Space Webb telescope found frozen molecules linked to life orbiting a star 160,000 light-years away and scientists say it rewrites what we know about life’s origins by Carlos Albero Rojas June 9, 2026
Space A beetle solves a navigation problem in total darkness that even our most advanced machines still struggle with June 8, 2026
Space Astronomers kept seeing starlight bend in ways that shouldn’t be possible, then they found what was hiding in the Milky Way June 8, 2026
Space NASA found a way to spot deadly algal blooms from space before they reach the shore June 7, 2026
Space NASA lost contact with its Mars spacecraft during a routine flyby and has never heard from it again June 7, 2026
Space NASA’s SPHEREx telescope reveals a hidden landscape of water ice inside one of the Milky Way’s most violent star nurseries June 7, 2026
Space NASA plans 73 moon landings and a permanent lunar base — but its own guide reveals how much is still missing June 6, 2026
Space Hubble catches a spiral galaxy losing its star-forming fuel on a slow, one-way trip through the Virgo Cluster June 6, 2026
Space Astronomers discovered 161 new black hole collisions and found that some of those black holes had already survived a crash before June 6, 2026
Space A billionaire just quietly booked the first private Starship flyby to Mars and nobody knows when it will actually happen June 5, 2026
Space Astronomers studying a mysterious glow near Andromeda discovered a 400,000-year-old stellar ghost still burning from forces no one expected June 4, 2026
Space Jupiter’s gravity shaped the solar system’s first rocky birthplaces, and ancient meteorites are finally proving it June 3, 2026
Space NASA built a jet with no front windshield and a nose longer than most living rooms to quietly break a rule that has stood since 1973 June 3, 2026
Space Fireball over Boston: a three-foot meteor exploded with the force of 300 tons of TNT — and its fragments may have sunk into Cape Cod Bay June 2, 2026
Space A young galaxy 8 billion years ago already looked remarkably like the Milky Way — and a rare Einstein Cross revealed what it really was June 2, 2026
Space A dark matter detector just cornered “chameleons,” the shape-shifting particles physicists think may be hiding the secret of dark energy June 1, 2026
Space Scientists just launched a spacecraft to photograph Earth’s invisible magnetic shield for the first time in history May 31, 2026
Space Strange signals from some of the smallest galaxies near the Milky Way are pointing scientists toward a hidden structure they have been hunting for decades May 31, 2026
Space Astronomers pushed to the edge of the Milky Way expecting emptiness until they found its “dead zone” far closer to Earth than anyone imagined May 31, 2026
Space Beyond Jupiter, a cosmic “planet factory” churned out generations of wildly different worlds for millions of years May 30, 2026
Space Scientists found a hidden chemical fingerprint that life can’t help leaving behind, and now it may become our map to finding aliens May 30, 2026
Space Scientists scanning black hole collisions found one gravitational wave that doesn’t fit, and dark matter could be hiding inside it May 27, 2026
Space TESS data uncovers 27 candidate worlds orbiting two suns at once, using a method that could reshape how we find circumbinary planets May 26, 2026
Space James Webb Space Telescope captures the first daily weather cycle on a distant exoplanet — sandy mornings, clear alien sunsets May 26, 2026
Space America’s “Emerald Isle” sits alone in Lake Michigan, and stargazers are only now rediscovering what Irish fishermen stumbled upon there centuries ago May 26, 2026
Space Neptune’s moon Nereid may be a rare fossil from the solar system’s earliest days, James Webb data reveals May 25, 2026
Space NASA just slingshot past Mars on its way to a bizarre metal world that may be hiding secrets from Earth’s deepest past May 25, 2026
Space After 16 years of silence, NASA’s Fermi telescope finally heard a superluminous supernova speak in gamma rays May 24, 2026
Space Artemis II astronauts saw something behind the moon that left one of them saying “we just went sci-fi” and another in tears May 24, 2026
Space US Space Force launches a program to put missile interceptors in orbit — with a 2028 deadline May 23, 2026
Space Astronomers pinpointed the exact star our entire solar system has been racing toward for billions of years and it’s visible in May May 22, 2026
Space An astronaut scanning for a cargo ship captured something else entirely — a fireball splitting apart over West Africa May 22, 2026
Space Astronomers spent six years chasing a cosmic miracle until they found a supernova so rare it appeared five times at once in the same sky May 22, 2026
Space James Webb telescope maps the universe’s hidden skeleton in greater detail than ever before, tracing 13 billion years of galactic life and death May 21, 2026
Space Satellite megaconstellations are quietly running an “unregulated geoengineering experiment” in Earth’s upper atmosphere May 21, 2026
Space Astronomers discover a new type of ‘cosmic firework’ so strange that it exploded twice in the same place May 21, 2026
Space Hubble spotted a colossal “cosmic hamburger” 40 times wider than our solar system, and astronomers say they’ve never seen a planet nursery this wild May 21, 2026
Space Planetary defense has long been a government problem — a California startup wants to change that before Apophis arrives in 2029 May 20, 2026
Space Ten years, 70,000 stars, and 100 million signals: what the longest SETI search ever conducted finally found May 19, 2026
Space Four astronauts reduced to a few pixels: Earth’s largest steerable telescope photographed humans orbiting the moon from 200,000 miles away May 19, 2026
Space Ancient Antarctic ice is carrying a radioactive fingerprint that could only have come from exploding stars May 19, 2026
Space NASA has confirmed the appearance of a new lake that did not exist 50 years ago and is now releasing methane bubbles into the atmosphere May 15, 2026
Space NASA says a ninth planet beyond Neptune ‘should be there,’ and astronomers believe telescopes may have been capturing signs of it since 1930 May 12, 2026
Space Before humans land on Artemis IV, NASA will send another fleet equipped with cameras to scout the Moon’s surface May 11, 2026
Space Discarded asteroid data may hold the key to reaching Mars in just 33 days, a scientist found by accident May 8, 2026
Space Artemis III slips to late 2027, squeezing the timeline for NASA’s first crewed moon landing since Apollo May 6, 2026
Space NASA returned to a strange “hand” spinning in deep space until its extreme power began revealing something scientists still can’t fully explain May 3, 2026
Space A strange ‘cosmic pomegranate’ is firing perfect spheres of gas at extreme speed, and NASA says it shouldn’t even exist May 2, 2026
Space Scientists discovered an Einstein cross hiding stars older than the galaxy itself that shouldn’t exist May 1, 2026
Space An antimatter “atom” just diffracted like a wave for the first time and scientists think it could help test gravity’s deepest mystery April 29, 2026
Space NASA astronomers spotted a cosmic object splitting apart and now they can’t explain why it didn’t explode first April 29, 2026
Space A strange square structure was spotted beneath Mars, and scientists are only now revealing what it really was April 28, 2026
Space These small, fast-moving objects are hiding in plain sight, and Rubin Observatory is about to uncover millions of them April 26, 2026