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Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffer from this contamination?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Southwest Airlines flight 1843 was canceled on Monday, June 16, after blowing out a tire before takeoff. Thankfully, the incident at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green Airport (PVD) was limited to a flat, and the jet safely returned to the gate.

On June 17, the second day of the Paris Air Show, the 2025 SKYTRAX World Airline Awards were announced during a gala ceremony at the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget. Qatar Airways was once again crowned the World’s Best Airline, securing the title for the ninth time.

JetBlue is planning to park and likely retire four of its oldest A320s rather than conduct planned cabin retrofits on the aircraft. The carrier had originally planned to upgrade the aircraft that still operate with the 150-seat layouts that they received at launch in the early 2000s. However, financial constraints are putting the brakes on this for at least four of the aircraft.

Supermassive black holes that seem too large to exist in the early universe may have grown from primordial black holes formed in the first second after the Big Bang.

On June 24, Etihad Airways will begin flying the Airbus A380 from Abu Dhabi to Toronto.It will be the first time the carrier's double-decker quadjets have appeared in Canada. Excluding a one-off China Southern repatriation service in 2020, its arrival means Canada's busiest airport will have two A380 operators for the first time, joining Emirates.

The surprise display was captured on June 9 by aurora chaser Harlan Thomas.

This summer, Delta Air Lines will be streamlining travel options for premium flyers to many of Europe's hard-to-reach summer destinations. The carrier will now allow Delta One passengers the opportunity to book final-leg charter flights through the carrier's private jet subsidiary, Wheels Up. Those traveling to destinations like Athens, Nice, or Rome will be able to book onward private jet travel to high-profile but hard-to-reach destinations like Mykonos or St. Tropez. Wheels Up will arrange charter and transfer operations using its global fleet of more than 7,000 aircraft and helicopters.

You can now watch the award-winning documentary "SALLY" about the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, on Disney+ and Hulu.

It's the second day of the Paris Air Show, and we have another update from All Nippon Airways (ANA). The airline has unveiled "THE Room FX," a new supersized business class seat designed specifically for its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet. It was developed in collaboration with French seat manufacturer Safran Seats and the UK-based design firm Acumen.

An Alaska Airlines flight and other flights around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) were disrupted on June 14, 2025, after a passenger made remarks about having a bomb on board. The Alaska Airlines flight was forced to stop taxiing, and two of the airport's runways were closed.

China's human spaceflight agency just conducted a crucial pad abort test for its Mengzhou spacecraft as it continues toward its goal of putting boots on the moon before 2030.

Welcome to my 172nd weekly routes article! It includes nine mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between June 10 and 16. While dozens of routes worldwide started in the examined period, only a selection of intriguing additions are covered in this article.

Paramount announced that the show's five-season mission is coming to an end last week with a heartfelt 'thank you' from the showrunners.

A mystery signal detected high in the sky above Antarctica defies current models of physics and could represent a new particle, scientists say.

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

Seemingly out of nowhere, on December 3, 2023, Alaska Airlines, or rather its parent company, Alaska Air Group, announced that it would acquire Hawaiian Airlines, or rather its parent company, Hawaiian Holdings, in a transaction valued at $1.9 billion, including $900 million of the latter’s debt. At the time, Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines had a domestic passenger market share of 5.5% and 1.3%, respectively. The combined company represents the fourth-largest domestic carrier in the US.

Recent times have seen Pratt & Whitney dominate the headlines concerning the world of modern commercial aviation for all the wrong reasons, as issues with the company's engines have had significant knock-on effects at airline customers worldwide. Now, however, the firm appears to have turned a corner, having secured major votes of confidence from key players in the low-cost sector this week.

Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream