Asteroid flyby alert: 2015 BF, roughly the length of a bu... — July 26, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to space news and weather today ear since Beeversin's Saturn is now visible all night long, reaching its highest point around two am. Jupiter rises before midnight, growing brighter each week. The moon rises late tonight, giving you dark skies for the first few hours after sunset, great time to catch some stars. Three brilliant stars form the summer triangle overhead Vega, the brightest is only twenty five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar, is actually two thousand, six hundred light years distant, vastly more luminous.

0:49 Asteroid flyby Alert twenty fifteen BF, roughly the length of a bus, passes about seventeen lunar distances from Earth today. These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers track thousands of them. NASA Maven Mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth based auroras. Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth's atmosphere is happening at SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space Force based California, set to fly in the next couple of days. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg.

1:43 NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen on the southwest side of the Sun, moving at moderate speed. This is Space News and Weather Today, your AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include ESSA and space news from around the world.