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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 teaser trailer promises more gimmicky hijinks in the final frontier (video)
Paramount+ will serve up a balanced blast of silly and serious sci-fi stories with Season 3 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
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Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's 1st big batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites on April 9
Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will lift off a week from now, if all goes according to plan.
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'Red Planet,' 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' star Val Kilmer dies at 65
Kilmer leaves a legacy of engaging film roles including Batman and even a Mars astronaut.
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25 years on, Vin Diesel's 'Pitch Black' still outshines every other Riddick film — and we think we know why
As the cult classic sci-fi monster movie turns 25, we look at why it eclipses everything Vin Diesel's antihero has done since.
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Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it
"All together, we have a better sense of what this building-sized asteroid is like."
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Europe's life-hunting ExoMars rover gets new landing platform to replace canceled Russian craft
The European Space Agency has picked Airbus to build the landing platform for the life-hunting ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028.
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Familiar faces return in 'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld', which hits Disney+ on May the 4th (video)
Disney has revealed its third animated Star Wars anthology series, which takes us deeper into the galaxy's darkest corners through the eyes of two infamous bounty hunters.
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SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see 'pure white' Antarctica from polar orbit: Space photo of the day
Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above.
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ESA's new documentary paints worrying picture of Earth's orbital junk problem
The European Space Agency's new documentary short tackles the question of whether space debris has reached crisis level.
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US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches
Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches.
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Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso
Scientists have successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on long-term missions.
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You can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement
This streaming deal is a great alternative to Disney Plus as you can get three months of Starz for just $2.99 and watch Marvel content for less.
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Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.
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Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.
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Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms
Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.
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New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)
Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller "Watch the Skies" coming to theaters May 9.
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'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.
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Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)
Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.
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