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Source: Found here The planet Venus is the second planet from the sun and is almost equal in size and mass with our planet, Earth. - pix by JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill (CC BY 2.0) PETALING JAYA: The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to Earth's rotation, which is moving from west to east on its rotation. While planets in our solar system move one way, is it true that there's a planet moving in the opposite direction? The initial theory of why Venus does this is that it initially spun in the same direction as most other planets and it simply flipped its axis 180 degrees at some point. Scientists have argued that the sun's gravitational pull on the planet's very dense atmosphere could have caused strong atmospheric tides. However, in 2000, a team of scientists from the French research institute Astronomie et Systemes Dynamiques pro...

More details: Visit website If our species manages to hang on for a few billion additional years, we might be in for a wild ride — stars passing in the vicinity of the sun could cause planets in our solar system to collide or even be ejected, according to a paper published last month in the journal Icarus. The findings even suggest a scenario in which our world ends not consumed by the sun, but in a carom prompted by the powers of gravity. The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars. Each one is in motion, zinging in its own orbit around the galactic center. Consider a long enough span of time — something astronomers are wont to do — and it's inevitable that another star will pass closer to the sun than Proxima Centauri, currently our nearest stellar neighbor. In fact, calculations based on orbits of stars cataloged by the Gaia spacecraft suggest that, every million years, 33 stars, give or take a few, do just that. ...

More details: Visit website And that July 2022 congressional hearing wasn't the first time whistleblowers sounded the UAP alarm. In 2022, officials created a new department called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to address concerns related to all things extraterrestrial. When the office was founded, the task force had two main jobs. The first was to collect data on UAP sightings, most of which they chalked up to balloons, satellites, and birds. The second was to investigate claims that the Pentagon operated a secret division to harvest alien technology; shockingly, the team found the Pentagon was doing quite the opposite. AARO discovered that Washington was behind at least one myth about extraterrestrial spacecrafts, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report published earlier this month. Some of the fabrications uncovered by Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, seem unthinkable. Others align suspic...

Reference: See here HELSINKI — Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks. Astronaut Chen Zhongrui opened the Wentian module hatch at 3:04 a.m. Eastern (0704 UTC) June 26, beginning activities, ascending to the tip of Tiangong's robotic arm. Mission commander Chen Dong, wearing a Feitian EVA suit with blue stripes, joined his colleague two hours later. Wang Jie, formerly an engineer with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), assisted operations from within Tiangong. During the EVA, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui, a former air force pilot on his first visit to orbit, installed debris protective shielding outside of Tiangong, while also inspecting and installing extravehicular equipment and interfaces out the space station. Newly installed automated foot restraint adapters and interface adapters on Tian...

Source: Found here Since its launch in 2021, the James Webb telescope has shed a significant amount of light on the makeup of the early universe, as well as obtain information on exoplanets, which are known planets beyond the Earth's solar system. Now, though, the telescope has gone a step further, discovering a brand new exoplanet. Approximately 5,900 exoplanets have been discovered in the last 30 years , but less than 2% of that figure have been directly imaged , making this latest finding all the more remarkable. In many cases, exoplanets are detected indirectly when they cause a star's light to fade slightly by passing in front of it. Researchers say the newest known exoplanet is a young gas giant planet, similar in size to Saturn , which, with a radius about nine times the size of the Earth's , is our solar system's second biggest planet after Jupiter. Despite that, it is the smallest exoplanet discovered by di...

Source: See here The European Space Agency has revealed the first pictures taken by its new space satellite, Biomass. The images show in great detail a variety of landscapes from continents across the world including South America, Africa and Asia. Biomass' five-year mission will provide detailed three dimensional maps of the world's most dense and remote tropical forests. The Biomass mission was launched two months ago, on 29 April, from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. According to the ESA, these first images released mark a huge step towards understanding how Earth's forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. This vibrant colours in each picture were created using instruments on board Biomass, with each colour revealing different types of landscape. For example, green hues mainly represent rainforests, red areas are forested floodplains and wetlands, grasslands are...

