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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.
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A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.
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Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.
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SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.
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The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.
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Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.
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Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of the Vulcan's surprisingly complicated love life
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A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star
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Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.
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The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.
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The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station Friday (Aug. 1), and you can watch the action live.
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Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).
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The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star.
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From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there's something for every space fan in Marvel's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."
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NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions.
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Noah Hawley's daring exploration of the Alien universe makes for a great sci-fi TV show that asks big questions without neglecting the fun factor.
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The world's largest optical telescope is still under construction but is raising the roof on its progress.
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By transforming idle heliostats into asteroid detectors, scientists aim to develop a cost-effective method for spotting faint, fast-moving space rocks.
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You can save 20% on the Hommkiety Galaxy Projector on Amazon, which we praised for its build quality and high-end projections.
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The image reveals over 2,500 galaxies, many of which are seen as they were during the first billion years of cosmic history.
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A brutal alien planet isn't quite the same as future Earth, but Predator: Concrete Jungle has more than a few things in common with Predator: Badlands.
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NASA is calling on the public to help shape the future of lunar exploration by designing the next generation of wheels capable of navigating the moon's harsh terrain.
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully tested its ice-penetrating radar system during a close flyby of Mars earlier this year.
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New research suggests moonquakes rooted in ancient fault systems could threaten modern moon missions.
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Space weather forecasters are watching for faint CMEs that could reach Earth later this week.
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Explore the space between the stars from the safety of a virtual cockpit with the best space flight simulation games.
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Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult.
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The day seemed particularly promising on July 31, 2025.
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Space hurricanes can shake Earth's magnetic field and scramble satellites without a solar storm in sight.
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Rocket Lab launched its fifth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5), sending a synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit.
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A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Aug. 4), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.
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Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.
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With more countries looking to explore space, there is a rising hope that space is now more accessible for diverse participants.
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The red supergiant star Antares will appear close to the waxing gibbous moon tonight.
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In a Q&A interview, author and science writer David Baron discusses the turn-of-the-century Mars craze, which he covers in his new book, "The Martians."
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A four-legged robot tested under simulated Martian gravity jumps from wall to wall, demonstrating how future missions could navigate terrain too challenging for today's rovers.
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SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts will return to Earth today (Aug. 9) after living on the International Space Station for nearly five months, and you can watch the action live.
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The four members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission are Earth-bound after bidding farewell to their Expedition 73 crewmates and departing the International Space Station.
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For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional
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Astronomers spot a rare stellar bridge in Abell 3667, revealing an aggressive galaxy merger and new clues about dark matter.
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This quiz tests your knowledge of the astronauts who have stepped foot on the moon.
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NASA astronaut Jim Lovell — a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 8 and the near-disastrous Apollo 13 —passed away on Aug. 7, 2025 at the age of 97.
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Paramount’s hit sci-fi horror franchise returns in 2027 with more ultrasonic alien invaders.
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The techniques used to target the asteroids could also be employed in tracking hazardous asteroids and interstellar objects.
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Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.
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A newfound supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe challenges how early cosmic giants formed.
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a breathtaking panorama of the Red Planet surface depicted in false-color under a blue sky.
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Ahead of Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere, we talked to series creator Noah Hawley and executive producer David W. Zucker.
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While moonlight might steal the spotlight, it won't steal the Perseids' show.
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The LaView Galaxy Star Projector posits itself as a premium option, but doesn’t quite live up to the competition.
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It’s a disappointing star projector, but the Discovery Space Projector has some nice scientific images of moons and planets.
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New Hubble Telescope imagery of the interstellar interloper comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a dusty coma and the beginning of a tail.
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Scientists have spotted a mysterious mineral on Mars that may be new to science — and could help reveal some Red Planet mysteries.
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The MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite is loaded onto the Ariane 6 launch adapter as part of a mission for the European Space Agency.
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A large simulated moonscape built by the Colorado School of Mines is open for business, allowing researchers and companies to test their ideas for lunar rovers, landing pads, mining gear and more.
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The Chinese lunar lander Lanyue recently passed a test in a simulated moon-like environment.
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The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaked Aug. 12-13, delighting skywatchers worldwide.
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"We have never seen anything quite like it."
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The 1132-piece buildable replica with moving parts is 18% off as Lego's Technic Mars Rover Perseverance set is one of its lowest prices on Amazon.
