June's night sky delivers several must-see events, starting with a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter after sunset. Mercury joins the pair to form a rare three-planet lineup, while the Moon puts on a special show by passing in front of Venus for viewers in parts of the Americas. The month also marks the start of astronomical summer and the return of spectacular deep-sky targets like the Ring Nebula and Veil Nebula.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Wednesday that it intends to make its stock market debut next week at a $1.77 trillion valuation.

The $135 share price means Elon Musk’s rocket maker is poised to exceed the 2019 initial public offering of Saudi Aramco in both valuation and money raised.

NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned.

SpaceX has filed for an initial public offering at a valuation of $1.77 trillion that could make founder and CEO Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. NBC News' Allie Canal has more.

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The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is a big setback for the spaceflight company and will have implications for NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.

NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

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Democrats are sharpening their attacks against Elon Musk, zeroing in on his soon-to-be-trillionaire status before his company SpaceX’s initial public offering.

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A deep partial lunar eclipse on August 27-28, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the best lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until New Year's Eve 2028.

The Celestron Origin Mark II smart telescope will have you capturing crisp images of deep-sky objects within minutes of taking it out of the box.

NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sejong Univ./Hur et al; JWST: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand This image of Westerlund 2 released on March 19, 2026, features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and infrared data from NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope (red, orange, green, cyan, and blue). Scores of gleaming stars ringed in neon pink stretch across the frame, highlighting a clus

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Artist’s concept of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft at Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit around the planet in 2014 and has completed over eleven years of observing the Martian upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind to explore the loss of the Red Planet’s atmosphere to space. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’

China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time ever on Monday (June 1), sending it up without issuing airspace closure notices ahead of time.