
Replay of the online media briefing on the total solar eclipse
Video: 00:57:42 ESA experts explain the science of eclipses, including visibility and key opportunities for scientific observation.
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Weekly digests · 13 Jul – 19 Jul 2026
42 stories that week, most of them about the solar system, telescopes & instruments, crewed spaceflight.

Video: 00:57:42 ESA experts explain the science of eclipses, including visibility and key opportunities for scientific observation.

Yesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA’s technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service…
The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades.

Image: Mars Express image

When a powerful solar flare saturates a detector, the information about the flare is lost — or is it? New research validates…

A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris.
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A recent study used the kinematics, chemical composition, and ages of thousands of stars to determine when the…
Astrobites reports on why dry planets may be missing the critical thermostat of the geologic carbon cycle, which…
With liftoff scheduled for September, excitement is building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana as two cutting-edge Earth…
Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed.
K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an…
A. N. Ortiz Capeles et al 2026 ApJ 1003 65 Using data from JWST, the Subaru Telescope, and…
NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver laser communications capabilities for next year’s Artemis III mission, enabling the agency…
It is full steam ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as teams process and assemble flight…
The 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures a vibrant scene, filled with swirls and stars…
Gourav Kumawat et al 2026 AJ 171 306 Analysis of blue straggler stars in 56 Milky Way globular…
Diala M. Taneenah et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L11 Researchers have discovered two chemically distinct populations in a…
Scientists have developed a new framework that could finally apply the laws of thermodynamics to real, ever-changing black…
JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC…
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon…
Seven members of the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) team of the U.S.
White dwarfs with metals in their spectra preserve a record of planets that once orbited them.
NASA’s next flagship orbital observatory will reshape what we know about planets throughout the galaxy.
Region near the "surface of no return" was previously only accessible with theoretical models
A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, potentially masking ancient…
Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions.
NASA's PACE satellite captured the Black Sea glowing turquoise during its annual phytoplankton bloom.
NASA has chosen 41 commercial technology projects that could solve critical challenges for future missions to the Moon…
Scientists say new technologies have reopened the debate over whether Mars could someday be terraformed, turning a once…
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region…