<?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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/scientists-told-them-no-its-too-dangerous-but-they-did-it-anyway-inside-japans-super-close-asteroid-flyby/</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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/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-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/this-week-in-space-podcast-episode-219-spacex-goes-to-war/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We knew we had a lot to live up to': As 'Aliens' turns 40, we chat with the legendary VFX masters who created the Alien Queen (interview)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's almost inconceivable that 40 years have passed since what's been called the greatest sci-fi action film of all time (and not just by us) assaulted theaters with the juiced-up sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, "Alien." Director James Cameron's propulsive vision for a gung-ho military-style movie would call upon Stan Winston Studio's elite creature effects crew from 1984's "The Terminator" &mdash; a team that would later work on "Predator," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Jurassic Park,"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/we-knew-we-had-a-lot-to-live-up-to-as-aliens-turns-40-we-chat-with-the-legendary-vfx-masters-who-created-the-alien-queen-interview/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/we-knew-we-had-a-lot-to-live-up-to-as-aliens-turns-40-we-chat-with-the-legendary-vfx-masters-who-created-the-alien-queen-interview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We knew we had a lot to live up to': As 'Aliens' turns 40, we chat to the legendary VFX masters who created the Alien Queen (interview)]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's almost inconceivable that 40 years have passed since what's been called the greatest sci-fi action film of all time (and not just by us) assaulted theaters with the juiced-up sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, "Alien." Director James Cameron's propulsive vision for a gung-ho military-style movie would call upon Stan Winston Studio's elite creature effects crew from 1984's "The Terminator" &mdash; a team that would later work on "Predator," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Jurassic Park,"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/we-knew-we-had-a-lot-to-live-up-to-as-aliens-turns-40-we-chat-to-the-legendary-vfx-masters-who-created-the-alien-queen-interview/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/we-knew-we-had-a-lot-to-live-up-to-as-aliens-turns-40-we-chat-to-the-legendary-vfx-masters-who-created-the-alien-queen-interview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the Perseids: 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the only reason to look up this season. From mid-July through late August, Earth plows through several other streams of comet and asteroid debris, triggering a series of lesser-known meteor showers across Northern Hemisphere skies. Most will not deliver the dazzling hourly rates of the Perseids, and moonlight will spoil some peak nights in 2026. But for patient skywatchers under dark skies, these lesser]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/beyond-the-perseids-6-meteor-showers-worth-watching-this-summer/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/beyond-the-perseids-6-meteor-showers-worth-watching-this-summer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that transported 'The Odyssey' to outer space]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's not known whether "Ulysses 31" was on Christopher Nolan's radar in his teenage years, but it's intriguing to think it could have influenced the director's decision to take on Homer's "The Odyssey". This animated space opera, a French/Japanese co-production, delivered a crash course in Greek mythology to a generation of kids who grew up in the '80s. And, although it looks more like "Star Wars" than Homer's original tale, it had a decent stab at transferring the Classics to the 31st century (]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/remembering-ulysses-31-the-80s-cartoon-that-transported-the-odyssey-to-outer-space/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/remembering-ulysses-31-the-80s-cartoon-that-transported-the-odyssey-to-outer-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These 'metallic' dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. What are they really?]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you still picture Mars as a monotonous red desert, it may be time for an update.The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has been capturing some of the Red Planet's most surreal landscapes, and its latest images reveal a sprawling field that looks like molten metal frozen across the floor of an ancient Mars crater.The shimmering "waves" aren't metal at all, however. They are dark sand dunes dusted with seasonal frost, much of it carbon dioxide, or "dry ice," that settles on the surfac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/these-metallic-dunes-on-mars-look-like-sci-fi-what-are-they-really/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/these-metallic-dunes-on-mars-look-like-sci-fi-what-are-they-really/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here's why you should look up now]]></title><description><![CDATA[People keep asking me about the total solar eclipse on August 12. That's understandable. