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Astronomy News 8 October 2025 - 27 October 2025

SpaceX’s Starship Triumph Sparks Moon Race 2.0 with China – Stocks Take Off

NASA’s Epic Week: Moon Rocket Ready, Mars Life Clue, and an Interstellar Visitor

Artemis on the Fast Track – and a New Moon Race NASA’s Moon program reached a major milestone this week: engineers at Kennedy Space Center finished stacking the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2, placing the Orion crew capsule (nicknamed “Integrity”) atop the boosterspace.com. “The towering rocket…has come together,” NASA announced, after hoisting Orion onto SLS inside the Vehicle Assembly Buildingspace.com. This completed rocket – set to launch four astronauts around the Moon – was even exempted from the ongoing federal shutdown, underscoring Artemis 2’s high priorityspace.com. The mission is targeting February 2026 for liftoff, which would mark the first crewed
27 October 2025
Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Unleashes Bizarre Sunward Jet as Scientists Quash Alien Rumors Ahead of Solar Swing-By

Interstellar Mystery Lights Up the Solar System An interstellar vagabond is currently streaking through our Solar System, and it’s making waves both in the scientific community and the public imagination. Officially designated 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), this object is only the third interstellar visitor ever observed – a comet from another star now paying us a brief visitts2.tech. First detected on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS sky-survey telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS immediately stood out: it was moving extremely fast on a one-way hyperbolic trajectory, meaning it is unbound to the Sun and came from far outside our Solar Systemts2.tech. Its inbound
26 October 2025
Hidden ‘Planet-Killer’ Asteroid Found in Sun’s Glare Exposes Dangerous Blind Spot

Hidden ‘Planet-Killer’ Asteroid Found in Sun’s Glare Exposes Dangerous Blind Spot

A “Twilight” Asteroid Breaks Speed Records Astronomers are buzzing about 2025 SC79, a newfound asteroid that’s zipping around the sun at near-record pace. Scott S. Sheppard, an astronomer at Carnegie Science, first spotted the object on September 27 using the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chilecarnegiescience.educarnegiescience.edu. What he found was astonishing: an asteroid orbiting the sun in just 128 days, making it the second-fastest asteroid ever recordedspace.com. Only one known asteroid orbits faster – 2021 PH27, a 1-km rock discovered by Sheppard in 2021 that races around the sun in 113 dayslivescience.com. Even Mercury, the innermost planet, takes 88 days for one
26 October 2025
Last Chance to See Rare Green Comet Lemmon – A Once-in-a-Millennium Sky Spectacle

Last Chance to See Rare Green Comet Lemmon – A Once-in-a-Millennium Sky Spectacle

A Once-in-a-Millennium Visitor Lights Up the Sky If you haven’t been skywatching lately, now is the time – Comet C/2025 A6, nicknamed Lemmon, is putting on its best show in late October 2025. This rare comet was first spotted in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizonasfgate.com. Since then it has been steadily brightening as it races toward the inner solar systemspace.com. By this week, Comet Lemmon reached magnitude ~4, making it one of the brightest comets of the year and borderline visible to the unaided eye under ideal conditionsskyatnightmagazine.com. For context, that’s about as bright as the dimmest
26 October 2025
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shoots Giant Sunward Jet — Experts Debunk Alien Probe Rumors

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shoots Giant Sunward Jet — Experts Debunk Alien Probe Rumors

In recent weeks astronomers have been fascinated by the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it rushes through the inner Solar System. First spotted by the ATLAS telescope (Chile) on July 1 ts2.tech, it turned out to be moving so fast on a hyperbolic path that it could only have come from outside our solar neighborhood. Follow-up orbits confirm it is on a one-way trip, never to return ts2.tech. Importantly, orbital calculations show its minimum distance from Earth is about 1.8 AU (far beyond Mars) ts2.tech, so it will not collide with us. In fact, the comet’s closest brush with any planet was
NASA Confirms Earth’s “Secret Second Moon” – Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 Will Orbit with Us Until 2083

NASA Confirms Earth’s “Secret Second Moon” – Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 Will Orbit with Us Until 2083

NASA Announces New “Quasi-Moon” Discovery On Oct 22, 2025, space agencies worldwide celebrated the announcement that Earth has a new celestial companion. A team from the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS survey discovered a tiny asteroid – designated 2025 PN7 – on Aug. 2, 2025, and subsequent orbit analysis showed it has been silently trailing Earth for roughly 60 yearschron.com. NASA confirmed in a press report that this 62-foot-wide rock is Earth’s newest “quasi-moon,” meaning it is not a bound satellite but a co-orbital asteroidts2.techhindustantimes.com. As one global space news outlet noted, astronomers “confirmed a tiny ‘quasi-moon’ – asteroid 2025 PN7
22 October 2025
Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

Northern Lights Alert: Major Solar Storm Could Ignite Stunning Aurora Displays Across North America