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To celebrate Alien: Earth landing on Hulu, we asked a zoologist if any of the Xenomorph's infamous characteristics occur in the natural world
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The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers.
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With just one year until the total solar eclipse of 2026, we take a look at everything you need to know for the ultimate eclipse adventure.
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Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only.
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The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight Tuesday (Aug. 12), and you can enjoy the event live online with the Virtual Telescope Project's webcast.
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Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere is released today and you can watch it anywhere with our exclusive 79% off NordVPN deal, but you'll have to hurry.
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Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and climate satellite to orbit.
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A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and approved.
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United Launch Alliance lofted an experimental navigation satellite on the first national security mission of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Tuesday night (Aug. 12).
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Test out your knowledge of these famous firsts in skywatching and astrophotography, from the first photos of Earth and the moon to the invention of telescopes!
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The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored image of this star-forming area.
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Nicknamed 'Punctum,' this puzzling phenomenon is highly energetic, but is only seen in millimeter-wavelength light and cannot be explained by any known object.
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'Alien: Earth' is the first-ever Alien TV show and it's finally arrived. Here's how to watch 'Alien: Earth' wherever you are on the planet.
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Scotland-based Skyrora has received the first U.K.-issued vertical launch license for a homegrown company, enabling rocket launches from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands.
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Our quiz will test your smarts of which planets go where in our solar system.
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The Hyades, Pleiades and Hercules star clusters make for excellent targets in the late summer months.
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This quiz will explore the facts, the fun and the fascinating quirks of our solar system’s speedster, Mercury
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The effects of Earth's changing climate is driving up the number of legal suits related to environmental issues
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Google and NASA are trialing an AI-powered medical assistant that could help astronauts care for themselves when mission control is out of reach.
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Think you know Earth's moon? Test your knowledge in a lunar quiz!
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In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early star formation.
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On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look back at the week in space news.
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Beyond powering lights, it's also important to think about where all that light would go.
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The second largest moon in the solar system will cast its shadow over Saturn on Aug. 19.
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"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can."
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SpaceX is targeting Aug. 24 for the 10th Flight Test for its Starship rocket, following delays from a pad accident and May's failed mission.
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Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket will launch NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission no earlier than (NET) Sep. 29.
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NASA has awarded $1.4 million to six companies, to further their ideas about how to get vehicles farther into space cheaply and efficiently.
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Russia is readying its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite for a planned Aug. 20 launch. The mission will send 75 mice and other specimens on a monthlong mission to Earth orbit.
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Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave.
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Canada's first commercial rocket launch is set for liftoff as early as the end of August as NordSpace begins building its new spaceport on the country's east coast.
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Going boldly where someone has gone before! The "Star Trek" prequel series is overflowing with characters who debuted in the 1960s.
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On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden DeBenedictis to discuss how terraforming Mars might work.
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On Episode 171 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Isaac Arthur are joined by Rick Jenet to discuss the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
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The members of Expedition 73-"B" settle in and get busy conducting science research on board the International Space Station.
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Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that threaten Earth, a new study suggests.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff Thursday, Aug. 21, with the Boeing-built X-37B space plane for the U.S. Space Force. The mostly classified mission will study experimental technology in orbit.
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Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the most impressive eruptions this solar cycle.
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As part of its exploration of Mars's boxwork landscape, Curiosity found itself in a fork-in-the-road
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Save the world and our lunar history in Lunar Strike, the 2026 sci-fi narrative adventure game that was just announced at the Future Games Show.
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A deep partial solar eclipse will grace the Southern Hemisphere on Sept. 21, 2025, with the best views from remote seas and New Zealand's dawn skies.
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If there's one thing astronauts know, it's "practice, practice, practice."
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This quiz will explore the science behind the scenery, the facts behind the familiar, and the wonders that make Earth a living planet.
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The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane will test a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for navigation: a quantum inertial sensor.
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Join us as director Valerie Weiss breaks down this 'Trekiest' episode of the sci-fi series yet.
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Chappell Roan mentioned Canada's Saskatchewan just days before Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park hosts a "star party" festival in its dark-sky park.
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Battlestar Galactica meets FTL in this just-announced "story-rich tactical roguelite" from the makers of Crying Suns.
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Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies and other organisms to orbit to learn more about the health effects of spaceflight.
