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'Nerds are cool' — Pixar's 'Elio' is a powerful story of finding yourself amongst the stars (interview)

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 10:00am
We spoke to "Elio" stars Zoe Saldaña, Yonas Kibreab, and Brad Garrett, alongside co-directors Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian, about finding the heart and humanity in sci-fi stories.
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Watch your favorite sci-fi shows anywhere in the world and get a free Amazon voucher ahead of Prime Day with this NordVPN deal

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 9:22am
Get up to 76% off NordVPN and claim a free $50 Amazon Voucher ahead of Prime Day — watch season three of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds from anywhere.
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Firefly Aerospace to launch 'Ocula' moon-imaging service as early as 2026

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 9:00am
Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a new "lunar imaging service" called Ocula, which will collect detailed imagery using a set of moon-orbiting spacecraft.
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Colossal solar flare erupts from Earth-facing sunspot, sparking strong radio blackouts over Pacific Ocean (video)

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 8:16am
The prolific flare factory doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.
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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen (photo, video)

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 8:00am
A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.
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Satellite streaks: Can the huge new Vera Rubin Observatory function in the megaconstellation age?

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 6:00am
Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffer from this contamination?
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SpaceX sends 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on launch from Florida (video)

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 2:08am
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.
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Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 5:00pm
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.
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Northern lights and glowing noctilucent clouds collide in a rare night sky show over Alberta (photo)

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 4:00pm
The surprise display was captured on June 9 by aurora chaser Harlan Thomas.
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Nat Geo documentary 'SALLY,' about the 1st US woman in space, now streaming on Disney+ & Hulu

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 3:00pm
You can now watch the award-winning documentary "SALLY" about the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, on Disney+ and Hulu.
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China's next-gen astronaut capsule for moon missions aces crucial pad-abort test (video)

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 2:00pm
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.
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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season five will be the show's final frontier on Paramount+

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 1:00pm
Paramount announced that the show's five-season mission is coming to an end last week with a heartfelt 'thank you' from the showrunners.
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Mysterious radio pulses detected high above Antarctica may be evidence of an exotic new particle, scientists say

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 12:42pm
A mystery signal detected high in the sky above Antarctica defies current models of physics and could represent a new particle, scientists say.
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How do baby planets grow? Study of 30 stellar nurseries sheds new light

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 12:00pm
Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.
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Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 11:00am
Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream
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Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 10:00am
Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.
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Giant telescope mirror gets a cleaning | Space photo of the day for June 17, 2025

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 9:00am
Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.
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Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 8:00am
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.
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50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 6:00am
The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."
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SpaceX launch from California sends 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video)

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 11:49pm
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.
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