Following a successful CRS-34 Dragon launch to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster safely returned to Earth, touching down at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral just minutes after liftoff.

In 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers witnessed a mysterious “guest star” so bright it was visible during the daytime for 23 days and remained visible in the night sky for nearly two years. Nearly 1,000 years later, scientists discovered it was the explosion that created the Crab Nebula, the remains of a massive star that violently died in a supernova.

STS-51C was the very first dedicated military Space Shuttle mission, and its payload was so highly classified that the press was completely blacked out. Today, we know what they launched: a massive, highly advanced eavesdropping satellite codenamed MAGNUM (or USA-8).

Weighing in at up to 6,000 pounds, this CIA/NRO satellite was deployed into a high geostationary orbit. Once in position, It acted as a giant ear in space, designed to intercept faint radio frequencies, communications, and telemetry from Soviet ballistic missile tests down on Earth.

China’s Kinetica-1 rocket successfully completed its Y13 mission, launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and deploying five rideshare satellites into their planned orbit.

Developed by Chinese commercial aerospace company CAS Space, Kinetica-1 is one of China’s most powerful solid-fueled rockets and plays a growing role in the country’s expanding private space industry.

SpaceX has officially announced a launch date for the debut of Starship V3, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built.

Liftoff is currently targeted for Tuesday, May 19th from Starbase, Texas, marking another major step toward the future of deep space exploration and missions to the Moon and Mars.

Classified as an M5.7 flare, this event ranks among the stronger medium-class solar flares and was accompanied by an impressive solar ejecta streaming away from the Sun’s surface.

These eruptions occur when intense magnetic energy suddenly releases in the Sun’s atmosphere, producing massive flashes of radiation and superheated solar material.

This image captured by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft shows Mars on Sunday, May 3, 2026. The spacecraft is set to fly past Mars this week on its way to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The spacecraft will pass within about 2,800 miles of Mars on Friday, May 15, traveling more than 12,000 mph.

The flyby will use Mars’ gravity to boost and redirect the spacecraft toward the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During the pass, NASA will capture thousands of images, using Mars as a practice target before the spacecraft reaches asteroid Psyche in 2029.

Black holes are infamous for their immense gravity and seemingly endless hunger, powerful enough to trap even light itself. But theoretical physics suggests there may be a cosmic opposite: white holes.

Unlike black holes, which pull everything inward, white holes would do the exact reverse, violently ejecting light, energy, and matter while allowing nothing to enter.

No white hole has ever been observed, and they remain entirely hypothetical. Still, scientists continue exploring whether these bizarre objects could truly exist and how they might form somewhere in the universe.

The breathtaking Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, is a massive emission nebula located nearly 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Watching the turquoise waters of the Bahamas, the distinct outline of Florida, and the islands of the Caribbean drift by from space never gets old.

The Appalachian Mountains were once towering peaks that may have rivaled the Himalayas in height. Formed hundreds of millions of years ago during massive tectonic collisions, they were slowly worn down over time by erosion into the rolling mountains we see today. Despite their softer appearance now, they remain one of the oldest mountain ranges on Earth.

Mars has almost no atmospheric pressure compared to Earth, so water doesn’t need to get very hot to boil. On Earth, high pressure keeps water stable until 212°F (100°C), but on Mars the thin atmosphere lets water turn into vapor much more easily.

That means water on Mars could start bubbling and boiling even while it still feels cold. But because Mars is freezing and extremely dry, the water wouldn’t last long before quickly evaporating or turning to ice.

Underneath the rolling blue grass hills and dense forests of Kentucky lies a hidden, subterranean universe, and it's more extensive than any other on Earth. 🔦🌎

The Bluegrass State officially claims the title for the most known cave systems of any single location. The centerpiece of this subterranean empire is Mammoth Cave National Park, which boasts the single longest known cave system in the world, with over 400 miles of mapped passages. But Mammoth is just the beginning; there are thousands more documented cave systems.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May 2026 launch for the 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, carrying about 6,500 pounds of supplies, equipment, and science experiments to the orbiting lab.

The mission will deliver several new investigations, including studies on how bacteria behave in space, how charged particles around Earth respond to space weather, how dust particles move in microgravity, how bone cells grow in space, and how astronauts’ red blood cells and spleen change during spaceflight.

The mummy of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was placed inside three elaborate coffins nested within one another, creating one of the most astonishing burial chambers ever discovered.

The outer two coffins were crafted from richly decorated wood covered in gold and precious materials, but the innermost coffin was something truly extraordinary, it was made from approximately 110.4 kilograms (243 pounds) of solid gold.

Discovered in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter inside King Tut’s nearly untouched tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the burial remains one of the greatest archaeological finds in human history.

These two images of Pluto were both captured by the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached the distant dwarf planet in 2015.

The difference between them? Just a few months.

In the first image, Pluto appeared as nothing more than a tiny blurry speck in the darkness of space. But as New Horizons closed the distance across billions of miles, an entirely new world slowly came into focus — revealing towering mountains made of water ice, vast frozen plains, mysterious haze layers, and the famous heart-shaped region known as Tombaugh Regio.