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A fireball exploded into life in the skies above Japan on Aug. 19, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting close to the horizon.
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Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, not the "smorgasbord of priorities," like climate science, the agency has been directing its resources.
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After five years, Pragmata could have been unambitious, but instead, it's a fascinating and innovative sci-fi game with heaps of potential.
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South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch toward the moon on the Artemis 2 mission next year.
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Scientists are calling attention to an extremely common health problem that's been making astronauts uncomfortable: sinus issues.
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This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.
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Warhammer 40K's most iconic real-time strategy series is back next year and under new leadership.
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Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its exoplanet host.
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The crescent moon will be positioned close to Mars soon after sunset on Aug. 26
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It makes it easier to drive an extremely heavy radio dish when you can do it remotely.
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of our home planet from deep space.
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SpaceX scrubbed the planned 10th test flight of its Starship megarocket today (Aug. 24), citing a problem with ground systems at its Starbase site in South Texas.
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A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Aug. 25 carrying about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of food, supplies and scientific experiments.
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Could you be the Lord of the rings (of Saturn)? Try your hand at our Saturn-themed space quiz!
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From the semi-annoying antics of 'ALF' to 'Knight Rider's' awesome autonomous auto, the 1980s were a transitional time for stimulating small-screen science fiction!
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A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood.
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If black holes are actually droplets of dark energy that convert stellar matter into this mysterious and dominant force, many "cosmic hiccups" could soon be cured.
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NASA will announce its new astronaut class in September, as well as details about the Artemis 2 crewed mission around the moon.
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SpaceX launched its 33rd Dragon cargo mission early Sunday morning (Aug. 24), sending 5,000 pounds of cargo toward the International Space Station.
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On Episode 174 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Lynn Harper to discuss some of the amazing research taking place aboard the International Space Station.
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Rocket Lab launched five satellites for a confidential customer this evening (Aug. 23) on the 70th overall liftoff of its Electron rocket.
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This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Jupiter's features, moons, and the missions that have dared to get close.
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SpaceX hoped to launch its Starship Flight 10 test mission on Sunday (Aug. 24) at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT), but is now targeting Aug. 25.
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Sky View Tents' Backpacker provides a complete view of the night sky with a lightweight, no-frills design.
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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn looks set to be the next big RPG, and a major breakout moment for developer Owlcat Games.
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Blue Origin is flying more than 40 science payloads on board its 35th New Shepard suborbital spaceflight. After an avionics issue the launch from West Texas is being rescheduled.
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Satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration watched Hurricane Erin as it swirled off of the U.S. coast on Aug. 11, 2025.
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Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change?
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Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hypervelocity white dwarfs rocket out of the Milky Way at breakneck speeds.
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As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question.
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There's more to being a Vulcan than prosthetic ears and playing it straight.
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The near-Earth asteroid's microscopic surface tells a detailed story.
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Newly released SpaceX footage gives us great looks at the final moments of Starship's epic Flight 10 test on Aug. 26, which ended with an Indian Ocean splashdown.
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SpaceX's Starship nailed its 10th-ever test flight on Aug. 26. Footage from the launch pad that day shows just how much power the giant rocket packs.
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This sneak peek at 'Skin in the Game' is a battle of wits between galactic heavyweights.
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The glacial flood risks that Juneau is now experiencing each summer are becoming a growing problem in communities around the world.
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Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be "WIMPier than WIMPS."
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Altair, Vega and Deneb can be seen shining with the Milky Way throughout August.
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" during its latest exploration stop on the Red Planet.
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It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ripples from the Big Bang, but they could change our understanding of the entire universe.
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A new NASA-IBM algorithm called Surya could be a major leap in space weather forecasting.
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Here's where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.
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The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter?
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NASA has opened a new Orion Mission Evaluation Room at the Johnson Space Center to analyze in-flight spacecraft data and provide support for Artemis 2 and other future missions to the moon.
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The USS Enterprise, a 'Star Trek' spaceship, is created from pumpkins as part of a German contest.
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The Butterfly Nebula, which is a planetary nebula resulting from the death of a sun-like star, has been caught creating large dust grains that could form planets.
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If you're a student or between 18 and 24 years old, you can get nearly 73% off an annual subscription to Peacock and enjoy a huge selection of fantastic documentaries, movies, sports, and entertainment.
