🇦🇺 Australia
First Flyby: Large Magellanic Cloud Is a Milky Way Newcomer
The Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's most massive satellite galaxy, appears to be a first time visitor.
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Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak
Halley's Comet debris brings pre-dawn shooting stars in early May. NASA highlights the Eta Aquarids as one of May 2026's skywatching events.
Best before dawn; darker skies help, and moonlight may reduce faint meteors.
Event source: NASA Science
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🇮🇹 Italy
13 European satellites reach orbit in single rideshare launch
Thirteen European satellites hitched a single ride to space on Sunday, 3 May, launching from California aboard
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Rare Comet Visible From New Zealand for First Time in 170,000 Years
A comet that last passed Earth 170,000 years ago is now visible in the night sky over New Zealand, giving star
🇺🇸 United States
Hubble Captures a Spiral Galaxy 77 Million Light Years Away
A galaxy 77 million light years from Earth is so packed with stars that it glows yellow at its core and pale b
🇺🇸 United States
Hubble Helped Identify One of the Darkest Known Galaxies
NASA says astronomers used Hubble, ESA's Euclid observatory and the Subaru Telescope to help identify one of t
🇦🇺 Australia
Goldfields Prospector Found 800,000-Year-Old Cosmic Glass
A prospector in Western Australia's Goldfields found a rare australite, a small piece of glassy cosmic debris
🇺🇸 United States
Dark Comets Now Look Like Two Hidden Families
Dark comets sit in one of the stranger corners of solar-system science. They look like asteroids, without brig
🇺🇸 United States
Parker Solar Probe Saw a Solar Explosion From Inside the Action
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has given scientists a rare close look at magnetic reconnection, the explosive proce
🇦🇺 Australia
ESA Switched On a New Deep-Space Dish in Western Australia
ESA's newest deep-space antenna has entered normal operations at New Norcia in Western Australia, strengthenin
🇪🇺 Europe
Graphene Aerogel Jumped When Light Hit It in Zero-G
Graphene aerogel is already one of those materials that sounds invented for science fiction: ultralight, porou
🇺🇸 United States
Tech Firms Plan Orbital Data Centers to Solve Earth's Energy Crisis
Some of the world's biggest technology companies are looking beyond Earth to solve a growing problem: data cen
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Baking a 35-Meter Parachute for Mars at 10,000 Times Cleaner Than Your Phone
A 35-meter parachute destined for Mars was just baked in an oven in the Netherlands to make it at least 10,000
🇺🇸 United States
Artemis II Crew Returns After Record Moon Flight
NASA's Artemis II crew is back on Earth after a nearly 10-day flight around the Moon. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glo
🇺🇸 United States
Curiosity Finds New Organic Molecules in Mars Rock
NASA's Curiosity rover has found seven organic molecules that had not been identified on Mars before. The resu
