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SpaceX rocket component to crash into the moon at 5,400 mph 
ABC7 Los Angeles
Discarded SpaceX rocket is on high-speed collision course with the moon
By Marcia Dunn
nbcnews.com
A defunct SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon
By Denise Chow
The Guardian
Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
space.com
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect
By Leonard David
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NDTV
A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report
By Siddhi Singh
The New York Times
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
By Selam Gebrekidan
Newser
Unpredictable Space Junk Defies Safety Regulators
By Bob Cronin
Sun Sentinel
Selam Gebrekidan
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Total solar eclipse to occur on August 12 
WTOP
Eyes to the Skies: August features partial eclipses of the sun and moon
By Greg Redfern
National Geographic
9 night sky events to see in August, from a total solar eclipse to the return of the northern lights
By Stephanie Vermillion
Live Science
Mark your calendars: Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years
By Jamie Carter
popsci.com
August stargazing: A planet parade, two eclipses, and one scary star
By Tom Hawking
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch 
Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
By Will Robinson-Smith
space.com
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (photos)
By Mike Wall
Ventura County Star
SpaceX plans late-night California rocket launch. Here's where to watch
By Eric Lagatta
NASA Science (.gov)
APOD: 2021 April 24 - Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew2 Launch
By Robert J. Nemiroff & Jerry T. Bonnell
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CNN
A rocky exoplanet may be a formidable candidate for extraterrestrial life
By Jacopo Prisco
Total solar eclipse to occur on August 12 
AP News
August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland
By Marcia Dunn
CNN
Protect your eyes while enjoying the spectacle of a total solar eclipse
By Ashley Strickland
NASA (.gov)
NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse
Sky & Telescope
Rare Total Solar Eclipse-Perseid Meteor Shower Double-Header August 12th
By Bob P. King
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Update for NASA's Swift spacecraft 
Ars Technica
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
By Stephen Clark
NASA Science (.gov)
Efforts Continue to Stabilize LINK Spacecraft for NASA’s Swift Boost
By Alise Fisher
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Mission to rescue space telescope may be in jeopardy
By Matthew Glasser
AP News
Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble
By Marcia Dunn
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Asteroid Apophis to pass safely close to Earth in 2029 
Space Daily
Asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth on 13 April 2029 than many weather satellites do — roughly 32,000 kilometres from the surface — and up to 90% of the world's population may see it with the naked eye
Yahoo
Spacecraft will swarm asteroid Apophis during fateful 2029 Earth flyby
By Andrew Jones
HuffPost UK
An Asteroid The Size Of The Empire State Building Is Set To Pass Close To Earth
By Natasha Hinde
Zamin.uz
Billions of People Will See Apophis Asteroid with the Naked Eye in 2029
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds honeycomb textures on Mars 
Yahoo News Canada
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Honeycomb-Like Patterns on Mars: ‘Took Our Breath Away’
By Paloma Chavez
NASA (.gov)
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures
NewsNation
Mars rover discovers honeycomb-like fields on Red Planet
popsci.com
Curiosity rover spots ancient sea of Martian polygons
By Andrew Paul
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Researchers identify gene controlling avocado flower schedules 
SFGATE
Groundbreaking discovery could remake California's avocado breeding
By Anna Fitzgerald Guth
UC Davis
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
By Liana F. Wait
Yahoo
California scientists find avocado gene that reveals flower type years before trees bloom
EurekAlert!
