SpaceWeekly News Summary May 3 – May 9, 2026

🚀 Starship Test Campaign Continues in Texas SpaceX continued preparations for the next Starship integrated flight…

G3 – Strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch issued for June 4 and 5 following three significant solar flares

A G3 – Strong geomagnetic storm watch means strong disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field are forecast,…

Rare meteorite hints at giant early planet

This is a view of the rare meteorite NWA 12774 under cross-polarized light. Scientists from the…

Journey to the Center of the Virgo Cluster

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88). Source link

X1.0 solar flare erupts from geoeffective Region 4455

A third significant solar flare today erupted from geoeffective Active Region 4455 at 11:28 UTC on…

Magnetic exoplanets? Strange winds are strongest hint yet

This illustration shows magnetic activity in an exoplanet. The planet is a gas giant like Jupiter,…

M9.3 and M7.7 solar flares erupt from AR 4455, launching Earth-directed CMEs

The flare originated from Region 4455, near the center disk in the Sun’s northern hemisphere, with a beta magnetic…

Look Up! – NASA

ESA/Sophie Adenot Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both…

Look Up! – NASA

Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74…

The black hole or galaxy: Which came 1st?

This is a gravitationally lensed image of QSO1, an ancient Little Red Dot galaxy. It contains…

A new buzz at ESA’s astronaut centre

Around 160 000 new little colleagues arrived at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, today.…