Supermassive black holes are notoriously messy when devouring a star, but they can also linger over their meals, letting out massive radio “burps” months or even years after their cosmic feast appears finished.
Now, scientists tracking these events have found there is no one-size-fits-all model for how black holes digest stellar material. Speaking Monday (June 15) at the 248th meeting…
Could you run a marathon on Mars? And also — would you want to?
NASA’s Perseverance rover just completed an off-Earth marathon: It has now traveled more than 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) across the Martian landscape after landing in February 2021, according to the…
Earth got some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system – with a little help from the solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, according to a recent study.
To figure out why we’re all here, and whether anyone else might be out there…
'Best. Mars. Mission. Ever.' Scientists hail MAVEN's legacy as NASA retires Red Planet orbiter
June 18, 2026
Following months of unsuccessful recovery efforts, NASA has officially begun decommissioning the MAVEN orbiter, bringing to a close an 11-year mission that transformed scientists’ understanding of Mars and became one of the agency’s most valuable assets at the Red Planet.
The decision follows the loss of contact with the spacecraft in December 2025. That loss happened after a routine…
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Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, on screen during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City on Friday, June 12, 2026. (Image credit: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
For better or for worse, the world has its first…
Watch SpaceX launch 3 huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Florida early on June 17
June 17, 2026
Webcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 8-10 Mission Live Launch – YouTube
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SpaceX will launch three giant direct-to-cell satellites early Wednesday morning (June 17), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with three of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, during…
James Webb Space Telescope forecasts extreme weather on exoplanet that rains rubies and sapphires
June 17, 2026
Imagine a world where the weather forecast calls for winds blowing at 11,000 miles per hour (18,000 kilometers per hour) and nighttime showers of liquid metal, rubies and sapphires.
This is the chaotic reality astronomers have pieced together for WASP-121b, an…
Scientists find strange changes on sun hours before a powerful X9 solar flare: 'I was not expecting what I found'
June 16, 2026
Scientists may have finally seen the sun telegraph an eruption hours before it happened — and the one caught was one of our star’s most powerful explosions.
Drawing on a rare dataset collected in the hours leading up to a massive solar flare, scientists identified a…
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