Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

NASA plans to retire the 25-year-old ISS by guiding it into a remote stretch of the South Pacific using a purpose-built SpaceX deorbit vehicle.

EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.

After more than three decades in orbit, the ISS is to be steered into a controlled destructive reentry over the South Pacific. Estimated date.

Greatest eclipse falls at 07:14:46 UT on 2031-05-21, on a path 152.2 km wide; the annular phase lasts up to 5 minutes 26 seconds, its greatest duration reached further east along the track. The path of annularity crosses Angola, Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, s. India, Malaysia and Indonesia, and a partial eclipse is visible from Africa, southern Asia, the East Indies and Australia.

A neutrino beam fired 1,300 km from Fermilab to detectors a mile underground in South Dakota, hunting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.