Jeffrey Groh in greenhouse (IMAGE)
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SpaceNews
Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion
By Jeff Foust
The New York Times
The Jumping Spiders of TikTok
By Alexandra Alter
Phys.org
Cretaceous beetle fossil reveals early evolution of firefly sensory and signaling systems
By Nannan Zhang
NASA and Boeing continue working to schedule next Starliner flight 
Gizmodo
Boeing Claims Its Beleaguered Starliner Spacecraft Is Pretty Much Good to Go
By Passant Rabie
Ars Technica
Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
By Eric Berger
SpaceNews
NASA still assessing Starliner-1 flight opportunities
By Jeff Foust
Tech Times
Boeing Starliner Cargo Flight Slips to Q4 With ISS Slots Narrowing Before Deorbit
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DNA discovery of woolly mammoth 
Reuters
Study shows prehistoric people targeted female mammoths
By Will Dunham
Smithsonian Magazine
Ice Age Humans Mostly Killed Female Woolly Mammoths, Suggests Ancient DNA
By Sara Hashemi
popsci.com
Ice Age humans preferred hunting female woolly mammoths
By Laura Baisas
New Scientist
Woolly mammoths butchered by humans were mostly female
By Christa Leste-lasserre
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Astronomers discover companion star orbiting Betelgeuse 
Universe Today
It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse's Companion
By Carolyn Collins Petersen
Reuters
Astronomers observe companion star orbiting stellar giant Betelgeuse
By Will Dunham
Sky & Telescope
New Images Confirm: Betelgeuse Has a Companion
By Colin Stuart
space.com
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star's elusive companion
By Robert Lea
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space.com
Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have caused firestorms 17 times hotter than the thermal limit lethal to humans
By Stefanie Waldek
Smithsonian Magazine
The Dino-Killing Asteroid Strike May Have Transformed Our Planet Into a Hellish Inferno, Charbroiling Most Creatures Within Hours
By Sarah Kuta
popsci.com
Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests
By Andrew Paul
Sci.News
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Didn’t Just Strike Earth, Its Dust Cloud Cooked It
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Space Daily
Houston spent nearly 3 billion dollars widening a single freeway to 26 lanes to kill its traffic — and within three years the drive was taking up to 51 per cent longer, proof of a rule planners keep relearning the hard way: you can't build your way out of a traffic jam
By Daniel Keys Moran
Scientists discover new alloy in Hiroshima atomic blast debris 
New York Post
Hiroshima atomic bomb created never-before-seen metal on Earth
By Ben Cost
Scientific American
Bizarre new material discovered in Hiroshima bombing debris
By Sarah Lewin Frasier & Andrea Thompson
ZME Science
The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Never Seen on Earth From Vaporized Buildings and Metal
By Tibi Puiu
Gizmodo
Physicists Discover Previously Unknown Substance Born From Hiroshima Atomic Bombing
By Gayoung Lee
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Study identifies DNA from unknown human ancestors 
Euronews.com
Mysterious DNA: two unknown ancestors found in human genome
By Nela Heidner
Phys.org
New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors
Ars Technica
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
By John Timmer
The Telegraph
Humans carry DNA from mysterious ancestors
By Sarah Knapton
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Phys.org
New photonic platform offers a four-lane highway for light
By Sam Jarman
Saturn's moon Titan 
Space Daily
Saturn's moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile's tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan's don't
The Times of India
Titan experiences clouds, rain, rivers and changing seasons like Earth; Saturn’s 29-year journey around the Sun makes each season last more than seven Earth years
NASA Science (.gov)
APOD: 2005 January 14 - Descent to Titan
By Jerry T. Bonnell & Robert J. Nemiroff
19FortyFive
Saturn's moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it
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Phys.org
Less-explored form of quantum code could be more powerful—and more stable—than its alternative in error correction
By Paul Dailing
ScienceDaily
Superheated magma may power towering lava fountains
Space Daily
Europa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter's gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist
Sci.News
Europa’s Ice Shell May Be Tougher Barrier than Planetary Scientists Hoped
SciTechDaily
Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall
By Kitta MacPherson, M.F.A.
Space Daily
At least six moons in our solar system are thought to hide oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces — and the list may keep growing as old spacecraft data, improved models and new missions reveal oceans in increasingly unexpected places
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The Times of India
Tiny reef fish flourished beside islands filled with seabirds; where rats removed the birds, the entire u
Carbon from the air into graphite 
Interesting Engineering
932°F molten salt process turns thin air into solid graphite for EV battery components
By Aman Tripathi
Phys.org
Waste CO₂ converts into graphite through a newly observed two-step process
By Lauren Biron
einnews.com
Pulling Graphite Out of Thin Air
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Phys.org
Japan probe made closest-ever asteroid flyby: space agency
Phys.org
Astronomers finally measure the full size of the largest known galaxy
By Shreejaya Karantha
The Debrief
New Observations Reveal the Staggering Scale of the Universe’s Largest Galaxy
By Ryan Whalen
iflscience.com
The Largest Galaxy In The Universe Is Even Bigger Than We Thought… And It Hasn't Finished Growing
By Alfredo Carpineti & Dr Alfredo Carpineti
Phys.org
Best of 2026-08-01
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Business Insider
We thought a small town outside the suburbs would be perfect for our family — but ended up in a walkable city instead
ScienceDaily
Scientists left water inside a battery and nearly doubled its power
Eurasia Review
The Arctic Ocean Keeps Permafrost Carbon Firmly Locked
WIRED
Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
By Ritsuko Kawai
en.softonic.com
CD-35 2722 B may have an exomoon: one of the strongest signals yet
By Chema Carvajal Sarabia
Techno-Science
🌙 This object could be the first satellite discovered outside the Solar System
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Phys.org
First AI-driven telescope goes stargazing
By Amanda Morris
Cyclops eye origin 
ScienceAlert
The Strange Origin of The Human Eye May Trace Back to a 600-Million-Year-Old 'Cyclops'
By Esra Oz
ZME Science
Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed ‘Cyclops’
By Tibi Puiu
The Economic Times
Humans have a 'third eye' in the brain: Study links it to a 600-million-year-old Cyclops ancestor
thereport.live
Scientists trace origin of human eyes to ancient ‍‍`Cyclops-like‍‍` ancestor
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Monkeys' friendship with other species 
Defector
Can A Monkey Have A Pet?
