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Bootid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight: Here's what you need to know

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 10:00am
The meteor shower radiant can be found in the constellation Bootes.
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Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have punched a hole in a house in Georgia

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 9:45am
The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.
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Mexico threatens lawsuit against SpaceX over Starship explosion 'contamination'

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 9:00am
The Mexican president said there is a "general review underway of the international laws that are being violated."
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How a fake astronaut fooled the world, broke women's hearts, and landed in jail

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 6:00am
For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anything but.
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More than 1,800 National Science Foundation workers abruptly kicked out of agency headquarters

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 5:35pm
National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.
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Upcoming DC movies: Superman, Supergirl, Clayface, The Batman Part II & beyond

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 5:00pm
Superman is spearheading DC's big reboot in the realm of movies and TV, but what's coming next? And which projects are confined to elseworlds?
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Astronomers discover baby planets taking their 1st steps in nearby stellar nursery (images)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 4:00pm
Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the star-forming region of Ophiuchus.
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Rocket Lab launches 'Get the Hawk Outta Here' mission from New Zealand (video)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 3:54pm
Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from New Zealand on June 26. The rocket carried a trio of radio frequency geolocation satellites and one experimental payload into a polar orbit.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3: Release date, cast & how to watch Paramount+'s summer sci-fi series

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 3:00pm
Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew are back and on the hunt for The Gorn. Here’s everything we know about 'Strange New Worlds' Season 3 after 2023’s cliffhanger finale.
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Human remains lost after memorial spaceflight capsule crashes into the sea

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 2:00pm
The remains of 166 people part of a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight are presumed lost after The Exploration Company's "Mission Possible" capsule presumably crashes into Pacific Ocean.
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See a vivid green fireball light up the northeastern US (video)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 1:00pm
The fireball was visible from several states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US States tonight

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:06pm
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.
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A star exploded in the Lupus constellation. Here's how to see the nova in the night sky this month

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 12:00pm
The nova appears to be dimming and may soon be undetectable by the unaided eye.
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Alien life could survive deadly stellar radiation, Earth's desert lichen reveal

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 11:00am
A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.
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Rubin Observatory takes its 1st look at the night skies | Space photo of the day for June 26, 2025

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 10:00am
The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.
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Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 9:00am
The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, but handling that much information poses a severe challenge.
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NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 6:00am
"We are given rules by our own institutions about what we can and cannot say."
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From the Cape to the constellation: SpaceX launches 27 more Starlink satellites (video)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 5:33pm
SpaceX launched a batch of 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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Axiom-4 astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon welcomed aboard International Space Station (video)

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 5:00pm
After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 has caught up to the International Space Station, docked and been welcomed aboard for their two-week mission.
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Wed, 06/25/2025 - 1:04pm
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