What’s Causing the Aurora Spectacle? The Northern Lights (aurora borealis) occur when bursts of solar plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field and excite atmospheric gases. In this case, four CMEs from an active sunspot region are en route to our planet. Space weather forecasters describe it as a “train of solar storms” headed our wayspace.com. As NOAA explains, when the Sun “burps out huge bubbles of electrified gas” (a CME), those particles stream toward Earth and interact with atoms in the upper atmosphere, creating beautiful displays of lightourmidland.com. NASA casually calls this phenomenon a solar “sun burp” – when the
16 October 2025
SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

Close Call with Asteroid 2025 TP5 Astronomers have identified Asteroid 2025 TP5 as a very close but safe Earth flyby. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab data, 2025 TP5 will swoop by at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) on Oct. 15, 2025, at ~60,328 miles (97,089 km) from Earth’s centerspace.com. By comparison, the Moon orbits ~238,855 miles away. After the Earth flyby, JPL reports that 2025 TP5 will come as close as 74,616 miles to the Moon on Oct. 16space.com. At an estimated 54 ft (16 m) diameterspace.com, it is a medium-sized near-Earth asteroid. Notably, 2025 TP5 was undetected until Oct. 13, just two days
16 October 2025
Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Fire Hose — And Scientists Are Stunned

These astounding discoveries come from coordinated observations worldwide. Below we delve into the details: what we’ve learned about 3I/ATLAS, how it compares to other interstellar visitors, and why scientists are so excited. What Is 3I/ATLAS? A Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (sometimes simply called “ATLAS”) is an interstellar comet – a chunk of ice and rock that formed around a distant star and is now speeding through our Solar System on a one-way trip. It was first spotted on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chilets2.tech. Follow-up analyses quickly confirmed its hyperbolic orbit and
Double Meteor Shower Spectacle: Draconid and Orionid Displays Will Light Up October’s Night Sky

Meteor Storm or Moonlit Fizzle? Draconid ‘Dragon’ Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight with Skywatchers on Alert

The Draconids: A “Dragon” in the Night Sky Every October, the Draconid meteor shower gives skywatchers a chance – however slim – to see fireballs from the Dragon. The Draconids occur when Earth passes through dust debris shed by Comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner, a small periodic comet that orbits the sun every 6.6 yearsts2.tech. As these cometary bits hit Earth’s atmosphere at a relatively languid pace, they burn up and streak across the sky as meteors (often called “shooting stars”)ts2.tech. The Draconids take their name from the constellation Draco, from which the meteors appear to radiate. Because Draco is a northern constellation (its “head” near the dragon’s
Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System Humanity has waited a long time to study a comet from another star – and suddenly, within a decade, we’ve had three. 3I/ATLAS (officially 3I/2025 A1) is the latest of these rare interstellar interlopers. It was first detected moving through the outer Solar System in June 2025 with an exceptionally eccentric orbit. Follow-up observations quickly confirmed what its speed and trajectory implied: this object was not bound to the Sun’s gravityts2.tech. By July 2025, the Minor Planet Center designated it the third interstellar object ever foundts2.tech. Like its predecessors – the cigar-shaped 1I/‘Oumuamua and cometary 2I/Borisov – 3I/ATLAS is
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Stock Market Today

Liberty Global stock price climbs as LBTYA pops and rare Class B spike rattles weekend watchlists

Liberty Global stock price climbs as LBTYA pops and rare Class B spike rattles weekend watchlists

7 February 2026
New York, Feb 7, 2026, 04:55 EST — Market closed Liberty Global’s Class A shares ended Friday at $11.75, up about 4.3%, after a sharp swing in the group’s less-traded Class B stock drew late-week attention on Nasdaq. Class C shares rose about 3.5%, while Class B jumped as much as 139% early in the session and touched a 52-week high of $29.01. (Seeking Alpha) The weekend setup matters because investors head into the new week looking for follow-through ahead of Liberty Global’s next results and after a new push into artificial intelligence tools. On Feb. 3, Liberty Global and
Ashtead share price in focus as buyback rolls on and NYSE switch clocks closer

Ashtead share price in focus as buyback rolls on and NYSE switch clocks closer

7 February 2026
Ashtead shares closed Friday at 4,936p, up 1.09%, after the company bought 88,872 shares under its repurchase program. The group is set to shift its primary listing to New York on March 2, pending court approval, and will be removed from the FTSE UK index the same day. Ashtead paid a half-year dividend of 37.5 U.S. cents per share on Friday.
Beazley share price: big funds reshuffle stakes as Zurich bid deadline nears

Beazley share price: big funds reshuffle stakes as Zurich bid deadline nears

7 February 2026
Beazley shares closed flat at 1,236 pence Friday as BlackRock disclosed a 6.55% stake and Vanguard reported 5.02%. Wellington Management cut its holding below 5%. The disclosures follow Zurich Insurance’s possible takeover offer of up to 1,335 pence per share, with a Feb. 16 deadline for a firm bid.
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