Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is ‘bursting with methanol,’ new study finds
Astronomers studying the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS have discovered the comet is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical…
Universe-shaking collision of black hole and neutron star could upend our understanding of monster cosmic mergers
The universe-shaking collision of a black hole and a neutron star just led astronomers to a strange type…
Sunday Morning’s European Fireball Was Probably Only a Few Meters in Diameter
On Sunday March 8th, people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands watched as a fireball crossed…
Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station
WASHINGTON — The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as the joint venture…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon, new data shows
The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit…
A massive asteroid hit the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami
A long running scientific dispute about the origin of the Silverpit Crater beneath the southern North Sea has…
Greece Moves Closer to Launch New Fire Monitoring Satellites
Four infrared imaging Hellenic Fire System satellites dedicated to detecting and monitoring wildfires across. Credit: European Space Agency…
March 2026 Satellite Puzzler – NASA Science
Every month, NASA Earth Observatory features a puzzling satellite image. The March 2026 puzzler appears above. Your ChallengeIdentify…
NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander
The report notes that during every one of the Apollo program’s crewed lunar landings, astronauts engaged the backup…
Computational Modeling of Failure at the Fabric Weave Level in Reentry Parachute Energy Modulators
Download PDF: Computational Modeling of Failure at the Fabric Weave Level in Reentry Parachute Energy Modulators Energy modulators (EM)…
NASA Tests Technology for Refueling Landers
The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft,…
High Resolution Stereo Camera Captures 3D Photos of Craters on Mars
Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet’s many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.…