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'Your world is running out of time. But I can help you'
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Walmart's "Bricktember Lego Sales" event is live, and this nearly 2,000-piece model of Space history has a massive $63 reduction.
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"Once these objects get too faint to see, they will never be seen again,"
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This quiz invites you to journey into the depths of these gravitational giants.
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Shorter version of strapline
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The cannibal solar storm didn't hit its full potential, but still put on a good show.
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Magnetic fields can replace bulky centrifuges in space oxygen systems, making them lighter, more efficient and better suited for deep-space missions, a new study finds.
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Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts use creativity and culture to make life in orbit feel a little more like home.
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"Since I landed in Lucknow around 7:30 this morning, I must have clicked about 2,000 selfies."
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On Wednesday (Sept. 3), the asteroid 2025 QDB will come to within just over half the distance between Earth and the moon, and you can watch its progress live online.
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Mercury will be close to Regulus embedded among the stars of the constellation Leo.
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Today, NASA recovers over 90% of the water used in space.
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A new live-action trailer for the upcoming sci-game "Borderlands 4" is here urging us all to "Quit Earth" and get on the rocket.
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The view underneath SpaceX's Starship spacecraft shows the Super Heavy booster's complex array of 33 Raptor engines.
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Hasbro, the toy manufacturer, and Disney, who own the rights to Star Wars, both make top lightsabers, but what are the differences between them?
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Titan Books' hardcover cartoon collection makes you see militant Klingons in a whole new light.
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The Potensic Atom 2 is an upgrade on its successful predecessor and now you can get the lowest-ever price on a useful bundle when you get it on Amazon.
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NASA is using Colorado's rugged peaks to rehearse the risky final moments of future Artemis lunar landings.
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The writing has been on the wall for years that the UK Space Agency would be scrapped, but will its end after a mere 15 years in existence undermine Britain's space ambitions?
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"The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get."
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Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star?
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This quiz is a deep dive into the physics, history, and mysteries of our nearest star.
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On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what is next in deep space exploration.
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We talked to Starfield's Lead Creative Producer, Tim Lamb, about designing Starfield's blend of complex ship control and thrilling arcade dogfights.
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The Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse will be visible to over 7 billion people in Asia, Australia, Africa and eastern Europe.
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The nebula body of the cosmic shark is located 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus.
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Beijing's recent military parade unveiled new hypersonic and intercontinental missiles alongside stealth drones, highlighting China's expanding strike and defense capabilities
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JetBlue will start using Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites for in-flight Wi-Fi in 2027. It's a big win for Jeff Bezos' company and its nascent internet constellation.
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The seven members of the Expedition 73 crew worked on science and kept systems running on International Space Station this week in Earth orbit.
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The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane is carrying a sample of material that could someday help NASA land cargo and people on Mars.
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Make way for the shock and awe of this 'technological terror' coming to your galaxy next month.
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"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown dwarfs, potentially offering clues to the diversity of worlds beyond our solar system."
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Superman and Lex Luthor continue their historic rivalry in 'Man of Tomorrow', scheduled for July 9, 2027
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A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the hot particle soup that existed during the first milliseconds of the universe.
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Three powerful space telescopes, Euclid, Roman, and the James Webb Space Telescope, could team up to detect black holes as early as 250 million years after the Big Bang.
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Astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the interstellar intruder 3I/ATLAS, seeing its growing tail and glowing coma.
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You can stream all Star Trek content, including the latest series of Strange New Worlds, for less as Paramount Plus is 50% off for a limited time only.
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How to watch the Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse live from the comfort of your home.
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One member of the cluster was previously believed to be the most massive star known, but is actually a triple star system of huge stars, all of which will go supernova.
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A recent close-up shows a turtle-shaped rock on the surface of Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.
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The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ telescope is on sale for $367 on Amazon and is a great budget choice for observing the opposition of Saturn overnight on Sept. 20.
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Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed the predictions of the greatest minds in physics.
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.
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SpaceX launched 21 satellites to orbit from California today (Sept. 10), beginning the buildout of an advanced new constellation for the U.S. military.
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The Celestron TrailSeeker 8x42mm binoculars come highly recommended by our experts, and with a saving of over $130, now is the time to spot star clusters and planets for less.
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A total lunar eclipse on March 2-4, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the last total lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until New Year's Eve 2028-2029.
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Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies.
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"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map the heliosphere and expand our understanding of space weather and atmospheric science.
