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Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse

> On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse swept across Europe, with Spain experiencing a total eclipse and the UK seeing over 95% of the Sun obscured in Cornwall. This mark...

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Solar eclipse live: Time to look up! Partial view begins for many Americans

> The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse is underway, with millions of Americans across the continental U.S. now experiencing a partial view of the celestial event. This is the first total solar ecli...

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Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates

> The total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 is the most-watched celestial event of the decade, with its path of totality sweeping across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. Live coverage from Space.com is...

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What to watch for during Wednesday’s total solar eclipse

> The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse will plunge a 160-mile-wide corridor across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain into darkness for up to 2 minutes and 18 seconds. It is the first total ...

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Huge ‘space jellyfish’ to light up California skies tonight — and the free tool to check if you can see it

> A massive "space jellyfish" — the glowing plasma trail of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — will be visible across California skies tonight, Tuesday, August 11, 2026. A free online tool from the European S...

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The best places to spot the Perseid meteor shower in Colorado

> Colorado's high elevation, dry air, and vast dark-sky zones make it one of the premier locations in the continental U.S. to view the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks the night of August 12–13, 202...

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Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 1 day to totality

> The total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain, with totality lasting up to 4 minutes and 27 seconds in the best viewing locations. This is the f...

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A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from

> A 300,000-year-old Martian meteorite discovered in Oman has completed the most extraordinary round trip in planetary science: after being blasted off Mars by an asteroid impact, it fell to Earth, wa...

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In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost per

> A 2017 solar eclipse viewer who looked at the sun for only a handful of seconds without protection suffered permanent retinal damage, with doctors later finding the exact crescent shape of the eclip...

SpaceX scrubs planned Monday launch of its Falcon 9 rocket; targets Tuesday morning

> SpaceX called off Monday's planned Falcon 9 launch of the Starlink 6-61 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, citing unspecified issues that forced a 24-hour delay. The company is now tar...

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Space mirrors could ruin astronomy — and your eyes

> The FCC has approved Reflect Orbital's test of mirror-equipped satellites designed to beam sunlight to Earth for solar power — a technology that, if scaled to tens of thousands of units, would make ...

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Europe faces rocket launcher shortage by 2030, space agency chief warns

> Europe is on track to face a rocket launcher shortage by 2030, as commercial demand for satellite launches is growing faster than the region's current and planned capabilities. The European Space Ag...

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Titan is never the same distance from Earth twice: the gap can run from about 1.2 billion kilometres to nearly 1.65 billion depending on where both worlds sit in their orbits, stretching a signal's one-way trip from just over an hour to past ninety minutes

> The distance between Earth and Saturn's moon Titan shifts by nearly half a billion kilometres over the course of their orbits, stretching a radio signal's one-way travel time from roughly 67 minutes...

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Cosmic filaments help set first limits on dark matter's decay into gravitons

> A team led by David Dunsky of New York University has proposed a new method to detect dark matter decay into gravitons by observing cosmic filaments — the vast, thread-like structures of dark matter...

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2026 August 9 – Contemplating the Sun

> On August 9, 2026, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) features a striking solar image, continuing a 31-year tradition of daily space science education. This particular entry matters because ...

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What it's like to chase solar eclipses around the world

> A small but devoted community of "eclipse chasers" treats total solar eclipses not as a once-in-a-lifetime bucket-list item, but as a repeatable, deeply engineered passion — one that requires precis...

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SpaceX West Coast launch surge continues with Starlink mission

> SpaceX has now completed 50 Falcon 9 launches from California in 2026 — a record cadence that underscores the company's transformation of Vandenberg Space Force Base into a high-volume orbital workh...

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540-million-year-old poop ‘revolution’ may be the source of life as we know it: ‘Often overlooked’

> Fossilised faecal matter from 540 million years ago may have triggered the "Cambrian Explosion" — the sudden diversification of complex life on Earth — by recycling nutrients in the ocean that allow...

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Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 4 days to totality

> With four days until the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, the event is on track to be the most-viewed eclipse in European history, with a path of totality crossing Greenland, Iceland, and Spa...

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