<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Astronomy  - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Astronomy  news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[27 Jul 2026 (7 days away): Asteroid 3 Juno at opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asteroid 3 Juno makes closest approach to the Earth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-7-days-away-asteroid-3-juno-at-opposition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-7-days-away-asteroid-3-juno-at-opposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[27 Jul 2026 (7 days away): 134340 Pluto at opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[134340 Pluto is optimally positioned for observation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-7-days-away-134340-pluto-at-opposition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-7-days-away-134340-pluto-at-opposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[26 Jul 2026 (6 days away): Saturn enters retrograde motion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saturn reverses its direction of motion across the sky.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/26-jul-2026-6-days-away-saturn-enters-retrograde-motion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/26-jul-2026-6-days-away-saturn-enters-retrograde-motion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 Jul 2026 (5 days away): The Moon at apogee]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon recedes to its orbit's furthest point from the Earth, making it appear fractionally smaller than at other times of the month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/25-jul-2026-5-days-away-the-moon-at-apogee/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/25-jul-2026-5-days-away-the-moon-at-apogee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 Jul 2026 (4 days away): Lunar occultation of Antares]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon will pass in front of Antares (Alpha Scorpii), creating a lunar occultation visible from countries and territories including Antarctica, French Southern Territories, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Falkland Islands amongst others.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/24-jul-2026-4-days-away-lunar-occultation-of-antares/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/24-jul-2026-4-days-away-lunar-occultation-of-antares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[21 Jul 2026 (Tomorrow): Moon at First Quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon reaches first quarter phase &ndash; appearing high in the sky at sunset and remaining visible until around midnight.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/21-jul-2026-tomorrow-moon-at-first-quarter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:01:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/21-jul-2026-tomorrow-moon-at-first-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Aliens' at 40: James Cameron's sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where does James Cameron's "Aliens" rank among the other Alien movies? That depends on who you ask. Some might say it's the best, while others put it just behind the original (spoiler alert: it's the best). Regardless, there's no denying that this 1986 film shifted gears, moving the franchise from horror to horror-tinged sci-fi action and paving an alternate path for the future.As Cameron stated in an interview with Lofficier, the plan always was "to do a film that was not as scary... it's scary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/aliens-at-40-james-camerons-sequel-is-a-sci-fi-icon-but-did-you-know-he-quit-the-movie-twice/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/aliens-at-40-james-camerons-sequel-is-a-sci-fi-icon-but-did-you-know-he-quit-the-movie-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence could easily fall into the trap of identifying non-life as life on other worlds, claim two researchers from Michigan State University who have tested AI on simulated life in a computer program."We had previously seen that AI has a big Achilles heel when it is trying to classify things that are unlike the things in its training examples," Michigan's Christoph Adami told Space.com. "We call these 'out-of-distribution' samples and it is just incredibly easy to get AI to misc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/should-we-trust-ai-in-the-search-for-alien-life-scientists-arent-so-sure/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/should-we-trust-ai-in-the-search-for-alien-life-scientists-arent-so-sure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' turned general relativity into the bad guy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The biggest blockbusters of 2014 threw up a varied rogues' gallery of bad guys. In "Transformers: Age of Extinction", it was a reincarnated version of Optimus Prime's perma-nemesis, Megatron, while Captain America faced off against a reborn Hydra infiltrating the upper echelons of the US government in "The Winter Soldier". For Spider-Man, it was Electro, while Maleficent showed up in live-action to give Sleeping Beauty nightmares. Christopher Nolan has never been one to go with the Hollywood cro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/how-christopher-nolans-interstellar-turned-general-relativity-into-the-bad-guy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/how-christopher-nolans-interstellar-turned-general-relativity-into-the-bad-guy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 places in the US and Canada to see August's partial solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower in 1 trip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aug. 12, 2026, offers a rare double-header for skywatchers across northeastern North America: a partial solar eclipse during the afternoon followed, hours later, by the peak of the Perseid meteor shower beneath dark summer skies. The eclipse is part of a total solar eclipse happening in eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain. "The neat thing about seeing a partial eclipse, especially one that is total somewhere else, is that you