By Sabrina Imbler
popsci.com
Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
By Andrew Paul
Phys.org
Monkey friendships with dogs, deer and even pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping
By Robert Egan
iflscience.com
Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Much
By Rachael Funnell
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BBC Wildlife Magazine
Submersible stumbles upon prehistoric animal 365m deep in Pacific darkness
By Melissa Hobson
Space Daily
The Velociraptor stalking the kitchen in Jurassic Park was nearly two metres tall and scaly. The real animal barely reached your knee — about 15 kilos, roughly turkey-sized, and covered in feathers, with the quill anchor points still visible on a fossil forearm
The Dodo
White Blob Swims By Snorkeler — Then It Starts Glowing Rainbow Before Her Eyes
By Alana Francis-crow
Gizmodo
Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
By Matthew Phelan
Space Daily
For nearly a century, absinthe was banned across the Western world as a hallucinogen that drove artists to madness — then chemists tested the old pre-ban bottles and found nothing special at all, no secret in the wormwood, just an unusually strong liquor that
Phys.org
Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships
By Ingrid Fadelli
SciTechDaily
Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years
Ars Technica
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
By Jacek Krywko
The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
Long-duration M1.9 flare produces Earth-directed CME, G1-G2 geomagnetic storm conditions forecast for August 2
By Teo Blaskovic
First photonic time crystal controls terahertz light 
ScienceDaily
World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control
Phys.org
Photonic time crystals unlock ultrafast control of light in the terahertz range
By Sadie Harley & Robert Egan
Nature
Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal
By Yannis Laplace, Javier Briatico & Jules Sueiro
The Debrief
The First Temporal Photonic Crystal Advances Light into a New Dimension
By Ryan Whalen
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Slate
My In-Laws Love Spoiling My Kids. But Their Latest Splurge Went Way Too Far.
By Jamilah Lemieux
Phys.org
A new genetic tool helps researchers uncover the logic of gene regulation
By Shreya Ghosh
Space Daily
Huygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini's instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were los
The Times of India
The Amazon’s zombie fungus manipulates ants into biting plants before death; scientists have now found it
Benin researchers locate healthy coral reef using drones 
ScienceAlert
Good News, at Last: Coral Reefs Presumed Dead Have Been Found Teeming With Life
By Starre Vartan
Le Monde.fr
How Benin's only coral reef was rediscovered
SciTechDaily
Underwater Drones Find “Dead” Coral Reefs Teeming With Life
Yahoo
Underwater drones find Benin coral reef long presumed dead, and it's teeming with life
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Big Think
Ask Ethan: What would "first life" see in their night sky?
By Ethan Siegel
Space Daily
The James Webb telescope keeps finding supermassive black holes in the infant universe so large that a few appear to outweigh every star in their host galaxy combined, a ratio the standard picture of how these giants grew cannot easily explain
Earth.com
Oak trees may have an unexpected advantage as CO2 rises
By Eric Ralls
BBC Wildlife Magazine
It’s larger than Greater London and lies in the crater of an asteroid that struck Earth 214 million years ago… Now it’s home to black bears
By Will Newton
Metro.co.uk
Man stumbles on meteor crater planning camping trip on Google Maps
By Josh Milton
Newser
This Could Be the First Meteor Crater Found by an Amateur
By Arden Dier
Moneycontrol.com
This 350-million-year-old meteorite crater stayed hidden for ages in Canada—until Google maps...
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Phys.org
Ancient Irish volcano offers new clues about the development of its modern-day, active 'brothers and sisters'
The Star
China team unearths world’s oldest amber, hidden in ancient Xinjiang coal seam
Sun's abundance of silver 
ScienceAlert
Scientists May Have Finally Solved The Sun's Missing Silver Mystery
By David Nield
Techno-Science
☀️ The Sun contains 55% more silver than previously thought
ThePrint
Scientists find more silver in the sun. It gives a clue about cosmic events
By Janaki Pande
ScienceABC
Why Does The Sun Contain 55% More Silver Than Scientists Thought?
By Abhishek Jain
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BBC Wildlife Magazine
It looked like a fox, but this is no fox – or even a member of the dog family. It was in fact a bizarre stepping stone in the evolution of whales – yes really!
By Will Newton
Avi Loeb – Medium
The Risk of False-Negatives: Is Elon Musk the Most Accomplished Space Entrepreneur Since the Big…
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