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…
Space isn’t a one-nation dream—it’s a global mission. From the United States to India, China to Europe, dozens of countries operate their own space agencies, each contributing to human progress beyond Earth. Here’s a list of the major space agencies around the world, their biggest achievements, and why they matter in the cosmic race. 1….
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…
📅 June 11, 2025🕒 Peak Brightness at 3:44 PM BST (visible after sunset)📍 Visible from Bangladesh Tonight, look to the eastern horizon after sunset to witness June’s Pink Moon—a stunning, oversized, golden full moon that will light up the sky with surreal beauty. While the moment of full brightness occurs in the afternoon, the most…
Spotted two bright dots shining side by side? It could be planets! Use the free Sky Tonight app to check when to spot them in your city. Also, learn when the next planetary pairing will be visible in the sky by reading this article. What is planetary conjunction? In simple words, a planetary conjunction occurs…
Emil Andronic from Hemel Hempstead, U.K. The unusual shape of NGC 3718 is a barred spiral galaxy with an unusual, twisted shape —likely due to interactions with nearby NGC 3729. Lying around 120 million light-yearsaway, it’s also listed as the 214th entry in Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Thisimager took 37⅓ hours of LRGB…
The seventh flight test of Starship and Super Heavy flew with ambitious goals, aiming to successfully repeat the corecapability of returning and catching a booster while launching an upgraded design of the upper stage. While not everytest objective was completed, the lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable asStarship…
