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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast, lands booster on ship at sea
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday morning (June 10), carrying 23 Starlink satellites to orbit.
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Crashed lander looks back at Earth from the moon | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2025
The private company's Resilience moon lander could almost see Japan if it weren't for the clouds.
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We're halfway between the April 2024 and August 2026 total solar eclipses: Here's why we're excited
429 days down, 429 to go until the next total solar eclipse.
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 trailer promises new worlds, new adventures, and new romances (video)
The Enterprise crew launches into more bold sci-fi encounters starting July 17, and Paramount just dropped a new trailer and a bunch of posters for fans.
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June's Strawberry Moon rises tonight. Here's what to expect from the lowest full moon since 2006
Catch the full moon rise over the southeastern horizon on June 10.
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An Indian astronaut is about to visit the ISS for the 1st time ever
An astronaut from India is set to launch to the International Space Station on the Ax-4 mission on June 11, marking a first for the nation.
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NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032
Asteroid 2024 YR4, once the highest impact risk ever recorded, now poses no threat to Earth but has a slightly increased chance of striking the moon in 2032.
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How to see the 'Horse and Rider' in the Big Dipper's handle this summer
Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was popularly known as the "Horse and Rider."
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Marathon: Release date, trailers & everything we know about Bungie's extraction shooter
Bungie's next game is a return to the Marathon universe, but it's not what fans of the series were expecting. Here's everything we know so far.
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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites to orbit on 70th Falcon 9 flight of the year (photos)
SpaceX launched 26 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on Sunday (June 8), on the 70th mission of 2025 for the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
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Astronomers discover 15 new giant radio galaxies — the largest single objects in the universe
A new batch of 15 Giant Radio Galaxies, the largest of which is 12.4 light-years wide, could help reveal how black holes and galactic mergers help the universe's largest single objects grow so large.
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12-mile-tall volcano on Mars punches through clouds | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2025
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captures one of the Red Planet's biggest volcanoes peeking over clouds at dawn.
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Golden Dome: An aerospace engineer explains the proposed US-wide missile defense system
In May 2025, President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome. How exactly does it work?
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There's an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. Could we ever use it?
Unfortunately, any work you do in the universe will have to be done the old-fashioned way.
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SpaceX delays launch of private Ax-4 astronaut mission to ISS due to rocket leak
SpaceX has delayed the planned June 11 launch of the Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS due to a liquid oxygen leak in its Falcon 9 rocket. No new target date has been announced.
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'What a waste:' US scientists decry Trump's 47% cuts to NASA science budget
"I don't think it is an overstatement to say that morale among U.S.-based scientists is at an all-time low."
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Astronauts track huge dust clouds over Canada and US | On the ISS this week June 2-6, 2025
Preparations for the arrival of a visiting crew, the continued study of how humans adapt to microgravity and more highlight the sixth week of Expedition 73 on the International Space Station.
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See the moon shine with famous red star Antares in the southern sky on June 9
Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth.
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China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid
China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth.
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'In our spacesuit collection for movies, we have replicas of pretty much every historic spacesuit that's been into space.' How the son of an aerospace machinist built some of Hollywood's most iconic astronaut looks (exclusive)
"I've had a number of NASA personnel come up and think that the one that was theirs was ours, and they're shocked."
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