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Here's Where You Want To Be To See The 2026 Solar Eclipse  EngadgetProtect your eyes while enjoying the spectacle of a total solar eclipse  CNNAugust’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland  AP NewsNASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse  NASA (.gov)Watch the eclipse in safety with these approved solar glasses  space.com

NASA opens its first wind tunnel in 40 years at Langley Research Center  WTOPNASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia  NASA (.gov)NASA’s newest wind tunnel in 40 years opens at Langley Research Center  WAVY.comNASA's Newest Wind Tunnel Opens At NASA Langley  Mirage NewsNew NASA wind tunnel to support lunar program  Island Social Trends

It was as heavy as 10 elephants, as long as a jumbo jet – and even T. rex wouldn't have dared attack it… This is the biggest land animal ever discovered  BBC Wildlife Magazine

Errant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of sound — NASA a...  YahooA discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon  AP NewsDrifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon  The GuardianA SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect  space.comFalcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules  iflscience.com

'Super-Earth' planet shows signs it could have an atmosphere  KSL.comSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News

A mystery virus started killing horses. Then humans. Was this the moment our coronavirus era began?  The Guardian

DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets  Phys.org

The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos  wired.comNASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects  NASA Science (.gov)A Distant Primordial Object May Be a Newborn Little Red Dot  Universe TodayJames Webb Space Telescope links Little Red Dots with globular clusters  Earth.comLittle Red Dots Are Dusty Black Holes in Overdrive, Webb Galaxy Study Finds  Tech Times

Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever — Space photo of the week  Live ScienceAndromeda’s star formation is slowing down  Astronomy MagazineNASA’s Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down  NASA Science (.gov)Milky Way's neighbour Andromeda Galaxy losing its ability to form new stars: Study | Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 mn light-yrs away | Inshorts  inshorts.comStar formation in Andromeda has been declining for half a billion years  Universe Space Tech

Celestron Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian review  space.com

Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA  Sci.NewsMysterious DNA: two unknown ancestors found in human genome  Euronews.comNot just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA  Ars TechnicaNew computational technique traces ghost ancestry in modern human genomes  News-MedicalScientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA  sciencedaily.com

Travelling at the speed of light is not just hard but impossible for anything that has mass, since it would take infinite energy, so the real question is how close we could get and whether the loopholes physicists talk about are more than mathematics  Space Daily

Don’t Miss Aug. 12 Solar Eclipse And Perseid Peak  ForbesEyes to the Skies: August features partial eclipses of the sun and moon  WTOPMark your calendars: Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years  Live Science9 night sky events to see in August, from a total solar eclipse to the return of the northern lights  National GeographicNight sky August 2026 — What you can see tonight  space.com

A 2021 estimate suggested that about 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived, while only 32 relatively well-preserved post-juvenile specimens were then held in public museums — roughly one for every 80 million animals. And T. rex is one of the better represente  Space Daily

Beneath Michigan, ancient rock and water teem with fungi, 'water bears,' and tiny worms  YahooA vast world of rock-eating fungi lurks deep underneath the Great Lakes  Popular ScienceAn entire world of fungi nearly a third of a mile underground could affect carbon storage estimates  Phys.orgThe Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi  GizmodoUnderground fungi may affect the future of carbon capture and storage  Earth.com

Mars has such thin air that around noon near the equator, sunlit ground beneath your boots could reach 24 degrees Celsius while the air around your head remained below freezing — allowing one standing person to span temperatures resembling spring and  Space DailyLaying odds on the potential for Martian water near future landing zones  Phys.orgHematite Hidden for Decades in Spirit’s Archive Rewrites Mars Water History  Tech TimesAPOD: 1998 February 05 - A Martian River Bed  NASA Science (.gov)Current Water Trapping Micro-habitats On The Surface Of Mars  astrobiology.com

Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’  Good News NetworkNASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures  NASA (.gov)'It took our breath away' – Mars rover finds strange polygon features in the Red Planet's rusty dirt  BBC Sky at Night MagazineNASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Honeycomb-Like Patterns on Mars: ‘Took Our Breath Away’  People.comCuriosity Finds "Sea Of Polygons" On Mars. But Photos Of The Rover Itself Show Its Back Wheel Isn't In Great Shape  iflscience.com

“It’s cloned itself to reach a whopping size of 77 square miles.” 6 biggest organisms on the planet including the Humongous Fungus  BBC Wildlife Magazine

Ganymede is a moon, yet it is larger than the planet Mercury, may contain more water than exists on Earth's surface, and even generates its own magnetic field, making it less like a conventional moon than a full-sized world that happens to orbit Jupiter.  Space Daily

The State Parks With Dinosaur Tracks  worldatlas.com