SKY NIGHTLYSPACE AND ASTRONOMY NEWS
Saturday, October 3, 2026
SkyNightly Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)

NASA picks surface geophysics mission to probe for cave beneath lunar pit

NASA has selected a proposal led by the Planetary Science Institute to find out whether a large underground cave extends beyond the opening of a lunar pit. A cave of that kind could one day shelter astronauts from the ra...

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SkyNightly Oct 01, 2026 (SPX)
Webb survey of extreme debris discs sorts planetary collisions by impact energy

Early in the history of the Solar System, a Mars-sized object called Theia struck the infant Earth, vapourising large amounts of r...

SkyNightly Oct 01, 2026 (SPX)
Methane-producing microbe grows in lab simulation of Enceladus ocean floor

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may be more supportive of life than previously thought. A study from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mu...

SkyNightly Oct 01, 2026 (SPX)
Astronauts show higher hip fracture rates after spaceflights longer than 90 days

New research has found that the rate of hip fractures in astronauts back on Earth was greater in the period after an astronaut had...

PolicyDaily Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
Israel targets top Hamas leader in deadly Gaza strike on anniversary

Israel said on Saturday that it attempted to kill Hamas's top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment that local ...

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SkyNightly EARLY EARTH Sep 30, 2026 (SPX)
Volatile element fingerprints suggest Earth and Mars were built by different processes

Four and a half billion years ago, Earth and Mars were born in the rotating cloud of gas and dust that would become the Solar System. Exactly how the planets formed remains one of ...

SkyNightly SATURNDAILY Sep 29, 2026 (SPX)
Slow freezing in Enceladus vents explains chemically varied ice grains seen by Cassini

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hides a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. From fractures near its south pole, material from this ocean is ejected into space as a plume of water ...

SkyNightly SPACE TRAVEL Sep 29, 2026 (SPX)
Four lunar orbiters could stop BeiDou constellation drift during autonomous navigation

Satellites that navigate by ranging to one another slowly lose their sense of direction, because nothing in a purely Earth-orbiting network provides a fixed reference in space. A n...

SkyNightly MILTECH Sep 28, 2026 (SPX)
HF radar proposed as a wide area sensor for US Navy operations in a changing Arctic

Rising temperatures and shrinking sea ice are opening Arctic waters to more shipping, and an Australian physicist argues that high-frequency (HF) radar could help navies and govern...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
Houthis say struck oil facility near Riyadh, as Saudis hit Sanaa

Yemen's Houthis claimed an attack on an oil facility near the Saudi capital on Saturday, where an AFP journalist saw flames and smoke, and accused the Gulf kingdom of striking Sana...

BatteryDaily MILITARY Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
AI needs safety layers like nuclear plants: ex-OpenAI engineer

Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of frantic calls to make AI safe, saying the industry must mimic the aviation or nuclear power sectors with their lay...

PolicyDaily Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
North Korea fires ballistic missile after Seoul's apology demand

North Korea fired a ballistic missile, Seoul's military said Saturday, days after demanding an apology for a b...

PolicyDaily Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
Oil tankers attacked in Hormuz strait: UK maritime agency

Two oil tankers have been struck by "unidentified projectiles" in the Strait of Hormuz region, a British marit...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Lula, Bolsonaro trade blows in final scramble for votes in Brazil

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and rival Flavio Bolsonaro are pulling no punches in a last-ditch effort t...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Battle in Yemen's Taiz kills scores of combatants: sources to AFP

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area near a waterway crucial to global energy flows, ki...