Reference: Visit website Renowned American journalist Lauren Sánchez and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have been making headlines as they recently got hitched in Italy on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice on June 27, 2025. Sánchez, who, on April 14, 2025, made a trip to the boundary of outer space on the Blue Origin flight, brought a secret souvenir for her wedding back to planet Earth. In a June 2025 interview with Vogue for her digital cover story, the 55-year-old Lauren Sánchez told the outlet that her space exploration experience influenced two factors of her lavish Italian wedding, which included the "something blue" that she had with her while she tied the knot with billionaire Bezos. While Sánchez claimed that she and Jeff had no plans to follow many traditions, she did mention that they were following their popular wedding rhyme, which goes: As she praised her wedding dress, which was designed by Dolce ⁘ G...

More details: Visit website WASHINGTON — NASA's acting administrator expects to decide on a new "top-level" structure for the agency within weeks, but a Senate-confirmed administrator may not be in place until next year. Agency leadership, including acting administrator Janet Petro, held a town hall for NASA employees June 25. The town hall webcast was not open to the public but a recording of it was obtained by SpaceNews and separately posted online. At the town hall, Petro said she was working on a reorganization of the agency that could change how the agency is structured and alter lines of reporting within it. One approach would be to organize the agency through mission directorates, an approach that would appear similar to its current structure. A second would be "center-centric" and revolve around its field centers. A third approach would be a "product line model," although she did not elabo...

More details: Found here Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Saturday, June 28, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-34 mission. Original story: Another post-midnight SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch is on tap, with liftoff targeted early this morning from Florida's Space Coast. SpaceX crews aim to launch the Falcon 9 at 12:26 a.m. from Launch Complex 40 . The rocket will deploy another batch of 27 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. No Brevard County sonic booms are expected. Rather, after soaring skyward along a northeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea. The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron predicted a 60% chance of favorable weather early during the launch window, increasing to 90% by about 4:30 a.m. The National Weather Service warns of a chance of overnight showers...

Source: Visit website The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe such an object like this up close. Critically, the interaction between Apophis and Earth's gravitational pull will offer scientists an unprecedented chance to study the interior of an asteroid. This is fascinating for planetary science, but it also has serious implications for planetary defense. In the future, were such an asteroid on course to strike Earth, an effective plan to deflect it would depend on knowing what the interior looks like. Other choices, including dragging dual space probes out of storage, the Janus spacecraft, and other concepts that were submitted to NASA a year ago as part of a call for ideas, have already been rejected or simply left on the table. As a result, NASA currently has no plans to study what will be the most important asteroid encounter since the format...

Reference: See here In reality, she was a kid in a laboratory when she and 11 other Orange County students took a special VIP tour of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge on June 17. Delaney, who makes science videos on her YouTube channel "Science With Dee" and has more than 175,000 followers, certainly felt right at home. "It was so much fun," the 13-year-old said. "My favorite part was definitely seeing all of the models of the Mars Rovers. Those were super-cool, because they had the very first model to the newest one. It was really cool seeing the comparison." The students all earned the trip based on their work in the 2024 Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Race to Space Reading Challenge . Divided by age group into four levels, the students chart their STEM book-reading progress on an online platform called Beanstack . Anything they read past t...

Source: See here The recent discovery of exoplanet TOI‑5573 b, a miniature Saturn-like planet, gives astronomers a fresh look at how planets can arise around small stars. The newly identified world measures 0.87 times Jupiter's radius yet weighs just 0.35 Jupiter masses, yielding a Saturn‑like bulk density. It orbits an M dwarf that is about 606 light‑years away, every 8.79 days, and at a distance of roughly 0.07 of an astronomical unit from its star. This keeps the planet's dayside near 528 K, which is cool for a gas giant so close in. Rachel B. Fernandes of Pennsylvania State University, and colleagues, confirmed the planet's existence using NASA's TESS photometry plus radial‑velocity work from the Habitable‑zone Planet Finder and NEID spectrographs . The find adds to the sparse catalog of Giant Exoplanets around M‑dwarf Stars (GEMS) , a class with members having a radius of eight to fifteen times Earth's rad...

