Daily Archives: Mar 21, 2026

"The difference between life and death was a few feet or a few seconds." That blunt sentence from a Navy investigation into a different carrier mishap underlines the unforgiving nature of naval operations, especially in contested waters like the South China Sea. In late October 2025, two US Navy...

When the "Gannon" superstorm struck in May 2024, Earth's plasmasphere-the doughnut-shaped shell of cold, charged particles that co-rotates with the planet's magnetic field-collapsed to an altitude of just 9,600 kilometers, a level never before recorded by modern instruments. This sudden compression, from its typical 44,000 kilometers, removed five-sixths of...

What's the rarest thing you can see in the night sky? For astronomers right now, it's an interstellar comet-and 3I/ATLAS is putting on a show unlike any in years. Racing through the solar system at more than 130,000 mph, this icy traveler from another star system has just made...