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Stare into the 'blood-soaked eyes' of 2 spooky galaxies in new Hubble, JWST images (video)
Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a spooky pair of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair of "blood-soaked" eyes just in time for Halloween.
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'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 episode 3: Why are nanites causing havoc in a luxury space hotel?
"Star Trek" has played around with swarms of microscopic robots before, but never quite like this.
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Dark Wolf Nebula shows off a howling good view in awesome Halloween image (video)
Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking like a cosmic werewolf poised to grab an unwitting victim.
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North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile to space, reaches record altitude
North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday (July 12), shortly after complaining about purported spying activity by the United States.
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Dark matter might live in a dense haze around stellar corpses
The extreme qualities of neutron stars could mean these dead stellar remnants gather dense clouds of hypothetical particles called "axions" around them, potentially shedding light on dark matter.
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Fight space ghosts as an astronaut cat in spooky Halloween 2024 Google Doodle
Celebrate Halloween with a cosmic new Google Doodle, featuring an astronaut cat vanquishing creepy creatures across Earth's atmosphere.
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Comets, supermoon, northern lights, oh my! Amazing photos of the celestial Halloween treats of October 2024
A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the skywatching treats that haunted the night sky of October 2024.
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The Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 off pre-Black Friday
The near-3000 piece Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 off ahead of Black Friday and is one of its lowest price this year on Amazon.
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Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusual — suspects in this cosmic mystery
Dark matter makes up 85% of the stuff in the cosmos, but scientists have no idea what it is. On Dark Matter Day (Oct. 31), Space.com invites you to interrogate the suspects.
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Will China return Mars samples to Earth before the US does?
China has moved up its timeline for bringing Mars samples to Earth, aiming to do so as early as 2028 — long before the U.S. is slated to achieve this same ambitious goal.
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Can 'failed stars' have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.
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NASA astronaut snaps spooky photo of SpaceX Dragon capsule from ISS
The Dragon, named Freedom, is flying SpaceX's Crew-9 mission for NASA.
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Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin endorses Trump for president
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, endorsed Donald Trump in a statement released today (Oct. 30).
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Astrophotographer captures comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS growing an anti-tail (photos)
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.'
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (video, photos)
SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Oct. 30) from Florida's Space Coast.
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NASA announces 9 possible moon landing sites for Artemis 3 lunar mission
NASA has refined its list of potential landing sites near the moon's south pole for its Artemis 3 mission, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface no earlier than 2026.
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Strange green spots on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover (photo)
NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.
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Voyager 1 spacecraft phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981.
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Debris from satellite breakup threatens other spacecraft, animation shows
Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
The two cubesats will assist in the most detailed study ever of a binary asteroid.
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