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Friday, October 2, 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)
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 se...

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...

RussoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
More on army, less on schools: What we know about Russia's 2027 budget

Russia plans to sharply increase defence spending, cut funding for education and raise taxes next year as costs mount in its war w...

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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 IRON AND ICE 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 took advantage of one such approach to collect mate...

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 EARLY EARTH Sep 22, 2026 (SPX)
Study Pinpoints When Early Earth Became Ready for Life's Chemistry

Conditions on the early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life around 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research co...

PolicyDaily ENVIRONMENT 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 to win voters ahead of Sunday's election in Brazil, where the US suspen...

PolicyDaily MILITARY 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, killing 80 combatants over the past day, sources on both sides told AFP ...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
CORRECTED: Detailed plan led to Hong Kong model murder, court hears

The ex-husband and in-laws of a Hong Kong influencer and model crafted an elaborate plan that ended with her m...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Taiwan receives its first US-made F-16V fighter jets

Taiwan received its first F-16V fighter jets made by the United States on Friday, as the island democracy upgr...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see t...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Rights group, US lawmakers condemn first Starbucks stores in China's Xinjiang

An advocacy group and US lawmakers criticised Starbucks for opening its first cafes in China's Xinjiang, where...