Launch Alert: SpaceX Falcon Heads to Orbit — May 11, 2026

0:03 Calarogu Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Space News and weather today. Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight, its rings tilted beautifully for telescope viewing. A bit of cosmic perspective, There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches, roughly ten sextillion stars. No moon tonight means dark skies all night long. This is prime time for spotting the Milky Way if you can get away from city lights. A Falcon nine rocket is set to launch tomorrow from Vandenberg's Space Force Base, California.

0:52 SpaceX is behind this one. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, revealed that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies. Boots the Herdsman rises high tonight, led by brilliant Arcturus. This orange giant is only thirty seven light years away, practically a neighbor in cosmic terms. Tides are at their most extreme this week. As the Moon and Sun combine their gravitational pull, Coastal communities see their highest and lowest water levels. Space News in Weather Today uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the world.