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The best Disney-era Star Wars spaceships

After nearly a decade of brand-new Star Wars movies and shows under Disney, which are the coolest new starships flying across the galaxy?

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Rocket Lab selected to launch more hypersonic test vehicles for US military

The new 5-year contract that focuses on hypersonic technology is worth $1.45 billion.

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First look at space shuttle, Mission Control 2025 dollar coins from US Mint

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto coins to celebrate advancements made by Texas and Florida. The U.S. Mint has released designs for American Innovation dollars.

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UK approves 1st vertical rocket launch from Saxavord Spaceport

German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has taken a step towards a first launch by gaining a first-ever license to vertically launch an orbital rocket from mainland Europe.

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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites to orbit on 1st flight since Starship explosion (video)

SpaceX launched 21 of its Starlink internet satellites early Jan. 21, five days after a test flight of the company's Starship megarocket ended in an explosion.

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Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

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'We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.' President Trump wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mars

"Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts," Trump says.

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DC's new 'Superman Unlimited' comic lands prior to James Gunn's 'Superman' movie

A preview of DC Comics' new ongoing series coming in May, "Superman Unlimited"

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Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.'s sustainable development goals.

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'Heavy' dark matter would rip our understanding of the universe apart, new research suggests

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests.

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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."

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How President Trump could change NASA

The new Trump administration could upend NASA's priorities, reshaping the Artemis moon program, climate science funding and the role of commercial space players.

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'Silo' Season 2's explosive finale teases season 3 with a cliffhanger and a Pez dispenser

A recap of "Silo" Season 2's finale, "Into the Fire," and all its reveals and secrets exposed

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'Predator: Hunting Grounds' is the perfect template for another modern-day Predator movie

It took a few updates, but Predator: Hunting Grounds has become a notable asymmetrical multiplayer game with a refreshing and cohesive take on the sci-fi universe.

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Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

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Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

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How 'quantum foam' may have inflated the early universe

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

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World's largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)

The mighty telescope is expected to see its "first light" by 2028.

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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA's Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA's Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 144 —The great lunar armada

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

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Satellites watch 'ghost island' solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos)

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.

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World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to a new renewable energy project.

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SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from California (video, photos)

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast on Tuesday (Jan. 21).

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Step inside a virtual reality art piece inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope that introduced a new audience to gravitational lensing.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab to open next week after LA fires

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has come through the L.A. fires in one piece. It will open next week to employees who need to work on site.

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