Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

The faint speck that ATLAS in Chile detected on July 1, 2025, has become perhaps the most watched object in modern astronomy. Confirmed to be the third known interstellar visitor after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, comet 3I/ATLAS is not only larger and faster than its predecessors but offers an unprecedented...

"The problem with an air-to-ground weapon is it doesn't have - it has to hit it directly," Air Force Lt. Gen. Derek France warned earlier this year, underscoring the urgency for smarter, cheaper ways to counter drones. That urgency is driving a surprise shift: turboprop light attack aircraft, once...

It started with a cosmic act of gluttony: one solar eruption chasing down another across millions of miles, merging into a single, more voracious blast before slamming into Earth's magnetic shield. To scientists, it's called a "cannibal storm," and this week's event has lit up skies far beyond the...