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 3628, which…
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 U.S.
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…
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…
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. It’s also…
'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…
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 giant.
Evidence has shown that between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, the solar system’s largest planets likely orbited…
