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Bus-sized asteroid will fly past Earth tonight mere days after being discovered. Here's what to expect
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 15:05
Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.
US lawmakers call for a permanent moon base. Will it ever happen?
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 15:00
The impetus for establishing a "Lunar Surface Moon Base" is that America is in a space race with China.
Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe
NASA Breaking news - 12 Mar 2026 06:01
Clouds of dust lofted from the Sahara Desert brought hazy skies and muddy rain to Western Europe.
About Low Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) Project
NASA Breaking news - 13 Mar 2026 00:00
The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project (LBFD) is part of NASAs effort to help enable newaircraftnoise standards that arerequiredto open the market to commercial supersonic flight over land. The federal government banne...
'Rick and Morty' season 9 promises 'No AI slop! Just Grade A organic slop' when it drops on Adult Swim later this year
SPACE.com - 13 Mar 2026 00:00
Adult Swim's wild animated sensation is back this spring for more sci-fi insanity in May.
ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet
Universe Today - 12 Mar 2026 23:43
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agencys Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.
NASA says its Artemis 2 moon rocket is all fixed up. It could launch astronauts to the moon on April 1
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 23:18
NASA has completed the Artemis 2 flight readiness review and plans to launch the historic moon mission as soon as April 1.
This Isn't Just Another Rocky World Orbiting a Red Dwarf. This One's Special
Universe Today - 12 Mar 2026 23:12
Rocky planets are found in abundance around M-type stars (red dwarfs), so finding another one doesn't always generate headlines. But an international team of astronomers say that one recent M-dwarf rocky planet found...
NASA to Cover Upcoming US Spacewalks 94, 95 Outside Space Station
NASA Breaking news - 12 Mar 2026 23:09
NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of two roll-out solar arrays. Experts from NASA will preview the...
The biggest and most expensive Lego Star Wars set ever made is over £130 off in Amazon's UK big spring sale
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 23:00
The 9023-piece Lego Star Wars UCS Death Star is a galaxy-shattering £135 off in Amazon UK's Spring Deal Days sale, but hurry! Stock is already running low.
About Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP)
NASA Breaking news - 12 Mar 2026 23:00
The Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP) conducts research and integrated, systems-level demonstrations in a flight environment to prove, mature and transition them into future aircraft and systems. The program aim...
Scientists Find Evidence of Worlds Colliding 11,000 Light-Years Away
Universe Today - 12 Mar 2026 21:22
Astronomers say unusual readings from a star system 11,000 light-years away suggest that two of the planets circling the star crashed into each other, creating a huge, light-obscuring cloud of rocks and dust.
Why Holly Hunter's Nahla Ake already deserves a place at Star Trek's ultimate top table
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 21:00
'Starfleet Academy''s principal mixes new ideas with inspiration from her famous predecessors
Voyager opens defense and space tech hub in Long Beach
Space News - 12 Mar 2026 20:00
New facility to support electronics and software development for missile defense and space programs The post Voyager opens defense and space tech hub in Long Beach appeared first on SpaceNews.
Why Are Interstellar Comets So Weird? Part 3: They SHOULD Be Weird
Universe Today - 12 Mar 2026 19:14
So why should we expect interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS and 'Oumuamua and even to some extent Borisov to be different-different?
AI accelerates elucidation of nuclear forces with explosive neutron star data
Phys.org - 12 Mar 2026 19:00
A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature Communications, the team...
ISS astronauts take out the space trash | Space photo of the day for March 11, 2026
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 18:59
A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage, headed for a fiery demise.
Tiny NASA Spacecraft DeliversExoplanet MissionsFirst Images
NASA Breaking news - 12 Mar 2026 18:41
With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASAs Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxys most common stars to help answe...
Galactic islands of tranquility: 'Little red dots' may have brewed life's building blocks
Phys.org - 12 Mar 2026 18:20
Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This tranquility is not ...
Another Earth raises $4 million to boost AI training with synthetic satellite data
Space News - 12 Mar 2026 18:10
A Vienna-based startup has raised $4 million to scale a software platform that generates synthetic satellite data for training AI models to detect environmental and operational risks. The post Another Earth raises $4 mil...
NASA project leader blames next-generation X-ray telescope cancellation on agency mismanagement
SPACE.com - 12 Mar 2026 18:00
NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks there's another reason.
Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
NASA Breaking news - 12 Mar 2026 17:56
Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. Webbs Mid-Infrared Instrument collects the ...