NASA invites media to view a research aircraft.. — June 06, 2026

0:00 You're listening to space news and weather Today. NASA invites media to view a research aircraft and interview scientists in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday, Augunier twenty two, prior to flights of the agency's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, which seeks a better understanding of the sensitivity of northern ecosystems and communities to climate change. Media also will have the opportunity to tour NASA's C twenty a A. A small space rock named five three oh five two zero twenty eleven LT seventeen makes a close approach in about six days. It's bigger than a sports stadium, passing about sixteen lunar distances from Earth. Scientists will be watching most of the night. Is moon free tonight, the thin crescent only rises just before sunrise, leaving hours of dark sky. A Falcon nine rocket is heading to space time tomorrow. SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space Force Space, California, sending up the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. Venus and Jupiter will meet in a dazzling conjunction on June ninth, The two brightest planets side by side. The Sun is putting on a show for solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which means the chance of solar flares stays elevated.

1:31 Aurora watchers in the far North might catch a faint glow on the horizon tonight. Space is strange. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of their material would weigh about six billion tons on Earth. Today's report was compiled by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See you tomorrow.