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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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Feel the burn with this amazing video of a Varda space capsule's plunge through Earth's atmosphere
The final two minutes of the video show things really heating up.
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World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video)
A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye — the world's largest digital camera.
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Farewell, Blue Ghost! Private moon lander goes dark to end record-breaking commercial lunar mission
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander went dark in the lunar night on Sunday (March 16) as expected, bringing an end to its historic mission.
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'Starship Troopers' big-screen reboot coming from 'District 9' director Neill Blomkamp — would you like to know more?
After a long wait and a bunch of disappointing straight-to-DVD sequels, Starship Troopers is still trying to live forever with a theatrical reboot now in development.
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Space photo of the day: Brilliant comet shines at sunset over observatory in Chile
The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.
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7 excellent Irish sci-fi movies to leave Hollywood green with envy this St. Patrick's Day
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a spirited selection of sci-fi films born from the Emerald Isle.
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James Webb Space Telescope sees four giant alien planets circling nearby star (images)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
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Our best binoculars for viewing the sun safely have a dazzling 58% off – grab a pair now in time for March's partial solar eclipse
Get the Celestron EclipSmart 10x25 Solar Binoculars for their best price in over a year — a fantastic pair of binoculars for safe observation of the sun.
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Beam back to the USS Callister in mind-bending new trailer for 'Black Mirror' Season 7 on Netflix
Netflix's fan-favorite Season 4 'Star Trek'-themed episode scores a direct sequel coming April 10.
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The moon is unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special moon?
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Rocket Lab launches final 5 satellites for French 'Internet of Things' constellation
Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight (March 17).
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Starliner astronauts head back to Earth with SpaceX Crew-9 duo to make long-awaited landing (video)
Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading back to Earth, and you can watch their Tuesday (March 18) homecoming live.
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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.
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