Space News & Blog Articles

Tune into the SpaceZE News Network to stay updated on industry news from around the world.

How do baby planets grow? Study of 30 stellar nurseries sheds new light

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream

Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream

Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

Giant telescope mirror gets a cleaning | Space photo of the day for June 17, 2025

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.

50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."

SpaceX launch from California sends 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.

SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after sunset on June 16, 2025, to begin the Starlink 15-9 mission. Image: SpaceX

Update June 17, 1:35 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.

Continue reading

The Mother of All Meteor Showers Could Threaten Satellites

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it still might impact the Moon in 2032. The impact debris could threaten satellites and trigger an extraordinarily stunning meteor shower.

Continue reading

SpaceX, NASA target June 19 for launch of private Ax-4 astronauts after ISS leak repairs

Leaks aboard the International Space Station, as well as on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, delayed Axiom's next private astronaut mission, but the crew now has a target launch date of June 19.

Types of Galaxies

Galaxies are vast systems of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. Astronomers classify them into several types based on their shape and structure. Here's a breakdown of the main types of galaxies:

Continue reading

Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet review

There's a good reason the Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet has been around since 2021: Few sets are as striking as this.

Star-forming cloud Chamaeleon I looks like a cosmic masterpiece in new Dark Energy Camera image (video)

Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young stars in this artwork by nature captured by the Dark Energy Camera.

Fujifilm X-T50 review

The Fujifilm X-T50, with its powerful 40.2-MP sensor and excellent creative functionality, is a great beginner camera for astrophotography.

Behold! 1st images of artificial solar eclipse captured by ESA's Proba-3 mission

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled.

Amateur Astronomy Outreach in Saint Lucia with LUNAA Journeys

LUNAA Journeys seeks to make the island of Saint Lucia the astronomy hub of the Caribbean.

Continue reading

NASA's PUNCH Mission Captured Images of a Huge Solar Eruption

In March 2025, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched into orbit to monitor the Sun's outer atmosphere to reveal more about solar wind. Developed and led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), this constellation consists of four microsatellites that observe the Sun's corona and heliosphere using continuous 3D deep-field imaging. While completing its commission phase, the Wide Field Imagers (WFIs) aboard the four PUNCH spacecraft captured high-resolution images of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) in greater detail than any previous mission.

Continue reading

Very Massive Stars Expel More Matter Than Previously Thought

Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically has masses about 100 times that of our own Sun, are critical components in our understanding of the formation of important astronomical structures like black holes and supernovae. However, there are some observed characteristics of VMSs that don’t fit the expected behavior based on the best models we have of them. In particular, they hover around a relatively limited band of temperatures, which are hard to replicate with typical stellar evolution models. A new paper from Kendall Shepherd and their co-authors at the Institute for Advanced Study (SISSA) in Italy describes a series of new models based on updated solar winds that better fit the observations of VMSs in their natural environment, and might aid in our understanding of the development of some of the most fascinating objects in the Universe.

Continue reading

Titan A.E. came out 25 years ago, and history has been kind to the infamous flop that killed Fox Animation Studios

Send your birthday love to Planet Bob as we reminisce about this spirited post-apocalyptic gem.

First artificial solar eclipse in space

Video: 00:01:40

Proba-3 artificially created what is normally a rare natural phenomenon: a total solar eclipse.

Continue reading

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

Today, the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the solar corona. The mission’s two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard positioning technologies, have succeeded in creating their first ‘artificial total solar eclipse’ in orbit. The resulting coronal images demonstrate the potential of formation flying technologies, while delivering invaluable scientific data that will improve our understanding of the Sun and its enigmatic atmosphere.


SpaceZE.com