Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00 Senior Aerospace Editor’s Exhaustive Roundup Table of Contents 1. Headline News SpaceX’s Starship: Explosions, Environmental Tensions, and Starlink Expansion NASA’s Artemis SLS: Booster Anomalies and Budget Uncertainty International Space Station: Axiom-4, India’s Return, and Multinational Crews 2. Science Highlights Meteor Fireballs and Asteroid Risks Mars: Hidden Volcanoes,…
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SummaryOn the night of 27 June 2025, Earth will slice through the tenuous dust trail of comet 7P/Pons‑Winnecke, producing the unpredictable June Bootids meteor shower. Although the shower usually sputters along at only one or two meteors an hour, past eruptions (1916, 1921, 1927 and 1998) have surprised observers with dazzling outbursts exceeding 100 meteors an hour. This year’s peak arrives just two days…
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A fast‑moving stream of plasma from a yawning coronal hole is barreling toward Earth, and forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) have issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic‑storm watch for the night of 25 June 2025. If the solar‑wind blast couples efficiently with our planet’s magnetic field, auroras could surge as far south as Colorado, New York…
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The past 24 hours delivered a blizzard of space headlines: an explosive Starship test darkened Elon Musk’s Mars timeline; Europe’s “Project Bromo” megaconstellation stalled amid board‑room drama; the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) surprised the Pentagon by lofting a prototype SATCOM bird four months early; T‑Mobile promised Starlink‑powered mobile data for every U.S. dead‑zone; and a shoebox‑sized CubeSat beamed…
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A burst of high‑speed solar wind from a giant coronal‑hole on the Sun is slamming Earth’s magnetic field this week, prompting NOAA to issue a G2‑level geomagnetic‑storm watch and raising the odds that the aurora borealis will spill far beyond its usual haunts—potentially as far south as Illinois, Ohio and New York on the night of 24–25 June 2025.…
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There is a strong chance that tonight’s sky will erupt in ribbons of green, purple and crimson light across much of the northern United States. A moderate (G2‑level) geomagnetic‑storm watch from NOAA aligns with unusually high solar‑wind speeds, setting the stage for auroras that could spill far south of their usual haunts. Below is a deep‑dive…
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A rare alignment of space‑weather ingredients is expected to push shimmering curtains of green, pink and violet as far south as the lower Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest overnight on 24–25 June 2025. NOAA has issued a G1–G2 geomagnetic‑storm watch with the Kp index forecast to peak at 5.67, enough to expand the auroral oval into at least 15…
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What Is Space Weather and Why It Matters Space Weather refers to the changing environmental conditions in space driven by the Sun’s activity – including bursts of solar radiation, charged particles, and magnetic disturbances. Just as terrestrial weather can produce hurricanes or blizzards, our Sun generates “solar tempests” like solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…
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Jupiter: The Solar System’s Giant Planet Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in 2019, showcases its reddish-brown cloud bands and the iconic Great Red Spot (lower right) science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. A Planet of Superlatives: Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system – so big that if it were a hollow shell,…
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Executive snapshot From a New Zealand sunrise eclipse in September 2025 to a fiery “ring of fire” annular eclipse over southern Africa in February 2026, plus two total “Blood-Moon” eclipses, four outer-planet oppositions, the reliable Perseids and Geminids, and a newly discovered comet (C/2025 L1 ATLAS) brightening next spring—this 12-month stretch is packed with reasons…
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