Read more: Found here Badger Technologies LLC last month launched its Digital Teammate platform, which includes its autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs. The company said its multipurpose robots can enhance employee productivity at retail stores. " Badger Technologies' robots seamlessly integrate computer vision and artificial intelligence to work as a digital teammate alongside employees in complex environments,⁘ stated Emil Martinez, CEO of Badger Technologies. ⁘These robots can extend staff operations and produce critical data that increase efficiencies and improve shopping experiences, creating long-lasting value for our customers.⁘ The Digital Teammate is designed to help people be more productive, not to replace workers, he told  The Robot Report . ⁘It's not any different than a typewriter,⁘ Martinez said. ⁘This can help ensure more human interactions.⁘ Founded in 2002, Badger Technologies said its systems automa...

More details: Found here Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins in the mysterious depths of the outer solar system There⁘s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right now, and it⁘s bigger than any we⁘ve seen before. It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has enraptured astronomers ever since its discovery in 2021 . The hulking object, sometimes jovially called a ⁘megacomet,⁘ is 100 times bigger than most comets we see in the solar system. And now we⁘re learning more about it than ever before as it zooms toward its closest approach to our sun in 2031. In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on June 12, Nathan Roth of American University and his colleagues report the first conclusive detection of carbon monoxide on the megacomet. That⁘s a crucial finding because...

Read more: Found here The term 'unidentified flying object' was coined in the 1940s as an upgrade of sorts on 'flying saucers,' which the United States Air Force (USAF) had originally used to describe unknown objects in the sky before discovering they were not all saucer-like in shape. Witnesses claim they saw several flying discs release strange materials, with one claiming he was later contacted by "men in black" and warned to stay silent. An extra element to what became a classic UFO stereotype. Debris discovered near Roswell in New Mexico was originally claimed to have been from a 'flying disc,' but was ultimately reported to be from a weather balloon by the U.S. military. Despite the official explanation, the Roswell Incident, coming just a month after the Kenneth Arnold Sighting and Maury Island Incident, meant UFO conspiracy theories grew significantly. Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, two...

More details: Found here A new startup called Lux Aeterna wants to change this. The Denver-based company, which is coming out of stealth today, has designed a reusable satellite called Delphi that it aims to launch ⁘ and land ⁘ in 2027. If successful, it could help slash the cost to get satellite payloads into space. It would also make the process far more flexible than it is today, since satellites are designed to stay in orbit for years and essentially can't be modified for other uses. These attributes have already piqued the interest of the Department of Defense, which has made low-Earth orbit an important part of the United States' military strategy. Venture capitalists have also taken notice — and written checks. The startup's pitch was attractive enough to generate $4 million in pre-seed funding, led by Space Capital and including other early-stage funds like Dynamo Ventures and Mission One Capital. Founder and...

Read more: See here A new study has found that solar flares—sudden bursts of energy from stars—can trigger short-term weather changes on planets far beyond our solar system. The research, published in The Astronomical Journal, offers some of the clearest evidence so far that space weather can affect a planet's climate within just a few days. These findings may also help scientists better understand how solar activity influences Earth's own atmosphere. The study was led by a global team of scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, NASA, the Florida Institute of Technology, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and the University of Oxford. Using advanced computer simulations, the researchers looked at how solar flares might affect the climate of Earth-like planets that orbit very close to their stars. One such example is TRAPPIST-1e, a rocky planet that always keeps the same side facing its sun—similar to how the M...

More details: Found here Update: The Launch has been scrubbed due to bad weather. A new target launch date will be announced soon. Blue Origin is preparing to send its next group of passengers on a brief spaceflight high above Earth. Reaching the very edge of space, the six people on board the company's New Shepard spacecraft will be treated to some stellar views and a few minutes of weightlessness after getting off the ground in West Texas. When they land, the space tourists will join an exclusive club of more than 60 others who have embarked on a similar expensive venture across 12 previous human spaceflights Blue Origin has provided. Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, doesn't sell tickets for the public to watch a rocket launch in person. But areas around the launch site, including a town just south of it, may provide a few ideal places to catch the liftoff and spaceflight. Here's everything to know ab...

Source: Found here Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts is running for one of Texas' United States Senate seats, he announced today (June 23). Virts piloted Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-130 mission in 2010, and served as ISS commander in 2015. He logged more than 212 cumulative days in space before his retirement from NASA, and has since remained in the public light through his books, public speaking and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) outreach. As Senator, Virts plans to use his experiences in space to emphasize cooperation and problem-solving on Earth. "From orbit, Earth takes your breath away," Virts says at the start of the video. "But amidst that beauty, danger is never far. You learn fast that chaos is lethal, so you adapt, you solve problems and you lead because your lives depend on it," he said. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and mor...

