Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

"Is holding a city worth losing an army?" For centuries, that question has haunted military planners, and today it hangs over Pokrovsk, a battered Ukrainian stronghold in the Donbas. The city has endured nearly two years of relentless Russian assaults its streets have been reduced to rubble, and its...

Rarely does a single letter from one member of Congress set off a chain reaction in debate about the future of space science in America, but an urgent appeal by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren for action by NASA leadership has done just that. She called for a halt to the...

Could a shard of some other star system have just broken apart right near the Sun? In late October 2025, astronomers saw 3I/ATLAS-the only third confirmed interstellar object-undergo a spectacular brightening as it swung past perihelion. What followed was a flurry of data indicating fragmentation, unusual acceleration, and chemical...