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Watch NASA roll out Artemis 2 moon rocket tonight ahead of April 1 launch

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on Thursday (March 19) ahead of a planned April 1 liftoff, and you can watch the action live.

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All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common in the solar system.

LiveScience

A sky-shattering boom rips across Ohio and Pennsylvania, leaving terrified residents scrambling to figure out what just happened

A sky-shattering boom ripped across Ohio and Pennsylvania this Tuesday morning, leaving residents startled and scrambling for answers, a phenomenon that NASA has now confirmed was caused by a meteor. The cosmic visitor entered our atmosphere at around 9 AM local time, creating a sonic boom that truly jolted people…

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NASA is scrambling after a massive object tore through the sky, exposing a terrifying gap in Earth’s planetary defense

NASA just had a pretty unsettling moment, missing a significant meteor explosion right over Cleveland, Ohio, on March 17. This blast, which delivered a shockwave equivalent to about 250 tons of TNT, came from an object that was just two meters wide and weighed roughly seven tonnes.

The Mary Sue

Astronauts complete prep for new ISS solar array on 1st NASA spacewalk in 10 months

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams prepared the International Space Station for the addition a new solar array during a spacewalk on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.

Space

Artemis II: NASA is preparing for a return to the moon, but why is it going back?

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons why the U.S. wants to return.

LiveScience

How common are fireballs streaking across the sky?

Rocks from outer space are constantly hurtling toward Earth, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm people

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Rare 'daytime fireball' meteor creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton space rock explodes above eastern US

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT, was also seen from space.

LiveScience

Artemis II: humanity's return to the Moon reaches the launch pad

When European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano commanded the International Space Station in 2019, Christina Koch was his flight engineer. The pair spent six months together in orbit before returning to Earth on the same Soyuz spacecraft. Now Koch is preparing to fly to the Moon, and Parmitano says the…

Radio France Internationale

X-59 gets ready for 2nd test flight | Space photo of the day for March 18, 2026

NASA's X-59 jet looks ready to fly into the sunset in this new image taken before its second test flight.

Space

Rainfall, rivers and seas: How Earth can prepare us to explore Saturn's moon Titan

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home planet.

Space

Beyond Artemis 2: NASA pursuing a 'more achievable' path back to the moon

As NASA gears up for the launch of Artemis 2, the agency is revising its moon landing strategy, aiming to make future missions more achievable and sustainable.

Space

Alien Attack? Seven-Ton Meteor Hits Cleveland Ohio, Residents Joke At Creatures 'Emerging' From Lake Erie

A meteor streaked across Cleveland, causing a sonic boom and sparking humorous alien jokes. NASA confirms the meteor fragmented over Lake Erie

International Business Times UK

NASA Confirms Shocking Boom as 17,000-Pound Meteor Tears Across Ohio Sky – Are More Space Rocks on the Way?

A 17,000-pound meteor streaked across Northeast Ohio, producing a loud boom and fragments over Medina County, NASA confirms

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Why Didn't NASA Detect the Meteor That Hit Cleveland, Ohio—Despite a 250-Ton TNT-Equivalent Blast?

A meteor explosion over Cleveland, Ohio, on 17 March 2026, went undetected by NASA, raising questions about the limits of current space surveillance systems.

Space

Watch live today: NASA astronauts conducting spacewalk delayed by ISS medical evacuation

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk today (March 18) that was delayed by the first-ever medical evacuation of the ISS, and you can watch the action live.

The Guardian - US

Meteor over Ohio causes large boom heard as far away as Pennsylvania

Nasa spokesperson says meteor was traveling at 45,000mph but no reports of debris found

Space

NASA will roll Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad on March 19

NASA plans to roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket to the pad on Thursday (March 19) and is still targeting April 1 for the launch of its first crewed mission to the moon in more than half a century.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wants to defend Earth against dangerous asteroids. Here's how

Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a variety of deflection technologies.

Space

100 years after Robert Goddard's 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon

100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program to extend humanity's reach into deep space.

Space

Astronomers discover a new type of planet that probably smells like rotten eggs

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs.

The Independent UK

Scientists find entirely new kind of planet

Study suggests that the galaxy’s planets could be far more different than we realised – and some might be able to support life

Space

Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands | Space photo of the day for March 16, 2026

Scientists are searching for evidence of microbial life left behind in these mineral deposits.

The Conversation

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts.

The Independent UK

China unveils humanoid robot on wheels key to building lunar base

Robot can help assemble infrastructure, transport materials, collect samples, and maintain equipment for a lunar base before astronauts arrive

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