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Lufthansa plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient replacements, according to information from aero.de. This primarily concerns additional Boeing 787s, of which Lufthansa hopes to receive eight to 10 more by the end of this year.

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune.

It was likely a sporadic meteor unrelated to any major shower.

On Episode 163 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Starship's recent test flight with reporter Mike Wall.

Starting June 2025, Air India will introduce an unusual stopover in Kolkata on its routes from Mumbai and Bengaluru to San Francisco. Previously, some of these flights made stopovers in Europe, primarily in Vienna. The shift to Kolkata is likely due to Pakistan's airspace closure following the terrorist attack in Kashmir in April 2025.

A United States judge has deferred his decision on a request by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop its criminal case against Boeing regarding the 2018 and 2019 737 MAX crashes. This follows a non-prosecution agreement signed between the DOJ and the planemaker a few days ago.

Germany’s Condor Airlines is legally challenging the European Commission’s decision to approve Lufthansa Group’s takeover of Italy’s ITA Airways. According to Condor, the move aims to protect fair competition in European aviation.

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby described the low-cost airline model as a “dead” and “crappy” business strategy that aims to “screw the customer.” His remarks came shortly after the announcement of a partnership between United and JetBlue Airways, a carrier widely regarded as a budget airline.

The Trump administration's 2026 budget request cuts NASA funding by $6 billion, which would lead to the cancellation of Mars sample-return and other high-profile missions.

Boeing is planning to build a fourth 737 production line at its facility in Everett, Washington. The new line will be dedicated to production of the 737 MAX 10, the largest of Boeing's workhorse narrowbodies, which Boeing is hoping to have certified later this year. Everett has long been associated with iconic widebodies such as the 747 and 777, but this will be the first full narrowbody production line at the facility.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

A Boeing 737-800, once used as a high-profile campaign jet for US Vice President JD Vance, is now being chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation flights across Central America. Registered as N917XA, the 22-year-old aircraft previously sported a red, white, and blue livery during the 2024 election trail.

Four years have passed since Breeze Airways' first commercial flight, on May 27, 2021. Since then, Breeze's fleet has grown to 53 aircraft: 40 Airbus A220-300s, 10 Embraer E190s, and three E195s. It has already started to phase out its E195s. The airline previously said it'd retire all its Embraers in 2026, but some may be retained and used for charter flights.

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

Saturday's celestial concert salutes ESA's 50th anniversary and 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II.

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Nearly nine years have passed since the Airbus A220 (previously called CSeries) entered commercial service. The A220-100 (CS100) first flew passengers with launch customer SWISS in July 2016. The higher-capacity and more popular A220-300 (CS300), with much better economics, first flew with airBaltic in December 2016.

In a headline move that caught the world of commercial aviation by storm, United Airlines and JetBlue announced this week that they would be teaming up to expand connectivity primarily from the New York and Boston areas with a host of new interline agreements that bring the two airlines closer together than ever before. Not only will new flight slots be allocated to both carriers at their hubs in the New York Area, but passengers will be eligible to use United MileagePlus miles across both airlines.

Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, is in line to potentially receive a share options bonus worth over $110 million. As of May 29, the airline’s shares had remained above the defined threshold for the required period, meeting one of the two performance criteria set out in his long-term compensation agreement.