A bright meteor was observed over Santiago, Monterrey, and several other municipalities in Nuevo León, Mexico, at approximately 08:13 UTC (02:13 local time) on June 15, 2025. The event lasted around 10 seconds and was widely reported across Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
A large asteroid designated 2008 DG5 will fly past Earth at a distance of 9.1 LD (0.023 AU; 3.4 million km / 2.1 million miles) at 23:57 UTC on June 5, 2025. This will be the closest approach of this asteroid between 1956 and 2125.
A bright green meteor flashed over Sydney on June 2, 2025, followed by vibrant Aurora Australis displays across Australia. The rare dual event was driven by a strong geomagnetic storm.
A very bright meteor streaked across the night sky over southern China on May 28, 2025, briefly illuminating Maoming in Guangdong Province and parts of Hainan. The event occurred around 13:00 UTC (21:30 local time) and was followed by a loud boom.
SpaceX’s ninth Starship test flight on May 27, 2025, resulted in the failure of both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage. A propellant leak and uncontrolled spin led to the upper stage’s destruction during re-entry, while the booster was lost during its landing attempt.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft concluded the CRS-32 commercial resupply mission with a sonic boom and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oceanside, California, at 01:44 EDT (05:44 UTC) on May 25, 2025. The spacecraft returned approximately 3 040 kg (6 700 pounds) of cargo from the International Space Station, including scientific experiments and crew supplies.
The largest planet in the solar system is putting on a show no telescope has fully caught before. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the gas giant’s auroras flickering in bursts measured in seconds, not minutes. Scientists now face fresh questions about where that power comes from.
A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 KF will fly by Earth at a distance of 0.3 LD / 0.00077 AU (114 000 km / 71 222 miles) from the center of our planet on May 21, 2025.
A visible aurora has been recorded from the surface of Mars for the first time. NASA’s Perseverance rover detected a faint green glow of atomic oxygen triggered by a solar storm, confirming long-standing predictions about atmospheric emissions. The detection provides a new way to study Martian space weather from the surface.
Search efforts are underway in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region following a bright green-white fireball that streaked across the sky at 05:57 local time (AWST) on May 11, 2025.
