On May 20, SpaceX filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) key documentation for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock.
An IPO signals that a private company is now selling shares to the public on a stock exchange. SpaceX’s long-anticipated move could become the largest IPO in history, perhaps giving a $2 trillion dollar valuation to the company, which will soon be…
Astronomers have struck “black gold” — a treasure trove of black hole mergers. And the discovery was made by analyzing ripples in the very fabric of space and time, or spacetime, called gravitational waves.
This massive haul of mergers contained within the…
May's Blue Moon wows stargazers worldwide — see these stunning photos of the smallest full moon of 2026
June 2, 2026
May’s full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby.
A Blue Moon is the name given to the second full moon in a single calendar month — a rare occurrence that only…
'A pretty significant setback': How Blue Origin's rocket explosion affects NASA's moon plans
June 2, 2026
The recent explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a routine test is a big setback for the private spaceflight company, and will likely have implications for NASA’s Artemis program timeline and the nation’s efforts to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.
The May 28 incident, in which no one was injured, occurred while Blue Origin prepared its fourth New Glenn…
Astronomers have discovered the first signs that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
Scientists had previously suspected that red dwarfs, which are considerably smaller and dimmer than the sun, could consume their own planetary systems — but evidence has…
For years, astronomers have suspected that our solar system may have lost at least one world at some point in its 4.5-billion-year history. And now, new research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may indeed hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice…
Blue Origin just hit a hurdle on its way to the moon.
The company’s powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch engine test at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night (May 28), creating a huge fireball that lit up the dark Space Coast skies.
“We experienced an anomaly during today’s hotfire test,” Blue Origin wrote in an…
Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole
May 29, 2026
Scientists have discovered an ultra-powerful “ghost particle” or neutrino, which struck Earth and was detected in the Mediterranean Sea in 2023, may have been blasted at Earth by blazars powered by a feasting black hole engine.
Blazars are a type of quasar, the…
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A single colossal impact may have rapidly spread water across Mercury and locked much of it into permanently shadowed polar craters — all within the span of a single Mercurian day, or 176 Earth days, according to a new study.
Being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury seems like the last place in the solar system where water ice should survive. The sun appears nearly three times larger in…
