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Latest from Space.comby Leonard David13h ago
China's moon exploration program is readying an ambitious robotic mission, one composed of an orbiter, a lander, a rover, a hopper, and a wide range of international experiments including a...
57%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Charles Q. Choi14h ago
Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation, a new study finds.
58%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd15h ago
LOS ANGELES – On a Saturday evening in Los Angeles, I found myself watching acclaimed actor Elizabeth Banks sing Tom Petty songs along with her fellow actors while writer/director David Wain played...
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SPOILERS AHEAD! ANYONE YET TO WATCH "LEVEL-FIVE TRANSPORTER ACCIDENT" SHOULD PROCEED WITH CAUTION TO AVOID VIOLATING TEMPORAL PRIME DIRECTIVES.
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Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured new, stunning imagery flying low over a geological region of the Red Planet shaped by ancient waterflow billions of years ago.
55%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd20h ago
The "Eye of Africa" swirls across Mauritania in a hypnotizing snapshot captured from space. What is it?
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The countdown is on for the deep partial lunar eclipse of Aug. 27-28. Over the next week, we'll be bringing you the latest eclipse news, viewing tips as well as live updates throughout eclipse...
Latest from Space.comby Mike Wall1d ago
Rocket Lab launched a private Japanese satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), adding to a growing constellation of Earth-observing spacecraft.
57%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Stefanie Waldek1d ago
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
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NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn't overcome its own problems in orbit.
56%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Rahul Rao1d ago
If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how clothes and living conditions can rapidly turn rather smelly. Imagine that happening in a confined spacecraft.
58%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Jeff Spry1d ago
Despite our love for little "Baby Yoda", "The Mandalorian and Grogu" wasn't the thrilling "Star Wars" feature film to drag fans back to theaters when it dropped back in May.
56%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Robert Lea1d ago
Astronomers have discovered that a jet of plasma erupting from a distant supermassive black hole at near-light-speed is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter.
59%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Leonard David1d ago
NASA's veteran moon-circling spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has imaged the impact site of that errant Falcon 9 upper stage. The photos were taken on Aug. 11 and Aug.
57%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Brett Tingley1d ago
A mysterious incident over the southern Indian Ocean forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around due to an unnamed hazard in space. According to several New Zealand-based news outlets, a U.S.
58%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Harry Bennett1d ago
The world of science fiction started with the written word, long before it hit the silver screen.
55%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd1d ago
People around the world enjoyed stellar views with last week's total solar eclipse. And the day after we looked up to see the moon obscuring out sun, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looked up to see...
58%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Mike Wall2d ago
China just notched another big spaceflight milestone. The Beijing startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug.
59%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Jeff Spry2d ago
Ringed worlds seem to be a fertile source of science fiction material, whether it be in sci-fi master Larry Niven's circular alien constructs in his "Ringworld" novels, the spherical megastructures...
57%plop scoreLatest from Space.comby Robert Z. Pearlman2d ago
Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — worked outside of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (Aug 18), becoming temporary TV...
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