery upends consensus about how wounds heal
By Clive Cookson
Phys.org
Fibrinogen discovery reshapes understanding of how wounds heal
By Sadie Harley
Scientific Frontline
Fibrinogen Discovery Rewrites Wound Healing Science
By Philipp Gutfreund, Jayne Lawrence & Juan M. Ruso
Mirage News
Fibrinogen Breakthrough Redefines Wound Healing
Space Daily
Biosphere 2 was built to test whether eight people could survive completely sealed off from the rest of Earth for two years — but inside its glass walls, cockroaches and stowaway ants boomed while most of the birds and pollinators died.
James Webb Space Telescope examines Neptune's inner moons and rings 
Space Daily
Two of Neptune's tiny inner moons contain clay minerals that could not have formed on worlds so small and cold — suggesting they're built from the exposed interiors of much larger moons shattered when the captured Kuiper Belt world Triton tore through Nept
The Japan News
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Signs of Ancient Disaster for Neptune’s Moons
Astrobiology Web
Neptune’s Inner Moons and Rings Are Exposed Icy Body Interiors
By Keith Cowing
Phys.org
Neptune's tiny moons tell the story of Triton's destructive capture
Space Daily
A sheep separated from a flock member for over two years will still recognise that face — and researchers measuring brain activity found the neural circuits held a selective encoding of the individual
Gizmodo
Bigfoot-Like Ancient Apes Might Have Been Closer to Humans Than We Realize
By Matthew Phelan
Space Daily
Mars may hold enough liquid water to cover the entire planet to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometres — trapped in tiny cracks and pores in rock roughly 11.5 to 20 kilometres underground, far beyond anything we've ever been capable of drilling on Mars.
JWST's Ancient Galaxies size 
Space
James Webb Space Telescope finds 'hidden stars' making the universe's 1st galaxies much bigger than we knew
By Robert Lea
Universe Today
Whoa! The JWST's Ancient Galaxies Are Much More Massive Than Thought
By Evan Gough
Futura, le média qui explore le monde
A cosmic rule just broke—could this discovery rewrite how we count stars?
Nature
Hidden mass in early galaxies revealed by bottom-heavy initial mass functions
By Anna De Graaff, Robert Feldmann & Katherine A. Suess
Space Daily
Scientists reported phosphine in Venus's clouds in 2020, then watched the finding come under fierce attack. But years of follow-up observations have repeatedly recovered the signal with far more data, while no known non-biological process has yet been sho
By Lachlan Brown
Space
Try not to be hypnotized by the 'Eye of Africa' photo of the day for Aug. 20, 2026
By Chelsea Gohd
Hackaday
An Early History Of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real
By Al Williams
Space Daily
NASA scientists found the Moon's 18.6-year wobble will amplify ordinary high tides on U.S. coastlines starting in the mid-2030s — meaning some streets could start flooding on calm, sunny days for no visible reason
CT Insider
There's a hidden geological mystery taking shape beneath Connecticut
By Jordan Fenster
Space Daily
Cold War nuclear tests nearly doubled the carbon-14 in the atmosphere, leaving an isotopic timestamp inside cells born during those decades — and researchers later used that accidental fallout to answer a question anatomy had failed to settle: whether the a
Space Daily
The world banned CFCs and put the ozone layer on a path to recovery. Now thousands of dying satellites are introducing aluminium oxide nanoparticles into the upper atmosphere — particles scientists warn can catalyse the chlorine chemistry that destroys oz
Space Daily
The only spacecraft ever to directly sample Jupiter’s atmosphere was a single probe dropped into the planet in 1995. It transmitted for just 58 minutes before being destroyed — meaning our only in-situ measurements of Jupiter’s clouds come from one brief de
News-Medical
New brain wave theory explains cognition and consciousness
Medical Xpress
Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory
Science 2.0
Your Brain Is Still Analog
By Hank Campbell
Space Daily
Mars dirt looks deceptively ordinary, yet samples contain around 0.5% perchlorate salts that can disrupt the human thyroid — meaning the red dust astronauts track inside their habitat could be chemically toxic as well as annoyingly impossible to keep out.
Phys.org
Dark energy and quantum gravity may be deeply intertwined
By Sam Jarman
The Times of India
A strange wooden log found beneath Zambia’s Kalambo Falls was dismissed for decades, then archaeologists
The Guardian
Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?
By Alexandra Talty
Neanderthal pelvis of men and women 
Phys.org
Neanderthal hips challenge long-standing hypothesis of a trade-off between childbirth and bipedal walking
By Sanjukta Mondal
Popular Science
Male Neanderthal hips looked more like a human woman’s hips
By Andrew Paul
The Times of Israel
His pelvis was made for walking. Hers? Not so much, claims study of Neanderthal bones
By Zev Stub
Nautilus | Science
The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis
By Jake Currie
ScienceAlert
Scientists Directly Date 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Life For The First Time
By Michelle Starr
The Hindu
Indian rock yields oldest directly dated traces of microbial life: study
By jacob koshy
Inshorts
3.5-billion-year-old rock found in India may have oldest direct proof of life | Earth is about 4.5 billion years old | Inshorts
The Economic Times
Ancient microbes in our backyard
Opinion
Space Daily
In April 2026, scientists reported that Curiosity had detected the first nitrogen heterocycle on the Martian surface — a class of organic molecule that on Earth forms part of the chemical pathway toward RNA and DNA. It isn't evidence of life, but it shows that ancie
Sci.News
Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China
The Times of India
In 2021, NASA sent microscopic “Water Bears” to the space station; the nearly indestructible animals were
Silicon Canals
Psychology says the kindest people you will ever meet aren't naive or soft — they are often people who have experienced real pain in life and made a conscious choice not to pass it on to others

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