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Save 28% in this early Amazon Spring Deal Days Lego Star Wars deal as Ahsoka Tano's T-6 Jedi Shuttle is heavily discounted
The 599-piece Lego Star Wars Ahsoka Tano T-6 Jedi Shuttle is 28% off and all but its lowest-ever price, just ahead of Amazon's Spring Deal Days event.
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How do spiral galaxies get 'feathers'? All it takes is a little gravity
For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in a multitude of small-scale features known as feathers.
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Borderlands 4: Release date, trailers & everything we know
The Pandora saga might be over, but Borderlands is just evolving. Launching in 2025, this is everything we know about Borderlands 4.
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'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how
The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.
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Mars madness! Perfect NCAA tournament bracket wins you a trip to the Red Planet on SpaceX's Starship
If you have an otherworldly knack for picking the winners of college basketball games, you could get a free ride to Mars on SpaceX's Starship megarocket.
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Euclid space telescope's 1st results reveal 'a goldmine of data' in search for dark matter and dark energy (images, video)
The Euclid space telescope has dropped its first data and deep field observations showing millions of galaxies in great detail as it hunts for dark matter and dark energy clues.
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Dolphins welcome SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts home after splashdown (video)
A pod of dolphins gave the four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission a warm welcome after their capsule splashed down in the ocean on Tuesday afternoon (March 18).
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast (video, photos)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink internet satellites, 13 of which have direct-to-cell capability, from Florida this afternoon (March 18).
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Never-'stuck’ Starliner astronauts return to Earth at last with Crew-9 duo in SpaceX Dragon splashdown
The first astronauts to fly on two different commercial spacecraft during a single mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, returned to Earth with ISS crewmates Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov.
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Watch the sun set over the moon in epic video from private Blue Ghost lunar lander
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander captured amazing views of the lunar sunset shortly before shutting down on Sunday (March 16).
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Watch how SpaceX makes 15,000 Starlink satellite internet kits a day (video)
SpaceX released a video that offers a glimpse at how Starlink satellite kits are made in the company's factory outside of Austin, Texas.
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Astronaut takes a mind-bending trip over Earth beneath star trails: Space photo of the day
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the International Space Station.
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New cosmic 'baby pictures' reveal our universe taking its 1st steps towards stars and galaxies
The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps toward the first stars and galaxies.
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Punch it! 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs
Paramount celebrates with a USS Enterprise bridge photo and new Season 3 character posters
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Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch
The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.
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'Apollo 1' director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary
It was the opening scene of "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man." It was also included in director Mark Craig's "Last Man on the Moon," inspiring "Apollo 1."
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The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms
New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.
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How NASA's Starliner mission went from 10 days to 9 months: A timeline
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way home from a nine-month space mission that was supposed to last just 10 days. Here's a rundown of their eventful time off Earth.
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What time will NASA's Starliner astronauts land with SpaceX's Crew-9 today? How to watch live.
SpaceX is poised to land its Crew Dragon Freedom with the two ISS crewmates who launched on it and two astronauts who arrived at the space station in June on Boeing's Starliner. Here's how to see it.
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