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Aurora alert! Powerful geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Illinois on March 19
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 15:00
Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies later this week as an incoming coronal mass ejection could spark favorable conditions for widespread northern lights displays.
An astronauts tiny stand-in: tissue chips in space health
Space News - 17 Mar 2026 13:00
Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or tissue chip, enginee...
Space Force overhauls buying structure with new mission portfolios
Space News - 18 Mar 2026 00:44
New structure gives Portfolio Acquisition Executives authority over funding, requirements and integration across major space missions The post Space Force overhauls buying structure with new mission portfolios appeared f...
X-ray spacecraft watches monster black hole wake up and fire cosmic bullets at starburst galaxy
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 23:00
The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.
NASAs X-59 Prepares for Second Flight
NASA Breaking news - 17 Mar 2026 22:55
NASAs X-59 experimentalaircraftis preparing for its second flight, a step that will set the pace for more flight testing in 2026. Over the coming months, NASA will take the quiet supersonic jet faster and higher, whileva...
Office of Space Commerce weighing options for TraCSS user fees
Space News - 17 Mar 2026 22:48
The Trump administration has not yet decided whether to charge for space safety data despite a change in space policy enabling the government to do so. The post Office of Space Commerce weighing options for TraCSS user f...
Dune: Part Three teaser: Five talking points from Denis Villeneuve's return to Arrakis
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 22:00
Paul Atreides' kids, a Duncan Idaho comeback (kinda), and Robert Pattinson's creepy new role.
Dim Delights in Cancer
NASA Breaking news - 17 Mar 2026 21:41
Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: the Beehive Cluster. Cancer also possesses one of the most studied exoplanets: the superhot sup...
Space boom strains supply chain, industry report warns
Space News - 17 Mar 2026 21:08
The industrys supply network, built for smaller volumes and slower production cycles, is struggling to keep pace. The post Space boom strains supply chain, industry report warns appeared first on SpaceNews.
Golden Dome cost estimate rises to $185 billion as Pentagon expands space layer
Space News - 17 Mar 2026 20:37
Guetlein: We were asked to procure some additional space capabilities The post Golden Dome cost estimate rises to $185 billion as Pentagon expands space layer appeared first on SpaceNews.
Ryugu asteroid sample contains all five key components of DNA, scientists find
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 20:00
A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.
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SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 19:45
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From dust to planets: Parabolic flight reveal a turbulent path
Phys.org - 17 Mar 2026 19:40
How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by the University of Bern, with the participation of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and the ...
ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed Round to Redefine How Spacecraft Manoeuvre in Orbit
Space News - 17 Mar 2026 19:05
Stuttgart, Germany - Marc. 17, 2026 - ISPTech, a German space technology company developing propulsion systems for agile in-orbit maneuvering, announced it has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to [] The post ISPTech...
SpaceX launches 10,000th active Starlink satellite into low Earth orbit
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 18:37
SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets on March 17, each carrying Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The company now has more than 10,000 active satellites in its constellation.
Rare daytime fireball spotted from orbit as residents report powerful sonic boom
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 18:33
No major meteor showers are active at this time.
Physicists trace the sun's magnetic engine, 200,000 kilometers below its surface
Phys.org - 17 Mar 2026 18:00
Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots-dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense magnetic activity and often trigger solar eruptions-appear at mid-latitudes and migrate tow...
Satellite watches wall of dust roll through Texas | Space photo of the day for March 17, 2026
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 18:00
The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans.
Asteroid Bennu's rugged surface baffled NASA-now, we finally know why
Phys.org - 17 Mar 2026 17:00
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations fr...
Solving Asteroid Bennus Mysteries
NASA Breaking news - 17 Mar 2026 16:40
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a myster...
Suspected meteor falling over Cleveland could be seen several states away
Phys.org - 17 Mar 2026 16:30
A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion.
NASA will roll Artemis 2 moon rocket back to the launch pad on March 20
SPACE.com - 17 Mar 2026 16:12
NASA has pushed the rollout of its next moon rocket to March 20, but is still targeting April 1 for the launch of its first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century.