After a major winter storm swept across the country in late January, a prolonged surge of Arctic air tightened its grip on large areas of the U.S. pushing temperatures well below normal. From the Midwest to the South, the impacts of snow and ice became more extreme.

NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen if a space rock really were on a collision course with our planet. The agency’s own data show that the risk of a serious impact in any given decade is small but not zero,

The Artemis II astronauts will have near-constant communication with Earth.

For the last couple of years, NASA has been observing an asteroid that could be hurtling towards the moon in a matter of years. Scientists believe that Asteroid 2024 YR4 - which was discovered two years ago - has the potential of hitting the moon in 2032.

In recent weeks, a rumor claiming that Earth would “lose gravity ” for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026, has whipped up an online frenzy. Social media users warned the catastrophe would kill tens of millions of people and even claimed—perhaps even more disturbingly—that NASA knows this is coming and is deliberately staying silent.

NASA’s Artemis II mission will study the Moon and astronaut health. Four astronauts will observe the lunar surface while participating in human research to support future deep space exploration.