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JAXA launched the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft aboard H3 Launch Vehicle flight No10 at 044103 JST on October 20, 2026 from the Tanegashima Space Center

Ten grams from Phobos may reveal how Mars got its moons

October 29, 2026

A sample weighing at least 10 g from Mars’ moon Phobos could contain enough individual…

DRC 2026 Ebola Outbreak map

Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak passes 10 000 confirmed cases in DRC

October 27, 2026

The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reached 10 060…

3d visualization of the arctic polar vortex on October 26, 2026

Arctic stratospheric polar vortex forecast to weaken sharply in early November

October 26, 2026

NASA Ozone Watch’s current Arctic wind product forecasts the 60°N zonal-mean wind at 10 hPa…

comet 3IATLAS by gemini south gmos august 27 2025

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS lost meters of its surface, giving scientists a depth scale for its chemistry

October 25, 2026

New calculations based on reported production rates indicate that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS lost the equivalent…

ASI’s LICIACube satellite acquired this image just after its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, made impact on Sep 26, 2022

3D simulations reveal how a nuclear burst could break apart a threatening asteroid

October 22, 2026

Three-dimensional simulations developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory show how X-rays from a nuclear standoff…

Orange Trentepohlia algae growing on rock. A species of this genus was identified as the source of the color in the 2001 Kerala red rain.

In 2001, red rain fell on parts of Kerala, India, on and off for about two months. Scientists traced the color to algae spores, but one physicist argued the cells came from space.

November 6, 2026

On 25 July 2001, brief, sharply localized showers began turning collected rainwater red across parts of Kerala. The phenomenon continued intermittently for about two…

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline on its sliding supports at the Denali Fault crossing, after the 2002 earthquake.

In 2002 a magnitude 7.9 quake on the Denali Fault shoved the ground about 14 feet sideways under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, but engineers had designed Teflon sliders for the pipe nearly 30 years earlier, and no oil spilled.

November 6, 2026

On November 3, 2002, the M7.9 Denali Fault earthquake ruptured about 340 km (211 miles) of central Alaska and displaced the ground beneath the…

Episode 56 of lava fountaining at Kīlauea summit on November 5, 2026. Credit: USGSCredit: HVO

Kīlauea episode 56 ends abruptly after nearly 6 hours of lava fountaining, Hawaii

November 6, 2026

Episode 56 of Kīlauea’s ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 12:10 HST (22:10 UTC) on November 5, 2026, and ended abruptly at 18:01 HST that…

Night lights over Houston on 16 February 2021, during the blackouts. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

In February 2021 a winter storm froze gas wellheads and wind turbines across Texas, and the state grid came within 4 minutes and 37 seconds of a collapse that officials said could have left most of Texas dark for weeks if not more.

November 5, 2026

Texas’ main power grid spent 4 minutes 23 seconds below a 59.4 Hz protection threshold early on February 15, 2021, leaving 4 minutes 37…

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