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, it is shaping up to be a joyous day of astronomy. Totality will cross eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, but much of Europe will see a very deep partial eclipse, and even parts of North America will see a small bite taken from the sun. Then, just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak beneath perfectly moonless skies. What a double-act! The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-perseid-meteor-shower-starts-this-week-heres-why-you-should-look-up-now/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-perseid-meteor-shower-starts-this-week-heres-why-you-should-look-up-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Aliens' at 40: Here are 26 reasons why James Cameron's sequel is still the greatest sci-fi action movie of all time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that also introduced one of cinema's greatest-ever monsters to the world.Luckily, James Cameron &mdash; then one of Hollywood's hottest properties off the back of "The Terminator" &mdash; has never been a shrinking violet, and was brave enough to face the Xenomorph challenge head-on. Reinventing the franchi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/aliens-at-40-here-are-26-reasons-why-james-camerons-sequel-is-still-the-greatest-sci-fi-action-movie-of-all-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/aliens-at-40-here-are-26-reasons-why-james-camerons-sequel-is-still-the-greatest-sci-fi-action-movie-of-all-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's largest particle accelerator opens new window into the early universe just after the Big Bang: 'A culmination of a decades-long quest']]></title><description><![CDATA[After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense particle 'soup' similar to that which filled the cosmos moments after the Big Bang. The observation could help cosmologists better understand the incredibly hot and dense state of the universe in its earliest moments.The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), regularly creates this so-called quark-gluon plasma by smashing together the atomic nuclei of h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/earths-largest-particle-accelerator-opens-new-window-into-the-early-universe-just-after-the-big-bang-a-culmination-of-a-decades-long-quest/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/earths-largest-particle-accelerator-opens-new-window-into-the-early-universe-just-after-the-big-bang-a-culmination-of-a-decades-long-quest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vikram-1, India's 1st private orbital rocket, launches on historic debut flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indian company will make history early Saturday morning (July 18), and you can watch the action live.Skyroot Aerospace plans to launch its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, on the Indian barrier island of Sriharikota, on Saturday at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT; 11:30 a.m. India Standard Time). Vikram-1 is the first-ever privately built Indian orbital rocket, so its liftoff could blaze a new trail for the nation and for commercial spaceflight.You can watch the launch live here at S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-launches-on-historic-debut-flight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-launches-on-historic-debut-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['The dawn of a new space era': Vikram-1, India's 1st private orbital rocket, aces debut launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indian company just made spaceflight history.Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched its Vikram-1 rocket to low Earth orbit (LEO) early Saturday morning (July 18), making India just the third country with a private orbital launch capability. The other two are established space powers &mdash; the U.S. and China."It is the dawn of a new space era," one of Skyroot's commentators said during the company's launch webcast on Saturday.(Image credit: Skyroot Aerospace)Skyroot Aerospace is based in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-dawn-of-a-new-space-era-vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-aces-debut-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-dawn-of-a-new-space-era-vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-aces-debut-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making history: Watch Vikram-1, India's 1st private orbital rocket, launch early on July 18]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indian company will make history early Saturday morning (July 18), and you can watch the action live.Skyroot Aerospace plans to launch its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, on the Indian barrier island of Sriharikota, on Saturday at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT; 11:30 a.m. India Standard Time). Vikram-1 is the first-ever privately built Indian orbital rocket, so its liftoff could blaze a new trail for the nation and for commercial spaceflight.You can watch the launch live via Skyro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/making-history-watch-vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-launch-early-on-july-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/making-history-watch-vikram-1-indias-1st-private-orbital-rocket-launch-early-on-july-18/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Starry Night' in space: Dark Energy Camera channels a cosmic Van Gogh (video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don't talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot ... ever), but they aren't so popular in other forms of art such as painting. However, a recent cosmic rework of one of art's most well-regarded pieces could be just as breathtaking as its original counterpart.That's all thanks to the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis molecular cloud, that shows the star-for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-starry-night-in-space-dark-energy-camera-channels-a-cosmic-van-gogh-video/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/astronomy_newslocker/the-starry-night-in-space-dark-energy-camera-channels-a-cosmic-van-gogh-video/</guid></item></channel></rss>