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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…

Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world

June 5, 2026

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…

Scientists Want the Moon to Quarantine Mars Samples

June 4, 2026

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…

Astrophotographer captures breathtaking view of 548 galaxies from a balcony

June 4, 2026

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…

This star system creates a rare triple eclipse. Here's what that would look like

June 4, 2026

A triple star system in which the stars all eclipse one another from our vantage point is standing out as one of the best studied stellar trios; as the stars age, they could even merge. The triple system, known as TIC 295741342, is 3,080 light-years from Earth and was found…

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms

June 3, 2026

A sonic boom heard throughout the northeastern United States last week was caused by a meteor, NASA confirmed after consulting satellite imagery. The meteor’s boom, heard widely on Saturday (May 30) at 2:06 p.m. EDT (local time), was audible over the northeastern…

Unlocking 'the true space age': Impulse Space raises $500 million to build out fleet of ultra-mobile spacecraft

June 3, 2026

Impulse Space just got a lot more money to help finance its big ambitions in the final frontier. The California-based company — which was founded in 2021 by propulsion expert Tom Mueller, the first person Elon Musk ever hired at SpaceX — announced today (June 2) that it has raised $500 million in a “Series D” investment round. It will use the funds to scale up the production and…

Will SpaceX still be a launch company after its historic IPO?

June 3, 2026

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…

Astronomers discover a 'lost world' of black hole mergers: 'It's the astronomical equivalent of uncovering an ancient civilization'

June 2, 2026

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 takes place about once every 2.5 years, because the moon’s 29.5-day cycle doesn’t neatly align with the calendar.