Meteor showers occur during the day too, and the Arietids can put on quite a show this time of year.
The shower is active from May 22 to July 3, with a predicted peak around mornings of June 10, 2026, according to astronomy site Earth Sky.
Read more: Night sky June 2026: What you can see tonight
Unlike most meteor showers, however, there is a very narrow window for viewing the Arietids —…
NASA is about to reveal the astronauts who will launch to space on the Artemis 3 mission.
Speculation about who will be in that four-person crew has been high since the return of the Artemis 2 mission, which flew four astronauts around the moon in April. At the time, NASA…
SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) will launch the company into rarefied financial air.
The company revealed this week that it plans to sell shares at $135 apiece during the IPO, which will occur June 12 when SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker…
One of the sky's rarest phenomena is back: How to see rare night-shining clouds this summer
June 8, 2026
Rare noctilucent clouds shine above the city of Kennewick in Washington State June 2. (Image credit: John Clement.)
Noctilucent cloud season has officially begun!
One of the earliest sightings was captured by photographer John Clement, glowing in the skies over the city of Kennewick, Washington, on June 2, who had set out to capture a striking conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, which had…
Methane has been seen spewing from comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time that the gas has been identified on an interstellar object. The amount of methane, relative to water, is also larger than is typically seen in comets from our solar system, further highlighting how…
The Mars graveyard just welcomed another corpse.
On Wednesday (June 3), NASA officially declared its MAVEN orbiter dead, closing the book on a highly successful mission that studied the Red Planet’s atmosphere for nearly a dozen years.
The MAVEN team didn’t…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spacecraft: SETI hunt for 'technosignatures' comes up empty
June 5, 2026
Sorry, true believers: It appears the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is indeed just a comet.
Radio astronomers recently hunted for “technosignatures” coming from 3I/ATLAS, which is just the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. As expected, that search came up empty — but it still gathered valuable data, the scientists said.
“The results from 3I/ATLAS…
A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains the first definitive evidence of a long-lost world that may have rivaled the moon in size and existed just a few million years after the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new study.
The…
A team of researchers is advocating to use the moon as a secure site for biocontainment of extraterrestrial samples, particularly those from Mars, but also from other potential worlds like Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
The researchers contend that our moon offers a naturally…
The Leo Triplet shines in deep space. (Image credit: ing. Cornelis van Zuilen)
Astrophotographer ing. Cornelis Van Zuilen has shared a staggeringly detailed image of the galaxies known as the “Leo Triplet”, after spending 60 hours capturing the light of the cosmic heavyweights from his balcony in the Netherlands.
The Leo Triplet is made up of the spiral galaxies M65, M66 and NGC…
