The White House has proposed massive changes to the scientific process in the U.S. which, if passed, could make science funding dependent on the whims of political appointees.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a new rule called “Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” on May 28. This rule would give political appointees the power to change, limit, or even fully…
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has ratified protocols advising what an astronomer should do if they discover evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in our modern global world of social media, AI deep fakes and misinformation.
Referred to as the…
New York — This weekend, I watched as Prada and Axiom Space unveiled the next-generation Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment for astronauts on the moon. This is a critical piece of Axiom’s new AxEMU spacesuits the company is designing with Prada for NASA’s…
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…
