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The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought

The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its surface might suggest, a new study finds.

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Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis

The disagreement in the rate of expansion of the universe, the Hubble tension, could arise from the fact Earth sits in an under-dense supervoid region of space.

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Watch the sun unleash 'extremely rare' solar storm in explosive eruption (video)

All three eruptions were not Earth-directed.

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'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' episode 4: What happened on At Achrann?

Still from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew TV series. A disheveled girl with long hair is wearing a long-sleeved shirt and some shoulder armor. She is holding a T-shaped piece of metal.

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China launches 1st set of spacecraft for planned 13,000-satellite broadband constellation (photo)

A Long March 5B rocket launched 10 big broadband satellites to orbit on Dec. 16, beginning the assembly of China's Guowang ("national network") megaconstellation.

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Chinese astronauts conduct record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)

Two Chinese astronauts spent more than nine hours outside the nation's Tiangong space station on Dec. 16 and Dec. 17, beating the old EVA duration record by 10 minutes.

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Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth

Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.

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Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth in March 2025 after new NASA, SpaceX delay

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule.

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SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 test flight gets FAA launch license. But when will it fly?

The FAA issued a launch license for SpaceX's upcoming Starship Flight 7, clearing the way for the company's next launch of the world's largest rocket from South Texas.

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SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas

SpaceX is hoping to officially make its Starbase launch site a new city in South Texas.

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SpaceX test-fires Starship spacecraft again ahead of Flight 7 launch (video)

SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, practicing an in-space engine burn.

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You ain’t seen nothing yet! 'The Outer Worlds 2' gets wild new trailer at The Game Awards

A new trailer for Obsidian Entertainment's "The Outer Worlds 2" was released at TGA 2024

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Webb mail: US Priority Mail stamps to again star deep space images in 2025

The universe of U.S. postage stamps featuring James Webb Space Telescope imagery is set to expand again in 2025. The U.S. Postal Service revealed its Priority Mail and Express flat rate stamps.

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'Edge of Space': Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video)

A new trailer for "Edge of Space," a short film about a daring X-15 pilot flying the rocket-powered experimental plane higher than any other piloted winged vehicle other than the space shuttle.

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Astronomers discover 1st binary stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope to discover the first binary stars around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

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'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' featurette reveals the magic behind the massive stop-motion Mama Crab (video)

A pair of new behind-the-scenes videos for "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew"

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SpaceX launches 2 mPOWER satellites from Florida on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader (video)

SpaceX launched two communication satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Dec. 17) on the second leg of a spaceflight doubleheader.

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SpaceX launches 6th batch of next-gen US spy satellites from California (video)

SpaceX launched the sixth batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the NRO this morning (Dec. 17) from California's central coast.

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NASA astronaut Suni Williams poses with adorable tentacle-armed Astrobee robot on ISS (photo)

An Astrobee robotic free-flyer with tentacle-like arms was tested in a demonstration experiment aboard the space station.

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Meet Endurance, a pioneering NASA moon rover designed to survive the frigid lunar night

NASA has begun blueprinting the Endurance rover to traverse the gigantic South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, a wonderland of promising geological surprises.

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James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)

A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own Milky Way galaxy may have looked like back then.

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'Dune: Prophecy' 'In Blood, Truth:' Tula plays Frankenstein and Desmond's twisted origins exposed

A recap of HBO/Max's "Dune: Prophecy" Episode 5, "In Truth, Blood"

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Watch SpaceX Starship test fire engines ahead of flight 7 launch (video)

SpaceX fired up its next Starship for an engine test before the rocket's next launch to space.

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SpaceX’s 31st Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth with splashdown off Florida coast

SpaceX's 31st robotic Dragon cargo capsule splashed down off the Florida coast today (Dec. 17), a day after undocking from the International Space Station.

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1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise gamma-ray explosion

The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope spotted an unexpected explosion from the same supermassive black hole.

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