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 in the universe, scientists have to start with a more basic question: how did Earth get its supply of the chemicals that make up…
'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…
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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 trillionaire: Elon Musk.
On Friday (June 12), Musk’s rocket company SpaceX made its debut on the Nasdaq, marking the largest IPO in…
Watch SpaceX launch 3 huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Florida early on June 17
June 17, 2026
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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…
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 “ultra-hot…
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 series of changes in the sun’s atmosphere that offer new clues about how major eruptions begin. Eventually, these results…
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We have 4 fundamental forces of nature. 'Quantum gravity' could help lead us to a mysterious 5th
June 16, 2026
For decades, scientists have searched for a fifth fundamental force of nature that can explain mysterious aspects of the universe such as dark energy and dark matter. These are pieces of our cosmos that simply can’t be accounted for by the four fundamental forces we know…
The critical robot arm on the ISS isn't working properly, but NASA has a plan to fix it
June 15, 2026
One of the space station’s robot arms, crucial for catching cargo ships and doing a share of maintenance duties, is offline for at least a few weeks for repairs.
Canadarm2, which just passed 25 years of service in April on the International Space Station (ISS), will require a spacewalk to fix an apparently broken part that seized up during routine work on May 27, NASA said in a blog post…
