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A coronal mass ejection is currently racing toward Earth and could trigger G2 to G3 geomagnetic storm conditions on June 8, potentially boosting aurora displays across northern latitudes.

Since NASA's Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through obs...

Scientists have proposed a spacecraft-based system to actively strengthen Earth's magnetic shield and reduce the impact of powerful solar storms.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a dormant supermassive black hole located a staggering 10 billion light-years away.

Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the Hadean and Archean eons. Because few rocks today are more than 4 billion years old, our understanding ...

Asthe FIFA World Cupapproaches, NASA is bringingspace science andengineeringto soccer fansworldwide.FromJune 11to July 19,2026,NASA willhost anexhibitat FIFA Fan FestivalHouston where visitors can learn how research aboa...

Unfortunately theres more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from researchers at NASAs Ames Research Center, reports that 73.3% of images the agencys new SPHEREx spa...

The ekpyrotic theory tries to beat inflation with bouncing higher-dimensional branes, no singularity, and a universe that has always existed. A tour of the prettiest version of the idea and how it claims to handle flatne...

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are critical for life to survive on Earth.

Amazon no longer faces a July 30 cutoff for deploying half its planned 3,232 broadband satellites, but the reprieve comes with a temporary loss of spectrum priority that could give SpaceX and other rivals more leverage i...

We witnessed a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards late last week, alerting comet watchers to a dramatic change in brightness for periodic comet 220P ...

Pour out a bottle of Head & Shoulders for Ivan Reitman's Evolution on its 25-year anniversary.

We don't know whether theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early universe, when physics was much different. They had no stellar progenitors and were created by the dir...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, June 8, 2026. The first stage booster flew for a record 35th time.

Astronauts on long space missions may one day use plants to produce fresh stocks of medicines on demand, thanks to new research by engineers at the University of California San Diego. The team developed a simple method t...

With the next tranche of declassified files from the Pentagon expected any day now, dive deeper into the UFO phenomenon with these 15 books covering its history, impact and possible explanations.

On June 5, 2026, NASAsexperimental X-59aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time,setting the stage fordemonstratingits quiet supersonic capabilitieslater this year. NASA test pilotJim Clue Lesstook ...

Description One of the three satellites that make up NASAs INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission sits on a fixture at the facilities of Blue Canyon Technologies in Lafayette, Colorado. The satellite comple...

If were to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. Were going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sail. These g...

Using a novel simulation model based on machine learning, an international research team at GSI/FAIR has succeeded in gaining a deeper understanding of element formation in stellar events such as neutron star mergers. Fo...

Jupiter and Venus meet in the western sky on June 9 - here's how to see it.

America is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from space was the title of my SpaceNews opinion article in October 2024. Little did I know that its [] The post Russia is jamming GPS from space appeared first ...