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What if life on Venus is just life from Earth?

Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over the last few billion years.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket into orbit on 1st flight (video)

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket reached orbit on its first-ever flight early this morning (Jan. 16).

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Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today

NASA's Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6.5-hour-long spacewalk today (Jan. 16). Watch it live.

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Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

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Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvented space opera

How a kitsch "Star Wars" cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!

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The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

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Uncanny 'Alien: Romulus' Ian Holm CGI fixed for home release as director 'wasn't 100 percent happy'

Director Fede Alvarez spoke to Empire about fixing the controversial CGI of Rook in Alien: Romulus.

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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

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Saturn disappears behind the moon in stunning telescope photo

A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in front of Saturn, briefly hiding it from viewers on Earth.

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'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' finale leaves us asking 'what's next'?

In its final episode, Skeleton Crew sticks the landing with lots of action and some genuinely tense moments, but its answers are limited.

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An ancient 3-star system gave this 'blue lurker' star a turbo boost, scientists find

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

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The sun's magnetic field will flip soon. Here's what to expect.

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

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Strange multi-planet system proves not all hot Jupiter exoplanets are lonely giants

Hot Jupiters may not be the lonely giants scientists once thought they were.

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What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based company ispace. What's next for the two craft?

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SpaceX launching Starship Flight 7 on Jan. 16: Watch it live

SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket on Thursday (Jan. 16) at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

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SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (video, photos)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan. 15).

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Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.

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Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander

NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the surface of the moon.

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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera

The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its first image test.

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What's flying to the moon on ispace's Resilience lunar lander?

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.

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Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common in the cosmos than previously suspected. What could possibly hide such ravenous cosmic titans?

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Watch SpaceX launch 2 private moon landers on a single rocket early Jan. 15

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch moon landers built by Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early Wednesday (Jan. 15), and you can watch it live.

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Mars hides behind the Full Wolf Moon in gorgeous photos from around the world

People across the world captured awesome views of a large Full Wolf Moon and a mini Mars.

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