The September 2026 full moon peaks at 12:49 p.m. EDT on the 26th, offering a classic Harvest Moon view, cultural celebrations and nearby planets for stargazers.
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A near‑total lunar eclipse will darken the Moon for most of North and South America on Thursday, with peak coverage of 96.2% at 12:12 a.m. ET.
NASA has reactivated two of Swift's three science instruments after a months‑long low‑drag mode, even as the planned orbital boost by the LINK spacecraft was abandoned.
CERN researchers have produced quark‑gluon plasma using collisions of light oxygen‑16 and neon‑20 nuclei, demonstrating that the primordial state can be created in much smaller “little big bangs.”
Twenty years after the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of planetary status, scientists and the public remain divided over whether the decision was a mistake.
President Trump phoned a NASA briefing on Aug. 30 to commend the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a mission he previously sought to cancel.
A thought experiment shows that if the Sun disappeared instantly, Earth would lose direct sunlight after about 8 minutes 19 seconds, while a hypothetical sound‑speed signal would need roughly 13.8 years to arrive.
China’s Chang’e‑7 lunar probe, aimed at detecting water ice at the Moon’s south pole, has been postponed beyond its 2024 launch window, citing launch conditions and weather.
NASA confirmed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is “go” for launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 30, targeting the Sun‑Earth L2 point.
A private rescue attempt for the Swift observatory failed, leaving the aging spacecraft to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re‑entry sometime after October.