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A 'lost planet' may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test

Blue Origin's fourth New Glenn rocket exploded during a prelaunch engine test on Thursday night (May 28). It could be a big setback for the company and for NASA's moon ambitions.

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Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons systems.

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Andy Weir's 'The Martian' just got a deluxe edition to celebrate the book's 15-year anniversary, and it's a stunner

Before 'Project Hail Mary,' Weir wrote the quintessential space saga now being given a stunning makeover

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NASA is hatching a 'fast-paced plan' to boost this space telescope. But first, they'll have to find it

NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its Swift space telescope will be this fall, so that a private spacecraft can meet up with the observatory and boost its altitude.

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how

Observations of "Little Red Dot" ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy? The shocking answer could represent a complete paradigm shift.

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Astrophotographer spends 115 hours capturing Horsehead Nebula in striking detail with backyard telescope

The Horsehead Nebula cuts a dark silhouette against glowing clouds in the constellation Orion.

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Astronaut captures aurora magic from the ISS | Space photo of the day for May 28, 2026

This is one spectacular photograph.

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What's next for SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after its historic debut flight?

SpaceX's "V3" Starship megarocket did pretty well on its debut flight last week. What's next for the powerful next-gen vehicle?

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How to catch the perfect full moonrise — just in time for the Blue Moon show on May 30

A rare second full moon arrives this week — and if you get the timing wrong, you'll miss its magic. Here's how to plan it precisely.

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Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, suggesting that these events and their black hole engines are powerful cosmic particle accelerators.

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Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a single slow asteroid impact

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study suggests.

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Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev worked to install and retrieve science experiments while on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

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China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'

China is melding its robotic Chang'e lunar probe activities with the country's human spaceflight program in an effort to land astronauts on the moon by 2030.

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FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12 'mishap'

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has declared the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 vehicle a mishap and is requiring an investigation before the megarocket can fly again.

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What is Star City, the secret Cold War cosmonaut training town in Apple TV's new 'For All Mankind' spinoff?

Here's everything you need to know about the forbidden city.

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Every Lego Star Wars set released in 2026 that I wish I had

Lego is going all out with Star Wars this year, from awesome mid-sided AT-AT through to a whole range of super-interactive Smart Brick-enabled models. Here are the sets I absolutely have to add to my Lego Star Wars collection.

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3 planets will line up in the night sky tonight: Here's where to look for the mini planetary parade

Don't miss Jupiter, Venus and Mercury create a dazzling line in the western sky at sunset tonight.

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Laser beams blast through the cosmos | Space photo of the day for May 27, 2026

Fear not, these lasers are just doing science.

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Watch NASA reveal its Artemis 3 astronauts today (and get a live moon program update)

On June 9, NASA will reveal the astronauts who will fly on the Artemis 3 docking mission in Earth orbit next year.

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'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening of a single envelope.

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The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they've found its remains

Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that eventually became part of our Milky Way.

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Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts take 5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS today

Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (May 27), and you can watch the action live.

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Artemis moon base will cover 'hundreds of square miles' with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says

NASA envisions its moon base covering hundreds of square miles, and hopping scout drones may mark the facility's perimeter. The agency just awarded $1 billion in contracts to get the ball rolling.

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'Masters of the Universe' gets a final trailer, and it's a perfect blend of nostalgia, sci-fi battles, and muscles (video)

'Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world. I'm gonna fight for it.'

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