Reference: See here Following a series of delays, SpaceX, Axiom Space, and NASA are now targeting 2:31 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 25, (11:31 p.m. PT on Tuesday, June 24) for the launch of Axiom Space⁘s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The new schedule was announced on Monday night. The Ax-4 mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the four-person crew traveling on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft after launching on a Falcon 9 rocket. The Crew Dragon is expected to dock with the orbital outpost at about 7 a.m. ET (4 a.m. PT) on Thursday, June 26. The Ax-4 crew comprises Commander Peggy Whitson, a veteran NASA astronaut and Axiom Space⁘s director of human spaceflight; Shubhanshu Shukla from the Indian Space Research Organisation, making his first spaceflight; S⁘awosz Uzna⁘ski-Wi⁘niewski, a European Space Agency project astronaut from Poland a...

Source: Found here This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers. Earlier this year there were briefly fears that the 60-meter-wide (200-foot-wide) asteroid called 2024 YR4, which is big enough to level a city, would strike Earth on December 22, 2032. It was given the highest chance—3.1%—of hitting our home planet that scientists have ever measured for such a giant space rock. However, the odds that it will crash into the moon have risen to 4.3%, according to data from the James Webb Space Telescope in May. A new preprint study, which has not been peer-reviewed, is the first to es...

Read more: Found here The European Space Agency (ESA) has provided an interesting prediction for when humans will be packing up and leaving Earth for good to go and live on Mars. It may seem like it's a lifetime away, but big names in the space realm such as Elon Musk are planning to have humans landing on Mars by the turn of the decade . Despite routine tests for SpaceX's Starship going horribly wrong this week , Musk reaffirmed his intention to send one million humans to live on Mars by 2050, which works out at a rate of 40,000 people moving there every year until then. While these wild predictions seem a bit out of reach at the moment, the ESA has published its own new report titled ' Technology 2040: A Vision For The European Space Agency'. The agency predicts that by 2040, there will be a 'resilient European presence' across the solar system, calling space a 'territory' instead of a 'fron...

More details: See here 'Revolutionary' tiny robots could help end Britain's pothole misery by inspecting leaky water pipes without having to dig up roads, researchers say. The futuristic miniature machines - called ⁘Pipebots⁘ - are the same size as a toy car, and can track down leaks underground. Scientists now how the pipebots could ⁘revolutionise⁘ how water infrastructure is managed, and help save some of the three billion litres of water lost through leaky pipes everyday day in England and Wales . Experts from the University of Sheffield say the robots they developed can explore water pipes to check for cracks and faults, identifying potential issues before they even become a problem. Road works to repair utilities cost the UK economy at least £4 billion per year, and can cause disruption to businesses and residents. Much of the UK's ageing water network dates back to the Victorian era, and totals more than 215,00...

Read more: See here H uman civilization has always wanted to explore all the limits of the universe. This is a feeling that has haunted humans throughout history. Not to know the limits of the entire universe, but to discover those of the solar system, NASA launched the two Voyager probes in 1977. And it could be said that they fulfilled the objective for which they were launched, as they surpassed the known limits, reaching the so-called wall of fire where temperatures are extreme, reaching up to 30,000 degrees Kelvin. It is worth mentioning that there are many ways in which the boundary of the solar system can be defined, such as the Oort cloud or the Sun's gravitational influence, where it is still possible to return to an area close to our star. However, one of the best known is the constant stream of charged particles that the Sun emits, which can reach three times farther than Pluto. As NASA defined it: "This forms ...

Reference: Visit website EERIE new footage reportedly taken by the US military has captured a never-before-seen disc-shaped UFO mysteriously darting through the air. Independent journalist Jeremy Corbell leaked the video and said he was stunned by the ⁘implications⁘ of the jaw-dropping sight. He published the video on his social media on Tuesday, which he claims captures the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) soaring through the clouds. Most UFOs caught on camera have a sort of pill shape , but this one looks straight out of a science-fiction movie. The video was taken by the military on November 23, 2020, and it was released after Corbell spent years verifying the footage with inside sources. They said the craft ⁘displayed abrupt movement and intelligent control⁘ as it can be seen flying to the right before suddenly changing directions. The UFO also noticeably doesn't give off any heat signatures or signs of therma...

