Scientists Publish the First Direct Measurement of Space Debris Pollution
Reported by Universe Today
Back in February 2025, a SpaceX rocket that had delivered 22 Starlink satellites to orbit had a malfunction. It failed to execute a planned deorbit burn and drifted for 18 days in orbit before beginning an uncontrolled descent about 100km off the west coas...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:38 +0000
Lifeforms can planet-hop on asteroids and survive
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Researchers performed studies that show life forms could survive an asteroid impact and therefore hitch a ride into space on the resulting debris.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:15 +0000
A Little Town with a Long Name
Reported by NASA
A NASA luminary from the Apollo era grew up in Wales near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch....
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:01 +0000
High-Speed Flight Project Overview
Reported by NASA
What We do The High-Speed Flight (HSF) project develops technologies that make high-speed, airbreathing, commercial flight possible from Mach 1 to Mach 5 and above. HSF creates tools, technologies, and knowledge that will help eliminate today’s techn...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:05 +0000
Illinois and UChicago Physicists Develop a New Method for Measuring Cosmic Expansion
Reported by Universe Today
A team of astrophysicists, cosmologists, and physicists has developed a novel way to compute the Hubble constant using gravitational waves. As our capability to observe gravitational waves improves in the future, this new method could be used to make even ...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:03 +0000
What Goes On Inside A Massive Star Before It Explodes As A Supernova?
Reported by Universe Today
When people think of supernova explosions, they're most-often thinking of Type II core-collapse supernovae, where a massive star becomes a red supergiant before collapsing on itself and exploding. New research uncovers what's going on inside the star befor...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:58 +0000