On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 5:49 p.m. ET, the Sun unleashed a powerful flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which continuously monitors the Sun, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are intense bursts of energy from the Sun, and they can have real effects here on Earth. These powerful events can disrupt radio…
June 2025 Edition Most materials begin their journey in a fluid or semi-fluid state, and the way heat and mass move through that fluid during solidification plays a key role in shaping the final material and its properties. Scientists pay close attention to these dynamics because even small variations in heat flow or mass transport…
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 As Curiosity nears the end of the Altadena drill campaign, the rover continues its exploration of Martian bedrock within the intriguing boxwork structures on Mount Sharp. Following the successful delivery of powdered rock…
🌠 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…