get to join in with the whole event that's going on,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/10-places-in-the-us-and-canada-to-see-augusts-partial-solar-eclipse-and-perseid-meteor-shower-in-1-trip/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/10-places-in-the-us-and-canada-to-see-augusts-partial-solar-eclipse-and-perseid-meteor-shower-in-1-trip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves. The observations could help scientists discover how supermassive black holes with masses millions, often even billions, of times that of the sun grew so fast so soon after the Big Bang.While all large galaxies have supermassive black holes at their hearts, some are slumbering giants, consuming little surrounding gas and dust, while others]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' but they did it anyway: Inside Japan's super-close asteroid flyby]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned spectacular images of a near-Earth asteroid following a super-close flyby on July 5, but heated debate was needed before teams signed off on the daring attempt.When images of the asteroid Torifune arrived on the morning of July 6 Japan time, Makoto Yoshikawa and his team at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) got two surprises at once. Torifune turned out to be a contact binary, in which two chunks of rock have come together under gravity, and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/scientists-told-them-no-its-too-dangerous-but-they-did-it-anyway-inside-japans-super-close-asteroid-flyby/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/scientists-told-them-no-its-too-dangerous-but-they-did-it-anyway-inside-japans-super-close-asteroid-flyby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[27 Jul 2026 (8 days away): Asteroid 3 Juno at opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asteroid 3 Juno makes closest approach to the Earth.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-8-days-away-asteroid-3-juno-at-opposition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-8-days-away-asteroid-3-juno-at-opposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[27 Jul 2026 (8 days away): 134340 Pluto at opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[134340 Pluto is optimally positioned for observation.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-8-days-away-134340-pluto-at-opposition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/27-jul-2026-8-days-away-134340-pluto-at-opposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[26 Jul 2026 (7 days away): Saturn enters retrograde motion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saturn reverses its direction of motion across the sky.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/26-jul-2026-7-days-away-saturn-enters-retrograde-motion/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/26-jul-2026-7-days-away-saturn-enters-retrograde-motion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 Jul 2026 (6 days away): The Moon at apogee]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon recedes to its orbit's furthest point from the Earth, making it appear fractionally smaller than at other times of the month.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/25-jul-2026-6-days-away-the-moon-at-apogee/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/25-jul-2026-6-days-away-the-moon-at-apogee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 Jul 2026 (5 days away): Lunar occultation of Antares]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon will pass in front of Antares (Alpha Scorpii), creating a lunar occultation visible from countries and territories including Antarctica, French Southern Territories, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Falkland Islands amongst others.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/24-jul-2026-5-days-away-lunar-occultation-of-antares/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/24-jul-2026-5-days-away-lunar-occultation-of-antares/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[21 Jul 2026 (2 days away): Moon at First Quarter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moon reaches first quarter phase &ndash; appearing high in the sky at sunset and remaining visible until around midnight.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/21-jul-2026-2-days-away-moon-at-first-quarter/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:05:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/21-jul-2026-2-days-away-moon-at-first-quarter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X  prototype (video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch &mdash; or hop, considering its duration and distance &mdash; took place at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Noshiro test facility on July 11 and lasted about 40 seconds. The 24-foot-tall (7.3 meters) test vehicle, powered by a single engine, rose just over 33 feet (10 m) in the air and traveled a horizontal distance of approximately 50 feet (15 m) across the site's con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/another-reusable-rocket-japan-launches-lands-rv-x-prototype-video/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/another-reusable-rocket-japan-launches-lands-rv-x-prototype-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Week In Space podcast: Episode 219 — SpaceX Goes to War!]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Episode 219 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the space headlines for the past few weeks.It's been busy, and some exciting things are happening! A couple ofcompanies are moving into the space solar power arena &mdash; something we'velong advocated &mdash; and that's welcome progress. Starship is set to flyStarship test number 13, and a lot is riding on this &mdash; the system isoverdue for some proof of concept to keep up with NASA's HLS contract.An exoplanet spotted a d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/this-week-in-space-podcast-episode-219-spacex-goes-to-war/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/astronomy/this-week-in-space-podcast-episode-219-spacex-goes-to-war/</guid></item></channel></rss>