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A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rather than erupting in milliseconds, leaving astronomers perplexed by its origins.
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A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.
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Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.
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In the not-too-distant future, "artificial astronauts" could fly as actual crew members on human missions to Mars, and elsewhere in space.
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As part of the Artemis 2 astronaut moon mission launching no earlier than 2026, NASA is asking volunteers to test alternative forms of deep-space tracking.
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NASA's hosting a conference on Wednesday (Sept. 10) to discuss a new rock analysis from the Perseverance Mars rover. Here's how to tune in.
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Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured great shots of the total lunar eclipse over the weekend.
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"The country that lands on the moon first will shape the rules of engagement in space for decades to come."
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From dystopian futures to interstellar adventures, this quiz explores the classics that dared to imagine the impossible—and the authors who made it unforgettable.
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Satellite images reveal a new island in Alaska's Alsek Lake, formed as retreating glaciers reshape the landscape.
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The moon will roll across the face of the sun on Sept. 21 for lucky viewers in the southern hemisphere.
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SpaceX will launch Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship on its debut mission to the International Space Station this evening (Sept. 14), and you can watch the action live.
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The first-ever detection of gravitational waves was made 10 years ago today (Sept. 14). In celebration, Space.com takes you through the most significant gravitational wave discoveries to date.
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SpaceX launched 24 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today (Sept. 13). It was the 300th Starlink mission to date, according to the company.
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Russia's Progress 93 freighter arrived at the International Space Station today (Sept. 13), two days after launching atop a Soyuz rocket.
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By poring over thousands of satellite images, researchers geolocated 245 fresh boulder tracks, revealing signs of seismic activity or impact events within the last half-million years.
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On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Tice to talk about a possible detection of ancient life on Mars.
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This quiz invites you to embark on a journey across the galaxy, exploring the science and wonder behind exoplanet discovery.
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Hailstones drove into terrain in southern Alberta during a storm Aug. 20, creating a scar on the landscape visible in NASA satellites.
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Witnesses and whistleblowers testified that the U.S. government knows more than it is letting on about encounters with UAP during a U.S. congressional hearing on Sept. 9.
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As their research activities continued, the Expedition 73 crew had a busy week on the International Space Station with the departure of a cargo vehicle and preparations for the arrival of two more.
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Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the first evidence of a "direct collapse" black hole.
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Astronomers have discovered a rogue intermediate mass black hole blasting out jets over 3,000 light-years from the heart of its home galaxy, where it would usually lurk.
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Blue Origin and Anduril each received AFRL contracts to deliver rocket-flown cargo to any point in the world within one hour, according to a media report.
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Red Mars meets bright Spica in the sunset sky this week.
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Workers at NASA are planning a third "Save NASA" protest at agency headquarters in D.C. on Sept. 15, as job cuts, Trump's union-busting order and FY26 budget proposals fuel fears of lasting damage.
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"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious in making that assumption just because of the composition of the plumes."
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It's time to boldly go further than ever before with a Bridge Crew sequel for everyone, whether they have a holodeck strapped to their face or not.
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The Pleiades will appear close to the moon before midnight on Sept. 12.
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Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging.
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See a sickle moon with Venus and the bright star Regulus early on Sept. 19.
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Save up to $60 on an annual subscription to Paramount Plus, the home of all Star Trek content, as well as a huge selection of Sci-Fi titles and entertainment.
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Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship reached the International Space Station this morning (Sept. 18), after a delay, delivering about 11,000 pounds of supplies to the orbiting lab.
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Earth will see a deep partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21 — here's who can watch and when.
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Both educational and mesmerizing, the Thames and Kosmos planetarium star projector is a great gift for kids.
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NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts prepare for moon landings.
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SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 18), sending them aloft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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Blue Origin launched its 35th New Shepard suborbital mission this morning (Sept. 18) after a nearly four-week delay, flying more than 40 scientific payloads above the Kármán Line.
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One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it for military communications.
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"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet."
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Artemis 2 astronauts will be the subjects of nearly as many experiments as they'll be performing during their trip around the moon.
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SpaceX has moved its newest Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the megarocket's upcoming 11th test flight.
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Alien objects may be seeding the universe. Here's what that means.
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A new study suggests that a group of cells, key for the health of blood and the immune system, are vulnerable to aging-like processes after spending time on the ISS.
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