Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a stunning planet parade through June. Here’s when to see it
Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show.
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Meteor streaks across the sky above big observatory | Space photo of the day for June 5, 2026
Searing across the night sky, a meteor puts on a spectacular show above Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory.
12 of the weirdest ‘Masters of the Universe’ characters
By the power of… what the hell is that? If you thought the patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina were strange, they’ve got nothing on He-Man and Skeletor’s entourages.
Most exoplanets might be ‘soot factories,’ scientists say: ‘Like you have a natural diesel engine’
A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the soot produced by combustion engines.
Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing by Gary Eason © CC BY NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of the giant planet on May 12, 2024. Citizen scientist Gary Eason made this image…
NASA’s dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It’s not the only probe in the Mars morgue
NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here’s the fate that awaits the probe.
A rainbow patchwork quilt shows agriculture from space | Space photo of the day for June 4, 2026
A rainbow blanket of patchwork colors sprawls across South Africa in this new composite image created using data from NASA’s latest Earth-observing mission.
Our choice for the best deep-space viewing telescope — now with $200 off, this telescope deal is worth grabbing fast
Expert tester rated the Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope with an impressive review and it’s now at its best price of the year in this early Amazon Prime Day deal.
Blue Origin says New Glenn rocket will launch again ‘before the end of the year’ after explosion
After its rocket explosion, Blue Origin wants to complete repairs and put another New Glenn on the launchpad before the end of 2026, according to CEO Dave Limp. That’s very ambitious.
Journey to the Center of the Virgo Cluster
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88). ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 29, 2026, is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years.…