• Danuri records Falcon 9 lunar impact site and ejecta traces near Einstein crater

    ByReet Kaur

    South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter recorded terrain changes and ejecta traces around the site where a discarded Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon near Einstein crater at about 06:34 UTC on August 5, 2026. Danuri completed eight observation sessions around the collision, while the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope detected sodium and lithium emission associated with the impact for five to 10 minutes.

  • UARS Re-entry Alert!

    ByChillymanjaro

    NASA reports that UARS, an atmospheric research satellite the size of a small bus, will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on Sept. 23, plus or minus one day. Not all of the spectacularly-disintegrating spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere; debris could be scattered