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U.S. lawmakers push for permanent lunar base amid China competition — feasibility and industry implications

U.S. lawmakers are pressing to establish a permanent lunar surface base, explicitly framed as a response to strategic competition with China. The proposal raises sharp questions about technical feasibility, costs, timelines and how commercial and NASA contractors would deliver and sustain lunar infrastructure.

2026-03-12T06:04:06.000636-07:00

Universe Today

Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents could redefine the habitable zone

2026-03-12T05:08:36.641744-07:00

Wall Street Journal

Jared Isaacman reshapes Artemis to accelerate U.S. return to the Moon

2026-03-12T05:09:16.626021-07:00

Space.com

Black hole–neutron star mergers show unexpected orbital dynamics, challenging formation models

2026-03-11T14:03:23.680232-07:00

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U.S. lawmakers push for permanent lunar base amid China competition — feasibility and industry implications U.S. lawmakers are pressing to establish a permanent lunar surface base, explicitly framed as a response to strategic competition with China. The proposal raises sharp questions about technical feasibility, costs, timelines and how commercial and NASA contractors would deliver and sustain lunar infrastructure.

2026-03-12T06:04:06.000636-07:00

U.S. lawmakers push for permanent lunar base amid China competition — feasibility and industry implications

Wall Street Journal

Jared Isaacman reshapes Artemis to accelerate U.S. return to the Moon Billionaire Jared Isaacman is overhauling NASA’s Artemis programme, bringing private-sector methods and an expedited agenda to the agency’s lunar effort to bring American astronauts closer to a crewed Moon landing than at any time in decades. His stewardship signals a major inflection in Artemis strategy and execution.

2026-03-12T05:09:16.626021-07:00

Jared Isaacman reshapes Artemis to accelerate U.S. return to the Moon

Universe Today

Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents could redefine the habitable zone A preprint by MIT and Cardiff researchers including Dr. Sara Seager argues ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DES) could serve as alternative solvents for life, permitting biochemistry in environments previously considered too hot, cold or dry — potentially expanding the conventional habitable zone and reframing biosignature searches.

2026-03-12T05:08:36.641744-07:00

Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents could redefine the habitable zone

Space.com

Black hole–neutron star mergers show unexpected orbital dynamics, challenging formation models New observations of black hole–neutron star mergers reveal orbital dynamics at odds with prevailing formation scenarios. The results constitute convincing evidence that not all BH–NS binaries share a common origin, forcing revisions to binary-evolution models and gravitational-wave population predictions and nucleosynthesis expectations.

2026-03-11T14:03:23.680232-07:00

Black hole–neutron star mergers show unexpected orbital dynamics, challenging formation models

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Northrop Grumman’s first Cygnus XL freighter set to depart ISS March 12 Northrop Grumman’s first Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station Thursday, March 12 at 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105 GMT). NASA will stream the undocking live as the new Cygnus variant completes its resupply mission and prepares for post‑undock disposal operations.

2026-03-11T12:09:01.367071-07:00

Northrop Grumman’s first Cygnus XL freighter set to depart ISS March 12

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Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program Political pressure to accelerate Artemis timelines is increasing the risk of schedule slips, cost growth and technical trade‑offs across NASA’s lunar programme. Shortened decision windows and architecture changes are straining contractors, compressing launch margins for SLS/Orion and complicating plans for a crewed lunar landing target.

2026-03-11T06:27:22.735834-07:00

Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program

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NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope proposal from Probe-class astrophysics competition NASA disqualified one of two proposals competing to become the agency's next Probe-class X‑ray telescope, a move the mission's principal investigator blamed on last year's internal upheaval at the agency. The decision leaves a single remaining bidder in the competition and tightens NASA's selection options.

2026-03-11T05:52:23.180456-07:00

NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope proposal from Probe-class astrophysics competition

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DART images reveal asteroids ejecting 'cosmic snowballs' — ejecta dynamics force rethink of planetary‑defense models NASA's DART mission captured images showing the impacted asteroid ejecting large clumps of material — 'cosmic snowballs' — a phenomenon engineers initially mistook for a camera fault. The observed clumping and trajectories of ejecta alter assumptions about momentum transfer and debris dispersal used in planetary‑defense planning.

2026-03-11T05:01:36.027966-07:00

DART images reveal asteroids ejecting 'cosmic snowballs' — ejecta dynamics force rethink of planetary‑defense models

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U.S. lawmakers push for permanent lunar base amid China competition — feasibility and industry implications

Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents could redefine the habitable zone

Jared Isaacman reshapes Artemis to accelerate U.S. return to the Moon

Black hole–neutron star mergers show unexpected orbital dynamics, challenging formation models

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