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SpaceX fires up 6th Starship to prep for test flight (video, photo)
SpaceX fired up the engines of its sixth Starship vehicle on Wednesday (Sept. 18) to gear up for a test flight that's probably still several months away.
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'Apollo 13: Survival:' Director Peter Middleton on his immersive new Netflix documentary (exclusive)
An exclusive interview with "Apollo 13: Survival" director Peter Middleton about his documentary full of archival footage and interviews.
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Jupiter-bound JUICE probe snaps photo of Earth, the moon and Uranus
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission photographed the Earth, moon and Uranus as it heads toward Venus for a gravity assist next year.
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Radio pollution from SpaceX's new Starlink satellites poses threat to astronomy, scientists say
SpaceX's new Starlink satellites are so radio noisy that they could blind radio astronomy observatories to the universe's most intriguing phenomena, scientists say.
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James Webb Space Telescope witnesses a 'smiling' galactic collision (images)
The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in space.
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Magnetic mystery at Mercury revealed by BepiColombo probe (video)
The BepiColombo probe's flybys of Mercury have revealed just how sharply and rapidly the planet's local environment changes in response to the solar wind.
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China's Yutu 2 rover still going strong after nearly 6 years on the far side of the moon (video)
China's Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.
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Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft
Satellite tracker and photographer Felix Schöfbänker has captured a variety of secret spacecraft on camera, revealing "things that either were not known, or only were speculated before."
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Rocket Lab aborts launch of 5 'Internet of Things' satellites at last second (video)
Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle appeared to fire up briefly today (Sept. 18) before shutting down, resulting in a launch abort.
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NASA's 'Hidden Figures' women awarded Congressional Gold Medals
Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.
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'Transformers One' is an end of summer sensation certain to please fans (review)
Paramount's new all-CG animated 'Transformers' film delivers a dynamic origin story for the shapeshifting robots from outer space.
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The largest volcano on Mars may sit above a 1,000-mile magma pool. Could Olympus Mons erupt again?
A low-density, weak-gravity region has been found below Olympus Mons and the Tharsis volcanoes, while Mars' northern hemisphere is littered with puzzling high-gravity structures beneath the surface.
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2nd Kuiper Belt? Our solar system may be much larger than thought
Eleven objects found at the extremities of the solar system could mark the location of a 'Kuiper Belt 2.'
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AI is on the hunt for dark matter
The secrets of dark matter might be hiding in the immense cosmic crashes that are colliding galaxy clusters.
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Earth had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study suggests
Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore apart.
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'Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy' is a fabulous multiverse frolic (review)
A review of Disney+ miniseries, "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy."
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NASA scientists solve mystery of curious 'spiders' on Mars
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recreated spider-like araneiform terrain, a geologic formation found on Mars, in a lab on Earth.
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Best-ever 'Cloud Atlas' of Mars showcases stunning cloud patterns (photos)
The most comprehensive map of clouds on Mars includes a variety of cloud patterns, including some that are unlike anything seen on Earth.
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Black hole blasts largest jet ever seen at 23 million light-years long
Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies.
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'Space for Birds': Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)
Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from space, but when she really thought about it, their absence struck her deeply.
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