The idea that a blind spot near Venus could conceal city-killing asteroids sounds sensational—until the geometry is mapped and the detection gaps are audited across telescopes, orbits, and mission timelines. The danger isn’t that Earth is about to be hit tomorrow; it’s that the current surveillance architecture leaves a wedge of sky where large, fast, … Read more
A fiery wave from the Sun can rip a comet’s tail clean off—an eerie spectacle we’ve witnessed before—but this time the target is an interstellar visitor, turning a familiar space-weather drama into a once-in-a-generation scientific opportunity that traces directly back to decades of comet–storm forensics and the dawn of interstellar object hunting. How comets became … Read more
Russia’s Bion‑M No. 2 biosatellite—nicknamed “Noah’s Ark” for flying 75 mice, over 1,500 flies, and a mix of microbes, seeds, and cell cultures—returned after 30 days in orbit, and the real story isn’t the spectacle; it’s the systems engineering of life itself for deep‑space missions. The mission’s purpose was to measure how microgravity and radiation … Read more
