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Walking shark discovered in Papua New Guinea
12+ hour, 1+ min ago (1066+ words) Support science … support wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something big. Shark Week 2026 prepares to kick off on July 26, 2026. And, meanwhile, marine scientists have unveiled an exciting shark discovery. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)…...
Are we listening for alien intelligence the wrong way?
12+ hour, 42+ min ago (549+ words) Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter. Join our 2026 Donation Campaign today. In the movie Contact, Jodie Foster’s character – the astronomer Ellie Arroway – sits by a row of radio telescopes, listening through headphones for signals from alien intelligence. This scene has…...
Asteroid Juno at its best now, around opposition
12+ hour, 24+ min ago (474+ words) U.K. astronomer Guy Ottewell published Juno in Aquarius on his website on July 24, 2026. Edits by EarthSky. Reprinted here with permission. Thank you, Guy! The large asteroid 3 Juno will be at opposition – when it’ll lie opposite the sun as viewed from Earth…...
Wildfires in Spain and France: 200,000 forced to flee
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (518+ words) Some 141,000 fled homes in the Gironde and Landes departments in France, the French interior ministry said. In central Spain, 60,000 were forced from their homes, according to the Spanish interior ministry. Dozens of French firefighters were injured, authorities said, but no…...
Oldest Mars meteorite reveals Mars lost its water early
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (785+ words) We’ve never needed good science more than we do right now. Support EarthSky in 2026 and help us keep it going strong. Many pieces of Martian material have been ejected from the red planet and reached Earth as meteorites. And one…...
Should the far side of the moon be reserved for science?
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (934+ words) The Royal Astronomical Society shared this press release on July 22, 2026. Edits by EarthSky. EarthSky isn’t powered by billionaires. We’re powered by you. Support EarthSky’s 2026 Donation Campaign and help keep science accessible. What we do on the moon now will set…...
Have we found the first exomoon … around a brown dwarf?
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (724+ words) Astronomers have discovered an object orbiting a brown dwarf or “failed star”. Is it the first exomoon, or moon outside our solar system? Astronomers are debating what to call it. Why? Because moons orbit planets … And this exomoon is orbiting…...
Our galaxy flipped after a collision, say astronomers
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (644+ words) Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter. Join our 2026 Donation Campaign today. Astronomers think that some 10 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy collided with another galaxy, which they’ve dubbed the Gaia Sausage. And on July 21, 2026, a team of astronomers at…...
1st atmosphere detected on Earth-like, habitable-zone world
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (874+ words) Millions come to EarthSky for night sky news and trusted science. Your donations keep us free and accessible for all. For the first time, astronomers have found strong evidence for an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone…...
Large Hadron Collider upgrade could demystify Higgs boson
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (790+ words) By Daniela Bortoletto, University of Oxford. Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing proton particles together at nearly the speed of light, Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations…...