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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.
Categories: Astronomy

'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.
Categories: Astronomy

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.
Categories: Astronomy

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
Categories: Astronomy

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.
Categories: Astronomy

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.
Categories: Astronomy

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."
Categories: Astronomy

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.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX, NASA target June 22 for launch of private Ax-4 astronauts due to ISS leak

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 5:00pm
Leaks aboard the International Space Station, as well as on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, delayed Axiom's next private astronaut mission, but the crew now has a target launch date of June 22.
Categories: Astronomy

Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet review

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 4:00pm
There's a good reason the Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet has been around since 2021: Few sets are as striking as this.
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Star-forming cloud Chamaeleon I looks like a cosmic masterpiece in new Dark Energy Camera image (video)

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 2:00pm
Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young stars in this artwork by nature captured by the Dark Energy Camera.
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Fujifilm X-T50 review

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 1:00pm
The Fujifilm X-T50, with its powerful 40.2-MP sensor and excellent creative functionality, is a great beginner camera for astrophotography.
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Behold! 1st images of artificial solar eclipse captured by ESA's Proba-3 mission

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 12:25pm
The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled.
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Titan A.E. came out 25 years ago, and history has been kind to the infamous flop that killed Fox Animation Studios

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 11:00am
Send your birthday love to Planet Bob as we reminisce about this spirited post-apocalyptic gem.
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Powerful solar flare erupts from sun triggering radio blackouts across North America (video)

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:13am
The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18.
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Dark matter 'lampshades' dimming stars could solve one of the greatest scientific mysteries

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:00am
Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain one of the greatest puzzles in science.
Categories: Astronomy

Milky Way arcs over Kitt Peak National Observatory | Space photo of the day for June 16, 2025

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 9:00am
The view of our home galaxy lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists find universe's missing matter while watching fast radio bursts shine through 'cosmic fog'

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 8:00am
Rapid bursts of energy that last milliseconds but emit as much energy as the sun does in decades are helping astronomers pierce the cosmic fog between galaxies to find the universe's missing matter.
Categories: Astronomy