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Discover the science behind one of nature's most extraordinary phenomena and experience a total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA)…
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Weekly digests · 20 Jul – 26 Jul 2026
32 stories that week, most of them about the solar system, the sun & space weather, galaxies & cosmology.

Discover the science behind one of nature's most extraordinary phenomena and experience a total solar eclipse with the European Space Agency (ESA)…

Video: 00:19:14 The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop…

Image: The European Space Agency’s terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside the Maxwell Test Chamber…

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35…

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.
Press Release N° 35–2026 Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the media programme at Europe's Spaceport in French…
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Hydrocarbons keep turning up in surprising places. This time, they've been found near a pair of accreting supermassive…
Hanya Pan et al 2026 ApJ 1001 89 Researchers show a connection between non-thermal hard X-ray emission and…
The galaxies FCC 224 and FCC 240 appear to be a rare example of a dark-matter-poor, globular-cluster-rich pair…
A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity…
Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone.
How did neon end up inside Earth's mantle, and what does that tell us about how our planet…
Image: ExoMars ramps put up with cold, shaking and vacuum
Astrobites reports on whether we'd even know what we were looking at if our familiar red neighbor were…
A new theoretical study offers a possible explanation for how the Universe can grow more complex without violating…
China’s Chang’e-6 samples have uncovered a surprising difference between the Moon’s two hemispheres.
Chali Idosa Uga et al 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 126 Researchers show that the global martian dust…
One of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy is how the Universe managed to grow enormous black holes…
Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light…
Brian P. Powell et al 2026 AJ 172 14 Unlike traditional “shift and stack” algorithms, a newly developed…
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within.
Hideyo Kawakita et al 2026 ApJL 1000 L60 Spectra of 3I/ATLAS as it retreated from its encounter with…
A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a…
Cross calibration combines data from 25 satellites
NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with an unusually ambitious orbital rehearsal.
See Mars from Viking 1 and Psyche, or with your own two eyes.
In a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in…
A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated.
Wen-Fan Feng et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L35 According to calculations, in a 4-year period researchers may detect…
China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter captured a faint but remarkable view of 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar comet raced past Mars.