A fireball 16 times brighter than Venus streaked across the U.S. night sky, spanning over a dozen states before disintegrating over Missouri, according to NASA. The meteor, which traveled at 56,000 mph, was captured by NASA meteor cameras and dashcam footage, offering scientists critical data on atmospheric entry and the frequency of high-intensity space rock … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured high-resolution imagery of Messier 88 (M88), an active spiral galaxy located 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. According to NASA and ESA, the galaxy harbors a central supermassive black hole—estimated at 100 million times the mass of the sun—that is actively consuming surrounding gas and dust, … Read more
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, a spacecraft that spent over a decade studying the Martian upper atmosphere, has reached the end of its service life. According to NASA, the spacecraft experienced an unexpected loss of signal on December 6, 2026, after passing behind Mars. Officials have determined the spacecraft is unrecoverable, marking … Read more