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NASA Open to Hubble Reboost — But Only If Operations Costs Come Down First Published: June 7, 2026, 14:26 UTC NASA is open to extending the Hubble Space Telescope’s life with a commercially provided reboost, but the agency needs to first figure out how to reduce the observatory’s $98.8 million annual operating cost before signing […]
ISS Crew Briefly Shelters in Dragon as Zvezda Module Leak Worsens Five crew members aboard the International Space Station were ordered to shelter inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Friday morning as two Russian cosmonauts attempted repairs on a worsening air leak in the Zvezda service module’s transfer […]
Webb’s New Image of Orion Molecular Cloud Reveals Every Stage of Star Birth in One Stunning Frame The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a remarkably comprehensive view of the star formation process, capturing every stage from collapsing gas clouds to fully formed young stars in a single, deeply […]
The SETI Institute has completed the most extensive radio search ever conducted on an interstellar object, scanning comet 3I/ATLAS across a broad swath of the radio spectrum for any sign of extraterrestrial technology. After analyzing nearly 74 million narrowband radio signals over seven hours of observations, the result is […]
First Sugar Ever Found in Interstellar Space — A Four-Carbon Molecule That Could Rewrite the Origin of Life The Galactic Center molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027, where erythrulose was detected, imaged by the IRAM 30m telescope. Credit: IRAM / Jimenez-Serra et al. Astronomers have detected a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space […]
From a Balcony in the Netherlands: Astrophotographer Captures 548 Galaxies in a Single Frame An amateur astrophotographer has accomplished what sounds impossible: capturing 548 individual galaxies in a single image — from the balcony of his home in a small Dutch village. Ing. Cornelis Van Zuilen, an astrophotographer based […]
Sun Erupts with 3 Colossal Solar Flares in Less Than 24 Hours — G3 Storm Watch Issued, Aurora Chances Surge The Sun is putting on a spectacular show this week. Active Region 4455 — a magnetically complex sunspot cluster rotating across the Earth-facing solar disk — unleashed three powerful […]
China’s Long March 12B Rocket Launches Without Warning — A New Falcon 9-Class Contender Emerges China’s rapidly expanding commercial space sector delivered a genuine surprise this week. On June 1, 2026, the Long March 12B — a 72-meter-tall, kerosene-burning rocket strikingly similar in concept to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 — […]
Meteor Explosion Over New England Packed Power of 300 Tons of TNT, NASA Confirms A blinding daytime fireball that lit up the skies over the Northeastern United States last week was confirmed by NASA to be a meteor explosion releasing energy equivalent to roughly 300 tons of TNT — […]