Read more: Found here PARIS — Portal Space Systems will create a second factory to scale up production of high-performance in-space vehicles as it gears up for initial test flights in 2026. The company announced at the Paris Air Show June 17 that it will establish a second factory, five kilometers from its current facilities in Bothell, Washington, for its Supernova vehicle. The new factory, spanning more than 4,600 square meters, is scheduled to open in late 2026. The second facility will allow Portal to produce one Supernova spacecraft a month starting in 2027. Supernova is the spacecraft the company is developing that uses solar thermal propulsion to provide both high thrust and high delta V, or change in velocity. "By expanding our footprint in Bothell, we're doubling down on local talent, proximity to core operations, and a growing aerospace ecosystem supported by state leadership," Jeff Thornburg, chief executi...

More details: Visit website Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch six people to suborbital space on Saturday (June 21), and you can watch the action live. The mission ⁘ known as NS-33, because it will be the 33rd overall flight of the company's New Shepard vehicle ⁘ is scheduled to lift off from Blue Origin's West Texas site on Saturday during a window that opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 a.m. local Texas time). Blue Origin will stream the launch on its website , and Space.com will air the webcast as well if, as expected, the company makes it available. Coverage will begin 30 minutes before the launch window opens. The people going up on Saturday are Allie and Carl Kuehner, a husband and wife who are both into conservation and exploration; philanthropist and beekeeper Leland Larson; entrepreneur Freddie Rescigno, Jr.; lawyer and author Owolabi Salis; and retired attorney Jim Sitkin. ⁘ Katy Perry and Gayle King l...

Reference: Found here Six more humans are preparing to launch to the edge of space on Blue Origin's NS-33 mission . According to the company, the liftoff is scheduled at 7 pm IST on June 21 from West Texas in what would be its third crew mission of 2025. As always, the New Shepard Booster will liftoff with the New Shepard spacecraft on top and take the astronauts beyond the Karman Line - the internationally recognised boundary of space 100 km above surface. Each of the Blue Origin's crew missions have lasted no longer than 12 minutes. You can watch the launch live on Blue Origin's website. The coverage will begin 30 minutes prior to liftoff. The NS-33 crew has five men and one woman with a diverse background. First is Allie Kuehner, an environmentalist and adventurer; her husband Carl Kuehner, Chairman of a real estate company; philanthropist and entrepreneur Leland Larson; Italian-American entrepreneur Freddie Rescigno...

Read more: Visit website The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface — what NASA calls "hyper close." It's the third and final time it has performed the feat, following similar achievements on Dec. 24, 2024, and March 22, 2025. Parker launched on Aug. 12, 2018, and has since conducted 23 perihelions — close passes — of the sun, getting to within 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) twice before today's repeat performnce. For scale, that's four yards from the end zone if the distance between Earth and the sun was the length of an American football field, according to mission scientists . During this final perihelion of the mission, the probe will be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour (690,000 kilometers per hour). According to NASA, that's fast enough to get from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in ...

More details: Visit website One of SpaceX's Starship rockets exploded on a test stand in Texas late on Wednesday night, as the company prepared for the tenth test flight of the heavy-lift rocket system. SpaceX said ⁘all personnel are safe and accounted for⁘ in a post on X , and claimed there are ⁘no hazards to residents in surrounding communities.⁘ The company said in a later update on Thursday that an initial analysis suggests the explosion was caused by a failure of of a ⁘pressurized tank known as a COPV, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel⁘ in the Starship's nosecone. The enormous explosion caused damage to the area surrounding the test stand, according to SpaceX. But the company said there are no reported injuries. SpaceX was preparing to perform a ⁘static fire⁘ of the Starship's six Raptor engines, and so the area around the rocket had been cleared prior to the explosion. SpaceX has spent the last few years a...

