Daily Archives: Dec 18, 2025

On July 1, 2025, a 20-inch survey telescope in Chile's Rio Hurtado Valley spotted a thin, swift speck. In 24 hours, astronomers knew it was no common comet. It is now known as 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever to be seen and the largest and fastest to...

The B-52 Stratofortress is older than most of the pilots who fly it and still, it's not ready for the scrap heap. In a world where stealth fighters and hypersonic missiles make headlines, it seems almost laughable that a bomber from the 1950s could still be a frontline asset...

Could the best evidence yet for Martian life be held captive in a rock? NASA's new peer-reviewed findings from the Perseverance rover indicate just that and while the agency goes to great lengths to downplay caution, the details are kindling hot debate in the planetary science community. For decades, Mars...