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Want to see a solar eclipse and a meteor shower in one day? US astronomer reveals all you should know to enjoy the stargazing event of the year - BBC Sky at Night MagazineBBC Sky at Night Magazine · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:43:35 GMTIn 1970, Soviet engineers landed a bathtub-sized rover called Lunokhod 1 on the Sea of Rains, drove it 10.5 kilometres across the lunar surface over 322 Earth days, then lost contact and forgot where they parked it — until a NASA laser-ranging team pinpoint - ScienceBlog.comScienceBlog.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:53:37 GMTEverest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, but a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo beats it by more than 2,000 metres when measured from the planet's centre — because the Earth bulges at the equator and Chimborazo sits almost exactly - ScienceBlog.comScienceBlog.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:32:34 GMTOn August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Earth in a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain — and just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak under a moonless sky, setting up one of the most ex - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:27 GMTSolar eclipse to occur next week. Here is what to know - WHROWHRO · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:56:00 GMTAbout 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not functioning satellites — one collision can turn two of them into thousands, making orbital debris a risk that manufactures more of itself - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:30:00 GMTFor roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:30:00 GMTScientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun - FuturismFuturism · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:01:00 GMT