Reference: Found here The asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a collision course with Earth , may still pose a threat to the planet. There is still a chance the space rock could smash into the moon, and the resulting explosion could shower Earth with a cloud of satellite-destroying shrapnel. The chance of a collision with the moon , however, has slowly been increasing, and now stands at 4.3 per cent based on the last observations taken before the asteroid flew out of view of our telescopes until 2028. And according to Paul Wiegert at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and his colleagues, such a collision could still cause significant damage to Earth's satellites. "We were a little bit surprised at the possibility of there being a substantial amount of material at the Earth," says Wiegert. "Intuitively, the Earth is actually quite a small target when seen from the moon, and so your intuition...

Read more: See here Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, June 18, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-18 mission. Original story: Night owl alert: SpaceX is targeting an early morning Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Climbing to the northeast, the rocket will lift a payload of 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit. Expect pristine launch weather. The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecast called for 95% odds of "go for launch" conditions, with cumulus clouds from isolated coastal showers posing the lone threat. No Brevard County sonic booms should occur from this Starlink 10-18 mission at Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea just more than eight minutes after liftoff. The SpaceX Starlink liftoff try comes on the heels of United...

Source: Found here CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency released the eclipse pictures at the Paris Air Show on Monday. Launched late last year, the orbiting duo have churned out simulated solar eclipses since March while zooming tens of thousands of miles (kilometers) above Earth. Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims its telescope at the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere that forms a crown or halo of light. It's an intricate, prolonged dance requiring extreme precision by the cube-shaped spacecraft, less than 5 feet (1.5 meters) in size. Their flying accuracy needs to be within a mere millimeter, the thickness of a fingernail. This meticulous positio...

Source: Visit website Mount Everest, one of the go-to examples of a "thing that is large", looks like a tiny hillock in comparison to other mountains of the Solar System. While Everest stands at 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) tall, the two tallest mountains orbiting the Sun reach over 20,000 meters (65,600 feet) in elevation. The second-tallest mountain structure lies not on a planet, but on Iapetus, one of Saturn's ridiculous number of moons . This tidally-locked moon is notable for the stark difference between its hemispheres, with one side much darker than the other. "The second most notable feature of Iapetus is its 'equatorial ridge,' a chain of 6-mile (10-km) high mountains girdling the moon's equator. On the anti-Saturnian side of Iapetus, the ridge appears to break up and distinct, partially bright mountains are observed. The Voyager I and Voyager II encounters provided the first knowledge of thes...

More details: See here Researchers in the US have suggested there is a 40 percent chance a ninth planet could exist in our solar system. Planet Nine, or Planet X, which will hopefully be renamed if its existence is ever 100 percent proven, is said to potentially lie beyond orbit of Neptune and dwarf planet Pluto, further out in the Kuiper Belt. While we've all come to learn the pneumonic My (Mercury), Very (Venus), Educated (Earth), Mother (Mars), Just (Jupiter), Served (Saturn), Us (Uranus), Noodles (Neptune), we may soon require an updated version, if the researchers at Rice University in Texas are to be believed. If there is a Planet Nine, it's said to be 100 times further from the Sun than Earth, and between five and ten times the mass of our own planet. That's between 46.5 billion to 65.1 billion miles away from us, and temperatures could be as low as -245°C since it's so far from the Sun. A new study weig...

Source: See here Depending on your knowledge of conspiracy theories about aliens and UFOs you've most likely heard of Area 51 in Nevada, the secretive government facility in the desert where evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth is kept. However, there is another location that is steeped in just as much mystery and alien folklore called Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The government facility was home to the Blue Book Project, a US Air Force program to systematically investigate UFOs that ran from 1952 to 1969, and said to be where debris recovered from the Roswell was taken as well as alien bodies. The conspiracy theories around Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio date back to the 1940s and the supposed UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico. This helped fuel conspiracy theories around the incident which were further stoked in the 1980s by the government itself to hide the top-sec...

Read more: See here Shelli Brunswick is CEO ⁘ Founder of SB Global LLC and an international keynote speaker on tech used for the betterment of humanity. Among the many innovations featured, the Cardi/o Monitor is a noninvasive, wall-mounted system that continuously tracks vital signs like heart rate and respiration without touching the patient. Developed using NASA's expertise in remote sensing, this technology, once critical for monitoring astronaut health in space, is now revolutionizing home healthcare, offering patients greater freedom and clinicians earlier warnings of potential problems. Under the leadership of Dr. Nicole Wagner, LambdaVision is revolutionizing vision restoration through protein-based retinal implants, and the unique environment of space is playing a critical role. On Earth, gravity interferes with the delicate layering of proteins necessary to build the implant, introducing imperfections that can compromi...

