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How to watch 'Doctor Who' season 2 online and from anywhere

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 1:30pm
There's a new companion in the TARDIS... Here's how to watch "Doctor Who" season 2 online on BBC iPlayer in the UK and on Disney Plus in the US.
Categories: Astronomy

A gravitational war next door: The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually destroying the Small Magellanic Cloud

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 12:00pm
The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart.
Categories: Astronomy

The sun just leaked a huge amount of helium-3 — the rare isotope scientists want to harvest on the moon

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 11:00am
The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.
Categories: Astronomy

5 Simon Stålenhag art books to check out after you've watched 'The Electric State' on Netflix

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 11:00am
Behold the visionary creator’s catalog of sad dreams and technological nightmares.
Categories: Astronomy

What time is Blue Origin's New Shepard launch with Katy Perry and Gayle King today?

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 10:00am
Blue Origin is set to launch its star-studded, all-female NS-31 mission to suborbital space on April 14. Here's how to watch it live.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch April's Full Pink 'micromoon' rise this weekend with a free telescope livestream

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 9:00am
The Full Pink Moon rises Saturday (April 12), marking the farthest, smallest and faintest full moon of the year, and you can watch it live online.
Categories: Astronomy

What to expect from the newfound Comet Swan: An observer's guide

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 8:00am
Here's an observers' guide to the newly discovered Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN), which is visible in northern skies right now.
Categories: Astronomy

Texas senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Houston

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 8:00am
Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 5:00am
Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring to life with powerful X-ray eruptions.
Categories: Astronomy

Save a massive 30% on the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ, a top-tier beginner telescope

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 4:41am
Get a huge discount on a great beginner telescope in time for the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower, full moon and other night sky events.
Categories: Astronomy

Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 8:00pm
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female crew includes pop star Katy Perry.
Categories: Astronomy

China to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar dirt in 2028 to pave way for future base (video)

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 6:00pm
China is getting ready to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar soil, in what could be a huge step toward building a base on the lunar surface.
Categories: Astronomy

'Love, Death + Robots' Season 4 teaser is a maelstrom of explosions, aliens, dinosaurs, and... well robots (video)

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:00pm
Netflix's edgy animated anthology makes a provocative comeback on May 15.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA's Juno probe at Jupiter hits 'safe mode' glitch, but bounces back just fine

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:43pm
NASA's Juno spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4, but everything's okay again.
Categories: Astronomy

See gorgeous green auroras dance over Earth in dazzling ISS astronaut video

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:24pm
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured two amazing videos of the auroras from his unique perch above Earth last week.
Categories: Astronomy

This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:20pm
The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.
Categories: Astronomy

Hubble Telescope snaps 1st images of clashing star clusters at the hearts of dwarf galaxies

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 4:00pm
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected the merger of star clusters at the heart of dwarf galaxies.
Categories: Astronomy

'Murderbot' declares 'humans are idiots' in 1st tantalizing trailer for Apple TV's upcoming sci-fi series

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 2:00pm
Alexander Skarsgård's rogue security unit will be unleashed on May 16, 2025, exclusively on Apple TV+.
Categories: Astronomy

Rookie NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch to the ISS on a Russian rocket later this year

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 1:00pm
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch on his first mission to the International Space Station, on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two cosmonaut colleagues, as early as November.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch Predators take on samurai, ninjas and WWII pilots in the trailer for 'Predator: Killer of Killers' (video)

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 11:00am
Watch Predators take on samurai, ninjas and WWII pilots in the trailer for 'Predator: Killer of Killers' (video)
Categories: Astronomy