🌠 Mars and Regulus: A Celestial Encounter You Won’t Want to Miss! On June 16–17, 2025, get ready for a breathtaking cosmic display — Mars will pass strikingly close to Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo. This rare alignment creates a dazzling contrast in the night sky: the fiery red glow of Mars…
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are evaluating potential launch windows for Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with no earlier target than Thursday, June 19. The mission was delayed on June 12 as NASA continued to coordinate with Roscosmos to assess recent repair efforts addressing minor leaks…
This tranquil spiral galaxy holds evidence of a violent past. Captured in this 2023 image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy IC 758 lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. At first glance, IC 758 appears calm — its soft blue spiral arms gracefully wrap around a faintly glowing…
NASA’s PUNCH mission (short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) has just shared its first-ever images of massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. These stunning visuals were unveiled on Tuesday at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The newly released images, compiled into a video, capture…
