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Sunday, October 4, 2026
SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)

Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near

Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardware, but NASA technology planners still rank dust mitigation as a critical gap for crews, sp...

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SkyNightly Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Nearby habitable-zone planets probably host microbes, not advanced life, study estimates

Science fiction tends to assume that life on other planets, if it exists, is far more advanced than life on Earth. A new study sug...

SkyNightly Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Four thorium-229 sites mapped in calcium fluoride crystals for nuclear clock design

Precise clocks underpin technologies from satellite navigation to synchronized communication, and thorium-229 is a leading candida...

SkyNightly Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
BlackSky imagery to feed SkyFi satellite analytics app for Robinhood retail investors

BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) is the first satellite imagery provider for SkyFi's Satellite Intelligence, a Robinhood Agen...

OilGasDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Four decades of development stand behind Iran drone industry

The drones Iran has launched in the thousands at Gulf states and US bases since the Middle East war began on February 28, 2026 com...

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SinoDaily Silicone rubber composite seals in tritium and blocks radiation for fusion plants Prussian blue framework steadies perovskite solar cells from lab cells to 30 cm submodules Printed wallpaper harvests indoor humidity to power small electronics
DarwinDaily Sea-level records point to rapid polar wander episodes in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Mongolian microfossils push possible origin of animals back by 200 million years Brazil braces for results of election battle between Lula and Bolsonaro
BeyondLEO Orbiter tracking data expose hot region in mantle beneath southern Mars Momentus tracks NASA CubeSat with low-cost LiDAR and camera suite in orbital proximity test EarthTraq satellite cluster pinpoints ground radio source to within tens of meters
SolarCell Magenta semi-transparent solar panels let broccoli reach full size in Swedish field trial Biomass aerogel modeled on fish gills keeps solar evaporators free of salt Balloon-borne Sunrise-III finds thread-like magnetic structures above the quiet Sun
BatteryDaily Lignin gel made from paper mill black liquor generates power from waste heat and sunlight Russian drone hits Kyiv nuclear institute grounds, reactor undamaged Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants
PolicyDaily L3Harris wins seven-year order worth over $6 billion to expand THAAD propulsion output Army chief says Israel must draw lessons from Oct 7 'failures' Iran tells US there is no military solution to Middle East war
DisasterDay Chiba typhoon losses reach 2.6 billion yen as next disaster threatens to outpace recovery CORRECTED: Five quakes rattle south Turkey, no injuries Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete
NanoDaily 3D printed cement supercapacitor stores energy while matching concrete strength Quantum Decoherence Can Lock Cosmological Fields Into False Vacuums Michigan State University Gets 20 Million Dollars to Build Diamond Semiconductor Facility for Space Applications
ForestDaily Brazil's Indigenous back Lula as El Nino fuels forest fires Forest fire threatens tourist town in Colombian Andes Three injured in wildfire on Spain's Costa del Sol
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SkyNightly MOON 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 coul...

SkyNightly EARTH OBSERVATION Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)
HotSat-3 reaches orbit to give SatVu daily thermal imaging coverage

SatVu, the British thermal intelligence company, has announced the launch of HotSat-3 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Californi...

SkyNightly PHYSICS NEWS Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)
Geomagnetic field explains east-west bias in muon telescope thunderstorm detections

An instrument built to study cosmic rays has proved to be a useful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier observations with the GRAPES-3 muon telescope showed that thundercl...

SkyNightly STELLAR CHEMISTRY Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)
CHARA Array survey finds stars dim toward their edges more than models predict

Astronomers using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have found that nearby stars darken toward their edges more strongly at near...

SolarCell FROTH AND BUBBLE Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Solar-activated catalyst in bin lid breaks down odors from rotting food waste

Garbage left outdoors begins to smell quickly, particularly in warm, humid climates that speed up food decay. Writing in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science...

NanoDaily MICROSAT BLITZ Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Singapore university satellite CRIMSON-1 reaches orbit to trial perovskite solar cells and onboard AI

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has launched a satellite carrying locally developed perovskite solar cells for testing in space, along with artificial i...

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Space & Science
Methane-producing microbe grows in lab simulation of Enceladus ocean floor
SkyNightly
Silicon Solar Cells Could Cut Satellite Power Costs by Up to 90 Percent
NanoDaily
Sateliot adds five Alen Space CubeSats to 5G IoT constellation on Transporter-18
BeyondLEO
Volatile element fingerprints suggest Earth and Mars were built by different processes
SkyNightly
Modi pitches India as global chipmaking hub
NanoDaily
Earth & Energy
Tanker damaged after attack in Hormuz: maritime agency
OilGasDaily
Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres
SeedDaily
US miner KoBold bets on AI to gain edge in DR Congo mineral hunt
AfricaDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
SolarCell
Flexible Composite Shields Fusion Reactors From Radiation While Sealing Tritium
BatteryDaily
Tech & Industry
Iranian oil minister quits, replaced by oil executive: presidency
PolicyDaily
Spy chief Clayton, the Trump loyalist tech bosses trust on AI
RoboDaily
Moldova summons Russia envoy over drone, missile incursions
RussoDaily
Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports
DisasterDay
Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs
FiscalDaily
Wire Feed
PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Yemen presidency announces military drive to retake all Houthi territory

Yemen's leader announced on Sunday the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the H...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Iran airlines resume flights to Iraqi holy city after US exemption

Iranian airlines resumed flights to Iraq's Najaf on Sunday after the United States granted Baghdad an exemptio...

DarwinDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Brazil votes in nail-biter polls closely watched by Trump

Brazilians started voting Sunday in a knife-edge race between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio B...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Houthis target Aramco sites in Saudi capital, Khurais area: statement

Yemen's Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree on Sunday said the group launched a ballistic missile and drone ...