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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...

IndoDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Floods in India's Uttar Pradesh kill 81: new toll

The death toll from floods triggered by heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh rose to 81, the government's disa...

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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...

IndoDaily NATURALDISASTERS 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 to 10 people and left 30 missing, an aid group chairman told AFP.

RadarDaily MILSPACE COMMS Sep 28, 2026 (SPX)
New US government customer taps Ovzon 3 in 90 MSEK SATCOM order

A U.S. government customer new to Ovzon has placed a 12-month order for the company's satellite communications services, with service set to begin immediately. The order covers Ovz...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Trump offered to sell arms to Xi: US ambassador to Fox News

US President Donald Trump offered to sell arms to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in response to concern ov...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Radio frequencies vital to Earth observation must be protected: UN

Radio frequencies needed for weather forecasts, early warning systems, climate monitoring and water management...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iran supreme leader says US will be forced out of Middle East: state TV

Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Monday the United States would be forced to leave the Middle East ...

PolicyDaily Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
What we know about US sanctions on Iranian aviation

As the United States celebrates the success of its sanctions on Iran's aviation sector, Iran in turn boasts th...