More details: Found here Halfway to a hundred: The 50th orbital rocket launch of 2025 from Florida's Space Coast streaked across the morning sky Friday, June 13th, maintaining this year's unprecedented pace thus far. SpaceX sent up the Friday-the-13th Falcon 9 rocket at 11:29 a.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, lifting another 23 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit. Last year, 93 rockets launched from the Brevard County Space Force installation and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center, setting an all-time annual record . SpaceX's Falcon 9 first-stage booster notched its 21st flight during the June 13 launch, adding to its lengthy mission list: Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER-B, USSF-124, Bluebird 1-5 and 16 previous Starlink missions. SpaceX's ability to reuse rocket boosters has driven its launch prices down, transforming the industry. Following stage separation, the b...

Source: Found here Jeff Bezos 's space exploration company, Blue Origin , has announced the crew for its upcoming space tourism mission. The mission, dubbed NS-33, marks the 33rd launch of the company's reusable and autonomous New Shepard vehicle. It shall also be the company's 13th human spaceflight expedition. They are Allie Kuehner, an environmentalist, adventurer, and explorer; her husband Carl Kuehner, a conservationist; philanthropist, gardener, and beekeeper Leland Larson. Freddie Rescigno Jr, the founder, president, and CEO of Commodity Cables and a competitive golfer; financial consultant and lawyer Owolabi Salis; and retired attorney and lifelong adventurer Jim Sitkin will also join. The New Shepard flights last for 10-12 minutes from liftoff to the touchdown of the vehicle's crew capsule. During this brief time, passengers get to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see Earth's curvatu...

Reference: Found here PARIS — NASA says a private astronaut mission could launch to the International Space Station as soon as June 19 as it works to understand an air leak on the Russian segment of the station. In a June 14 statement, NASA said it is working with Axiom Space and SpaceX on "reviewing launch opportunities" for the Ax-4 mission, with the earliest such opportunity on June 19. The mission was set to launch June 11 but was postponed the evening before to correct a liquid oxygen leak in one of the engines in the Falcon 9's first stage. That repair appeared to be ready to support a launch as soon as June 13, but NASA announced June 12 it put the launch on hold to allow the agency and Roscosmos to assess a "new pressure signature" in a Russian ISS module after recent work there . The concern appears to revolve around the condition of the seals in the hatch that, if degraded, could pose additional p...

Reference: Visit website Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Friday, June 13, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 12-26 mission. Original story: Get ready for another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch this morning — but watch for cumulus clouds to build as the clock approaches noon along Florida's Space Coast. Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of SpaceX's Starlink 12-26 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron predicted odds of "go for launch" conditions will deteriorate throughout the morning to 60% by shortly after noon. Cumulus clouds pose the primary threat, with the atmosphere supporting "onshore-moving showers during the night and morning hours along the coast," the squadron's forecast said The Falcon 9 will deploy a payload of 23 Starlink internet satellites into low-Ear...

More details: Found here Remember a few months ago we told you about a big chunk of rock called 2024 YR4 ? Well, the asteroid that goes by that name has just had its odds increased for crashing into our Moon. By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero , and 2024 YR4 was officially cleared from the "worry list." But just when it seemed the drama was over, astronomers turned their attention to the Moon. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope, gathered in May 2025, nudged the odds of a lunar impact up to 4.3% , from a previous 3.8%. That's still low, but enough to keep things interesting. At roughly 174 to 220 feet long – about the height of a 10-story building – 2024 YR4 wouldn't endanger the Moon's orbit. But if it hits, the resulting crater could be visible from Earth with the right telescope , and would offer a rare real-time look at how these features...

More details: See here Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today. "When it comes to producing ultraviolet light, these small galaxies punch well above their weight," said Isak Wold, an assistant research scientist at Catholic University of America in Washington and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Our analysis of these tiny but mighty galaxies is 10 times more sensitive than previous studies, and shows they existed in sufficient numbers and packed enough ultraviolet power to drive this cosmic renovation." Wold discussed his findings Wednesday at the 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Anchorage, Alaska. The study took advantage of existing imaging collected by Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrare...