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Monday, September 28, 2026
SkyNightly 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 governments keep watch over the region as acti...

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SkyNightly Sep 24, 2026 (SPX)
JWST Finds Early Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Universe with Heavy Elements

When the universe was only 500 million years old, about 3 percent of its current age, some of its earliest stars and galaxies had ...

SkyNightly Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
New Trajectory Design Cuts Fuel Costs for Retrograde Geosynchronous Satellites

The retrograde geosynchronous orbit, known as RGSO, offers unique advantages for space surveillance and space situational awarenes...

SkyNightly Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
ETH Zurich Solves Mystery of Asteroid Bennu's Origin

The asteroid Bennu orbits the Sun once every 1.2 years and passes within about 300,000 kilometres of Earth every six years. NASA t...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iran top diplomat to meet Qatari mediator in New York

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was set to meet on Monday with Qatari mediators in New York, Iranian state media said, afte...

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SkyNightly SPACE TRAVEL Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
NYU Study Reveals Gravity's Subtle Effects on the Human Genome

The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics, and eventually produced a full sequence of the human genome. Yet the physical rules...

SkyNightly SKYNIGHTLY Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
Duke Quantum Simulator Recreates Matter Formation from the Early Universe

A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first ...

SkyNightly MOON Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
ETH Zurich Study Points to Strong Ancient Magnetic Field on the Moon

Unlike the Earth, the Moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field today. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global magnetic field, a me...

SkyNightly SOLAR Sep 22, 2026 (SPX)
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart, Research Center Juelich, and Solarzentrum Stuttgart have demonstrated that commercially available cameras, with minor hardware modificat...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iranians face arduous journeys as US sanctions ground planes

Flying out of Iran has long required patience in the face of restrictions and delays, but new US sanctions have grounded flights at short notice and left war-weary travellers feeli...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Israel security agency files complaint over report Netanyahu visited UAE

Israel's domestic security service filed a complaint against a TV channel that reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UAE, his office said Monday, the government's ...

DarwinDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
What is at stake in Brazil's elections?

A deeply polarized Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday to choose between two starkly different visions for the...

DisasterDay Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Myanmar rescuers fear 10 dead in cut-off flood zone

Rescuers were battling on Monday to access areas of southern Myanmar where they fear floods may have killed up...

DisasterDay Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
'Struggling to eat': Survivors suffer after Indonesia quake

Sahria Lelu and her family were still living in a tent outside a mosque six weeks after a powerful earthquake ...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Lebanon PM pushes for further implementation of Israel deal in Rubio meeting

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Monday called for the further implementation of a framework agreement w...