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Satellite watches wall of dust roll through Texas | Space photo of the day for March 17, 2026
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (255+ words) The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans. Incredible satellite imagery shows a wall of dust being blown through Texas as a cold front pushed its way across the United States on Monday (March 16). The footage was…...
Arizona's Meteor Crater is still revealing new secrets 50, 000 years later
1+ mon, 18+ hour ago (443+ words) "The crater is still providing new insights every year, so continued studies there are really important." Arizona's Meteor Crater and other scars leftover from collisions with space rocks continue to serve up their secrets. Meteor Crater formed some 50, 000 years ago....
Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (65+ words) Brett is curious about emerging aerospace technologies, alternative launch concepts, military space developments and uncrewed aircraft systems. Brett's work has appeared on Scientific American, The War Zone, Popular Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and more. Brett has degrees from…...
Antarctica has lost 5, 000 square miles of 'grounded ice' in the last 30 years, satellite images reveal
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (541+ words) "It's like the balloon that's not punctured everywhere, but where it is punctured, it's punctured deep." Night Sky This Week A sweeping new satellite analysis shows that Antarctica has lost nearly 5, 000 square miles (12, 950 square kilometers) of grounded ice over the…...
Rare glass from 6-million-year-old meteorite strike found in Brazil " but the crater is still missing
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (769+ words) There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world. Night Sky This Week Brazil is host to a newly found field of natural glass created from meteorite impacts, according to a new study. The natural glass…...
Snowball Earth's liquid seas dipped way below freezing
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (384+ words) Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as "15 C. Night Sky This Week This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space. com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In Nature Communications,…...
Apollo moon rocks may have finally solved an old lunar mystery
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (459+ words) Did the moon have a strong or weak magnetic field in its early history? We may now know the truth. Night Sky This Week For decades, planetary scientists have debated a fundamental question about the moon's early history: Did it…...
Antarctica's 'gravity hole' reveals the evolution of Earth's deep interior
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (511+ words) A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years. A "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica is offering scientists a rare glimpse into Earth's deep interior, a dynamic record of slow-moving…...
Scientists measure air pollution from reentering Space X rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (769+ words) "This study represents an important milestone in observing the influence of space sector activities on the atmosphere." For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as space debris burned up…...
The way Earth's surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (771+ words) Space. com's Sci-Fi Reader's Club. Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse…...