Artemis on the Fast Track – and a New Moon Race NASA’s Moon program reached a major milestone this week: engineers at Kennedy Space Center finished stacking the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2, placing the Orion crew capsule (nicknamed “Integrity”) atop the booster Space. “The towering rocket…has come together,” NASA announced, after hoisting Orion onto SLS inside the…
Interstellar Mystery Lights Up the Solar System An interstellar vagabond is currently streaking through our Solar System, and it’s making waves both in the scientific community and the public imagination. Officially designated 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), this object is only the third interstellar visitor ever observed – a comet from another star now paying us a brief visit ts2.tech. First detected on…
A “Twilight” Asteroid Breaks Speed Records Astronomers are buzzing about 2025 SC79, a newfound asteroid that’s zipping around the sun at near-record pace. Scott S. Sheppard, an astronomer at Carnegie Science, first spotted the object on September 27 using the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile Carnegiescience Carnegiescience. What he found was astonishing: an asteroid orbiting the sun in just 128 days,…
A Once-in-a-Millennium Visitor Lights Up the Sky If you haven’t been skywatching lately, now is the time – Comet C/2025 A6, nicknamed Lemmon, is putting on its best show in late October 2025. This rare comet was first spotted in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona Sfgate. Since then it has been steadily brightening as it races toward…
In recent weeks astronomers have been fascinated by the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it rushes through the inner Solar System. First spotted by the ATLAS telescope (Chile) on July 1 ts2.tech, it turned out to be moving so fast on a hyperbolic path that it could only have come from outside our solar neighborhood. Follow-up orbits confirm it is on…
NASA Announces New “Quasi-Moon” Discovery On Oct 22, 2025, space agencies worldwide celebrated the announcement that Earth has a new celestial companion. A team from the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS survey discovered a tiny asteroid – designated 2025 PN7 – on Aug. 2, 2025, and subsequent orbit analysis showed it has been silently trailing Earth for roughly 60 years Chron.…
What’s Causing the Aurora Spectacle? The Northern Lights (aurora borealis) occur when bursts of solar plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field and excite atmospheric gases. In this case, four CMEs from an active sunspot region are en route to our planet. Space weather forecasters describe it as a “train of solar storms” headed our way Space. As NOAA explains, when…
Close Call with Asteroid 2025 TP5 Astronomers have identified Asteroid 2025 TP5 as a very close but safe Earth flyby. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab data, 2025 TP5 will swoop by at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) on Oct. 15, 2025, at ~60,328 miles (97,089 km) from Earth’s center Space. By comparison, the Moon orbits ~238,855 miles away. After the Earth…
These astounding discoveries come from coordinated observations worldwide. Below we delve into the details: what we’ve learned about 3I/ATLAS, how it compares to other interstellar visitors, and why scientists are so excited. What Is 3I/ATLAS? A Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (sometimes simply called “ATLAS”) is an interstellar comet – a chunk of ice and rock that formed around a distant…
The Draconids: A “Dragon” in the Night Sky Every October, the Draconid meteor shower gives skywatchers a chance – however slim – to see fireballs from the Dragon. The Draconids occur when Earth passes through dust debris shed by Comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner, a small periodic comet that orbits the sun every 6.6 years ts2.tech. As these cometary bits hit Earth’s atmosphere at a relatively languid…
A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System Humanity has waited a long time to study a comet from another star – and suddenly, within a decade, we’ve had three. 3I/ATLAS (officially 3I/2025 A1) is the latest of these rare interstellar interlopers. It was first detected moving through the outer Solar System in June 2025 with an exceptionally eccentric orbit. Follow-up observations quickly confirmed what its…
January 27, 2026, 6:49 PM EST. On Jan. 27, 2026, UnitedHealth Group's 20% earnings-related drop dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.83% to 49,003.42, highlighting healthcare sector weakness. In contrast, the S&P 500 rose 0.41% to a record 6,978.58, and the Nasdaq gained 0.91% to 23,817.10, lifted by technology and AI-driven stocks. Micron Technology rallied after announcing a $24 billion AI-focused memory plant in Singapore, reflecting robust capital expenditure in semiconductors. Amazon's decision to shift its Fresh and Go stores to Whole Foods was also well-received. UnitedHealth's large weighting in the price-weighted Dow exacerbated the index's decline, but broader market optimism centers on tech and semiconductor sectors ahead of key earnings from the Magnificent Seven.