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See a vivid green fireball light up the northeastern US (video)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 1:00pm
The fireball was visible from several states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Categories: Astronomy

Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US States tonight

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:06pm
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.
Categories: Astronomy

A star exploded in the Lupus constellation. Here's how to see the nova in the night sky this month

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00pm
The nova appears to be dimming and may soon be undetectable by the unaided eye.
Categories: Astronomy

Alien life could survive deadly stellar radiation, Earth's desert lichen reveal

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 11:00am
A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.
Categories: Astronomy

Rubin Observatory takes its 1st look at the night skies | Space photo of the day for June 26, 2025

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 10:00am
The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.
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Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 9:00am
The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, but handling that much information poses a severe challenge.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 6:00am
"We are given rules by our own institutions about what we can and cannot say."
Categories: Astronomy

From the Cape to the constellation: SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites (video)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 5:33pm
SpaceX launched a batch of 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Categories: Astronomy

Axiom-4 astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon welcomed aboard International Space Station (video)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 5:00pm
After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 has caught up to the International Space Station, docked and been welcomed aboard for their two-week mission.
Categories: Astronomy

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Wed, 06/25/2025 - 1:04pm
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Categories: Astronomy

'Space chocolate,' mango nectar and pierogis: Here are the international foods the private Ax-4 astronauts are flying to the ISS

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 1:00pm
The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so the food they're carrying up has a very international flavor.
Categories: Astronomy

Off-Earth footprint: Florida company will design shoe in space in 2026

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 12:01pm
Humanity will soon take another step toward establishing an off-Earth economy, if all goes according to plan for the Florida-based shoe company Syntilay.
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The final trailer for 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' is here! 'Say the thing!'

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 11:50am
With exactly a month to go until the release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the final trailer reveals more Galactus, more Franklin, but no Clobberin' Time... yet.
Categories: Astronomy

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 11:00am
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.
Categories: Astronomy

Astronomers thought a mysterious radio burst came from deep space. It was actually a dead NASA satellite

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 10:33am
A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.
Categories: Astronomy

Stargazers in Europe spot a strange cloud from SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 10:16am
The culprit was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Transporter-14 satellite rideshare mission.
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Dwarf galaxy glows red in the Hunting Dogs constellation | Space photo of the day for June 25, 2025

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 9:00am
The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).
Categories: Astronomy

With 'Grace': Astronauts name SpaceX's final Dragon crew capsule

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 7:21am
The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the new capsule, Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson revealed the spacecraft's name.
Categories: Astronomy

New moon of June 2025 sees Mercury climb to its highest point in the sky

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 6:00am
June's new moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX launches historic private Axiom-4 astronaut mission to the ISS (video)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 2:47am
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Ax-4 mission for Axiom Space today (June 25), sending four private astronauts on a two-week mission to the ISS.
Categories: Astronomy