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NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind
Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis…

March 6, 2026
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NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind
Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis…

March 6, 2026
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How exactly does the Pentagon evict Claude?
Swapping out one AI model on a classified network for another takes minutes. Retraining the people who’ve learned to rely on it will take much longer

FILE – Side by side image of Venus and Saturn. (NASA)
This weekend sky watchers will get a special treat as Venus and Saturn will meet for a conjunction and appear to be right next to each other.
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On March 7 and March…

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar “superstorm” that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The storm caused glitching spacecraft and a…

A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second — the first time human activity has altered the orbit of a celestial object, researchers report March 6 in Science Advances….

In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object’s orbit around its larger companion asteroid.
We already knew that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was

March 6, 2026
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built

March 6, 2026
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The reason the Middle East has so much oil is the same reason it’s all stuck there now
A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is…

Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.
The vehicle — known as HTV-X1, because it’s the first of its kind — was released by the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm…